I recently got a new job in Japan, and with it a big promotion so I decided to treat myself. Found it fitting that my favorite brand recently has been WhistlePig and then I saw this: Samurai Scientist.

Attached File

HAI!




Congrats on the promotion, hope the whiskey is only bettered by the new job!

Congrats on the job.  Debated buying a bottle of that on Christmas Eve, but just couldn't pull the trigger.

I've said it before, but congrats on the new job and enjoy the bottle!

That’s when I pulled the trigger.

I’m excited to get it and try it. Hopefully it doesn’t convince me I need to buy the rest of the Boss Hog bottles.

Received the bottle today.

Had my first taste of it. It’s closer to scotch overall taste than rye which I wasn’t expecting but it’s damn delicious. At $500 per bottle I won’t be buying all the time but I really like it. I’m looking forward to enjoying it for months to come and maybe another bottle of Boss Hog for my next big life event.

Attached File

Nice! I’ll be by in an hour for a taste!

It's a long flight to Japan, but come on over.

Just bring tequila and mezcal. I cannot survive on Jose Cuervo gold

I will bring all the good mezcal if you can guide me to the best sushi.

On second thought, my buddy who owned a really good sushi bar in CDM said sushi is $$$$$ in Japan. Probably outa my league...

Mezcal is booming in japan right now. It's a huge import all the sudden.

Last time I was here, my then gf now wife and I ate at Sukiyabashi Jiro for a meager $500 each. It was something. I just stick to sushi-go rounds now lol




I hope so, I can't find a single bottle locally. Also, even more sadness is that Clase Azul has no Japan distributor.

That junk is so pumped full of glycerin, sweeteners, and flavor additives I don't know if japan would let it come in anyways. You're definitely not missing out on anthing there.

But it's so good and not just because of the fancy bottles.

It's a terrible quality tequila in a pretty bottle that relies on the maximum legal amount of additives to create a sweet flavor that taste nothing like tequila. If the CRT changed the regulation tomorrow to bar flavor additives no one would buy a bottle of it ever again.

The guy who started it actually tried to launch a terrible mixto first with a sombrero for the lid and it didn't sell. So he went to school and finished his masters in marketing and said he wanted to focus on a perception of luxury. It's all curated to make people think they have something nice. Give a proper tequila a try and if you still want on the sweet side check out el tesoro paradiso or tears of llarona. Both completely additive free naturally made tequilas that are amazing

It may not be "pure" but it's still tasty. The bottles are easily 100% marketing. To be fair though, I mix them into cocktails.

Tequila has an unfortunate side to it that is really hard to address coming from whiskey, and that is the legally allowed additives and how poorly they are defined/regulated.

If i buy a bourbon, I know there is no colorant or flavoring. If i buy a scotch, I know that the most they can add is caramel coloring made only out of sugar. If I buy an armagnac, I know that they can add boise which is regulated in only this percentage, and caramel coloring. Tequila is allowed to have 1% of it's volume made up of additives that are cleared as food safe. So that includes sweeteners that are 10K times more sweet than sugar. That includes Glycerin to add a rich mouthfeel to young tequila to make it seem like it was aged longer or better made. That includes ammonia based food coloring to add dark coloring to look like it was aged. And to me almost worst of all, it includes actual flavorants. Vanilla concentrate made out of petroleum byproducts, cupcake flavoring, even cherry and cola concentrates used for flavoring large batches of soda at the industrial level. That is why you'll see me be so vocal about things like clase azul and adictivo. These are products pumped full of questionable ingredients that are used to completely overpower the influence of a plant that grew for 7-15 years. Those same additives could be added to vodka and give nearly the same flavor. None of us would imagine spending hundreds of dollars on cupcake vodka, but people do all the time for cheaply made cupcake tequila.

El Tesoro Paradiso is one of my all time favorite tequilas. By far the best blend and truly shows off the potential of tequila. I used to be able to find it around here but sadly it is no longer available locally. I need to find it somewhere.

Nah all good. Discussion of all high quality liquor is appreciated.