You earned a new subscriber Phil. Absolutely delightful content! Apart from being incredibly educational of course. Please please don't stop making videos!

I wasn’t an alcoholic until I discovered Lagavulin... it’s nice to have a hobby..

I'm born and bred in Scotland and a whisky drinker all my adult life and you even educated me, well done mate. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇿

I am from Brazil, a true malt lover and we face all sorts of trouble finding different malts and accepting to pay the abusive prices. I will do a whisky tour around Scotland between April 6-17th and this video came in handy. Cheers

Another excellent video, Phil. Your content is so professional and packed with information. Keep up the great work, mate.

Great video dude! A few pals and I were lucky enough to get some whisky training from a Macallan rep while working at a hotel in Perthshire about 10 years ago. It was great to taste different regions side by side and note the contrast in flavour (Scapa stays in my mind because it was salty in comparison to the others). We had to do our shift in the restaurant half-blootered afterwards though!

Thank you so much for this video. I am in love with Glenlivet and Macallan and now I know that I should look closely into Speyside region.

What a wonderful video. Thank you for guiding us through the regions.

Really helpful starters guide. Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend 👍

Great video! Very helpful, well explained and straight forward enough to remember for a long time!

Glad I tumbled upon this. After randomly buying bottles not really knowing what I was tasting I got onto working my way through Kilchoman whiskies, I feel I should expand my tastes but also so happy with these guys. Nice to listen to what you've shared here

Mate, you channel is incredible. Keep your good work and encyclopedical videos. Cheers from Brazil!

Keep going Phil! This videos will be a classic in the whisky community in no time!

Outstanding video, very well done!

Great video yet again! Keep it up man looking forward to the next one. This could easily be a segment on a food and drink show 🤙

This is a great video. Great structure and very informative. Thank you

I have experienced just a few Scotch whiskies. Those few have followed the regions of Scotland so for me, it has been useful to know particular types of Scotch. However, the more I get exposed to whiskey, I am finding that certain flavors repeat and are shared across the different types. Thanks for the video content. Subscribed!

While I was in college, I worked at a private country club in Southern California. I bartended for many years, but quickly found a passion for wine, scotch, port and many other spirits. I worked with local distributors to craft tasting events for the members; mostly wine and Scotch tastings. One of the best ways to learn about any spirit is to attend tastings. It's there where you gain a technical understanding of how a specific Scotch is crafted, what makes them unique and aspects of the distillery itself. There is another equally important benefit to attending tastings- the people. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an elitist who invents new adjectives to describe the taste on the palette - "wow, this has notes of a Louis Vuitton handbag...with a touch of charred plum that has been lighted bar-b-qued." Everyone at a tasting is open to learning, and that is what makes it special. It's important to hear it from other people; what they like, what they don't like, the stories, the recommendations, the immediate friendships and commonality...it's sharing your enjoyment. Anyways, well done video Phil. I could tell you got a little buzzed there towards the end...haha. The fruits of labor. :) Subscribed.

That was incredibly well done. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.

Hi Phil. Thankyou for all of the interesting and helpful information. As a Novice to Whisky drinking all of the information was very beneficial. I look forward to checking out your other KZfaq entries. Thanks again. Please keep on doing what you do.

I love that one can see the effect of the elixir as the presentation proceeds after a few swigs :)

Beautiful explanation of the scotch varieties by region.. nice job buddy .. looking forward for more informative videos .

That was excellent and easy to understand!

Knowing the region is essential if one is a fan (or not) of mainly Islays, a worshiper of the gods of peat; less so with t'others. Informative video, thanks.

Super helpful and well done video, cheers!

We’ve been slowly getting into scotch, this video was very helpful understanding the different regions in Scotland. Now we have a better understanding of which region we should explore first. Cheers!

As a first time watcher I can’t help but notice how your “yes and no” intonation and expression is so similar to James Hoffman, great content btw.

Great video, thank you, Phil.

Thank you for this explanation. I am book marking this to send to people who have questions.

Really nice, video. Yea I guess knowing the main regions helps set your expectations in general. There will ALWAYS be exceptions as you said but I enjoy knowing something about the region the whisky I am drinking is coming from. Looking forward to another video, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the education on whiskey regions Phil, great content. Have subbed 👍🏾

I love your style, Phil. You have the perfect disposition for being in front of the camera. Some are too boring while others…(seem to be) too into them selves. You’ve earned my attention and …subscribing now! 😊

High quality stuff man. Keep it up. Subbed.

Great video, awesome edits and intro, keep up the great work

I’m very new to whisky drinking (literally two months), this coincides with me moving to Falkirk, which amazingly has two very new distilleries. Really enjoyed this video and discovering the whole new world

this is awesome man!! keep it up!

Great stuff, thanks mate!

Amazing content 👏 Thanks

Hi Phil, just ran across this video and gave it a watch. Nicely done sir. I enjoyed this overview and actually learned a few things I didn’t know. Cheers!

Excellent video, very informative! Just getting into whiskey and this was a good watch.

Good video. Great information and I appreciate the quality of your video production and audio. Well done. I have subscribed.

I grew up in Scotland and didn’t know hardly any of this. Great video, thank you!

Love your work Phil, absolute treat to the novice whisky connaisseur :)

PERFECT video! Thank you!

The Glenlivet 15 year in French Oak is wonderful.

Really cool video thanks mate

This was terrific, thank you

Great episode man 👏👏👏👍

Nice scenery, lovely country, cheers🎉 something to look forward too.

Excellent overview. I wish I had heard this when I started. Lol, I bought bottle after bottle tasting my way through the country. Was a long time bourbon guy, so it was fun getting to know a totally different spirt. Ardbeg is a game changing pour, what a beautiful whisky. Great video!

Just subscribed, great explanation and coverage.

Nicely done Phil. I’m having a lagavulin 16 as I watch this

Really awesome info! Definitely gets a subscription from me!

Mate excellent video! You got yourself another subscriber!

Hi, thanks a lot for these great videos. Super! keep going!

Hey Phil! Just had this video recommended to me, clicked it, thought 'oh sweet that's a Kiwi', then realised 'wait a second I know that guy'! Loving the content, instant subscribe!

Excellent primer!

Phil. Fantastic video. I’m a wine 🍷 guy and no little about Whiskey 🥃 but totally get the notion of knowing the different regions and flavors to expect. How did you make those maps? They were slick. Great piece of editing!

Great video!

Subscribed. Great video. Learnt a heap from this.

Just discovered this video on my Recommended feed. Good stuff man! Also, nice pun. 😂

The more you drink Islay whiskies, the more it gets to you. Its like a bitter-sweet relationship.

Very well done video.

The content is so crisp, also have to say the content taken from other videos was so awesome!!

Great stuff Phil. Probably the most satisfying subscribing I’ve done in a while. Keep it up. I’m a huge sherry cask fan but trying to direct my pallet towards the more “Islay” flavours.

🎉I just got one from the ballot!! First time after entering many.. chuffed to bits.

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Great vid!

excellently explained.

Great stuff thanks for sharing.

this was life changing

Just discovered your channel... very accessible and well presented. Subscribed, 👍

Great presentation, Thank you.

This is really interesting, I haven't "studied" whisky at all. But over the years of trying different whisky, my favourites have all been from the speyside region.

Thank you for the trip through the regions

Great video. helpful. 👌

Subscribed only after 1 video. So useful

They also make The Botanist Gin on Islay. It's not cheap, but it's pretty good as they infuse it with botanicals from the island itself. It's made at the Bruichladdich Distillery, and although my favourite tipple is Ardbeg, I do occasionally treat myself to a bottle. Enjoyed the video.

Great lecture, just subscribed.

Very interesting and to the point.Subscribed......cheers from canada.

A new subscriber and loving the channel. I’m fairly new to whisky and finding it very informative. My favourites are Tomintoul 10, Jura Journey & Glenfiddich 12 yr old.

Excellent video. Thanks for providing ground floor advice for those interested in exploring Scotch and it's variety.

Interesting stuff 🥃👍

I went to Scotland last year and learned a lot of your stuff here, the main malter in Scotland is in Inverness and most single malts source their malted barley from this factory - you see a huge plume of steam bellowing from the chimneys of the inverness malting factory- and it is used as a windsock by pilots arriving into Inverness airport - close to Culloden field - a battle that is quite infamous as a betrayal of the clans by the English crown. Anyway - loved the content, I am an Ardbeg fan and love the peated flavours rather than the sweeter Speyside distilleries. Would love to see a little more on individual distilleries, much history and loads of family/politics are involved.

Great video and thank you for the lesson/education. I could have used this 20 years ago😂 Cheers 🥃

Very informative video. Currently a fan of Islay Scotch and am starting to broaden my tastes by getting into Speysides and Highlands. Highland Park 12 is one of my favorite non Islay Scotches so far.

It's incredible it takes an ozzy to make me finally decide I must visit Scotland. What a beautiful place that's only 2 hours drive away from me. Very interesting vid. Cheers mate!

Great video, even taught a Scottish whisky drinker a thing or two there... Though that's not to hard to be fair. My way of explaining it to my American cousins is, things like Grouse and Bells are the "coca cola of whisky" Laphroaig is like the root beer one 😂

Yep, great content and extremely well presented. Cheers mate! (Just a bloke who drinks whiskey from across the pond). 😁🥃

Really enjoyed the video Phil! Never knew there was so much variation in taste profiles by region. I recently tried Laphroaig and the peaty, smoky flavor was quite interesting.

Great video

Good video that, done a good bit of maintenance on some of the distilleries listed

As an American bourbon/ whiskey drinker, I a beginning to expand my palate to the different basis of whiskey/whisky. It takes time to broaden our minds on the differences and the benefits. It is so challenging to try and accept the differences, but that much more fun.

Very nice useful information tnx dear

Great video very informative

Lot off knowledge ❤

Well the region is a good indicator. You brough it to the exact point it is not a guarante but it helps. So really good Video and explanation. Love from Switzerland cheers

Thank you for this video. I have always enjoyed a glass of whiskey but it is only recently I really want to know amd understand whiskey. So, i am at the beginning of my journey and this video will help me on my way. I am interested to know why people gave you a thumbs down for this video? I will be viewing many more of your videos, Phil. Thank you

Great vid.

Speyside all the way... fell in love with Glenfiddich and stumbled on Glenlivet and then McCallan.. love em all, not knowing they are all from the same region. Thanks for the video..