Since discovering Ralfy I honestly haven’t bought a bad bottle of whisky. For that I thank you sir.

The algorithm found me this channel a couple of weeks ago. I've been binge watching & have been inspired to start my single malt journey. Best wishes to you Ralfy.

This is, of course, something that I've heard many times over the last years with Ralfy, but I'm immensely happy to see so many new enthusiasts who are discovering Ralfy these days. Thank you one more time, old friend, for everything that you've done for this community!

Very sound advice which is applicable to so many of life's journeys aside from whiskey.

Thank you Ralfy excellent advise as always of the whisky community 👏👏👏

Thank you, Ralfy. I am about to enter my 6th decade on this planet and have only just very recently embarked on my whisk(e)y journey. I truly appreciate your sage words of insightful wisdom. They help this malty traveler in my journey to economically discover the joys of a truly wonderful pour. Cheers!

I've always been a moderately- to firmly-impatient person, so this journey is a true test for me. I think what I need to do is to sit down with no distractions and pour a flight of various drams and compare. I did that once a while back, was a big help. But haven't done it recently. I do think I'm less impatient than I used to be but that comes with age I suppose. On music, it does help me at times to clear my mind so it can be more open to distinguishing flavors.

Perfect guide to becoming a whisky connoisseur ! 💪🏽

Thank you Ralphy, just starting out again with whiskey, after 20 or so years, and have learned more in 2 days from you than ever before

Interesting Malt Mention after the cat appearance last Ralfy video.

Sage advice as usual Ralfy. Well done.

What a wonderful collection of thoughts, glad I found your channel on my whisky journey!

Sorry to do this mate, was going to get the 12yr Edradour Caledonia but after the review on the indi Signatory, I made a change and I'm blown away it is a belter and keeps getting better. So after the three P's add L for listen , nice one and enjoy the season.

I love listening to you and enjoy single malt whisky!

Very good advice, Ralfy. You brought up some points I've never considered but make perfect sense. Cheers. 🥃

Thanks Ralfy, Happy Holidays! Good looking chap on your glencairn glass! Cheers

Profound. Thank you.

Lots to savour there Ralfy; a melange of thought provoking, malt inspired wisdom from the bothy. I whole-heartedly agree with your observations and comments....there is joy to be had on each individual journey; I hope many more tune in for these 'pearls', as your reviews and extras are the very essence of a good road trod. Keep 'em coming Ralfy 👍.

Hi Ralfy. I could see your breath as you're talking during the video in the bothy. It must be chilly. Time for the fireplace to be on mate. Don't want to catch a chill.

Thank you Ralfy for what you do. You’ve been an amazing guide on our whisky journey and we’ve given you a special malt mention on drampath. Thank you

I often look up your reviews or other trusted channel reviews of the wiskeys I own and first enjoy them by my self and then with the review, to try and understand the wiskey better

Bad liquors usually have overt raw alcohol flavor, green under aged notes, heat, or a noticeable rough edge to the flavor profile that disrupts it. However, there are liquors that do none of those, yet are bad because they are simply too “smooth” and flavorless and/or sweet to deliver an interesting experience. This is how I have come to view things.

Another quality video. BRAVO!

Thank you! You discripe a way we should more follow! Thats more than Whisky Reviews, thats philoshophic. Thanks for your x-tras!

My 2 cents Ralfi = brushing teeth and mouth cleansing before whisky tasting goes a long way towards helping decipher details within a whisky as well as among whiskies. Cheers.

…..and loads of pennies to support the journey.

ooh, that one got me Ralfy, well percolated

Wise words.👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you for those words of encouragement. Now I feel blessed to have an average palate.

Not sure I agree completely as I could truly work through a very complex whisky prior to the virus smacking my sense of smell and now it is far more difficult and surely I am missing things and thus the experience is not as ‘full’. “Just sayin’”.

Your comment about perfume reminded me of Hannibal Lector - a character with highly attuned senses. In all seriousness though, I think your general approach is useful in any kind of sensory appreciation. I know how difficult/rewarding it is to learn a musical instrument for example. Brilliant philosophical commentary as usual. Thanks Ralphy!

We're drinking whisky here ralfy not practicing the viola. A lot of practice for the viola, not so much for the whisky. Patience is a virtue of course. With a little practice, not a lot, and some patience the perseverance should come naturally. Proper equipment then becomes important. A good instrument makes for a nice experience. P.S. It looks like the bothy could use a small fire in the stove. Thanks ralfy. I hope your holiday season is merry and bright.

Hi Ralfy where can I purchase that Glencairn glass with your head on it like the one in this vlog ???

Hmm, if you go to a whisky tasting you are offered a limited number of glasses and a speaker will talk you through them. They can be informative and enjoyable and they are reasonably affordable. If you go to a whisky show, such as the one that the Honourable Artillery Company used to host, you pay your money and go in and it's up to you to find things to drink. You are on the clock say 2pm to 5pm. You also have to get the stallholders to provide you with a sample. Some of them just spend time chatting to their pals and neglect the customers. Rated whisky stands also get mobbed with people. So a mixed experience. I refuse to pay a three figure sum for a whisky show like a pal of mine. However, he did say stallholders were more attentive and he himself was spitting out whiskies so as not to get inebriated. Me, I will just stick to tastings.

I am KEEN on this!!!

My journey is real slow, tasting the differences and especially putting it into words I find extremely difficult. I have only reached the stage of I know when I like a dram and when I don't.

sage advice

I know whisky is one of the best hobbies in the world, but I´m afraid it would destroy my wealth and health, so I decided to miss my whisky journey...

Marketing Idea: For some younger entrepreneurial person. What if there was a scent package of the various smells of good whisky? Not whisky itself but examples of these smells. Maybe packaged as IDK swatches of cloth or cotton balls or something? Just what is 'malty'? What exactly does this or that fruit smell like? Yes we can do this on our own but it's hit and miss. With this 'scent package' we could quickly train ourselves to recognize the individual scents and flavors. Personally I'm scenting/tasting all kinds of things in my whisky experimentation but mostly I don't know what they are. I do sense what is good. I mean pleasant or really tasty. But I can not single out the individual elements.

ralfy, looks like you tube deleted my post about Mike Rowe's ( Dirty Jobs ) new whiskey and the story behind it. Great story. It's in the Washington Examiner paper online.

Glengoyne 10, and Glenkinchie 12 were my biggest upsets to date. They both smell and even taste like tequila. From the first sips, to the end of the bottles. 👎🏼

The sensible Ralfy

Would be interested in your thoughts on Aerstone 10 (sea or land cask).

I think the malt mention was repeated from the previous video.

Ralfy do you always put water in your dram ?

Bluffers….so true

Hey Ralfy, what do you think of whisky tasting courses, like Edinburgh Whisky Academy? Worth or just waste of time & money? Is there any recommendation of yours? Thx

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Not trying to be critical, but you misspelt perseverance. Please take no offence, I love your channel.

hhhhhhhwhy :D

is this where it's at now ? The channel is just pandering to people coming into whisky ? I see why more and more long time viewers are no longer watching. It's almost insulting and as if they are being spoken to as a children and have little awareness. Ralfy is a good place to start but I don't know if it is really a place anymore for people with years of experience. I guess it's pandering to new watchers in order to get even more Patreon subs. I much prefer the Ralfy of a decade ago

I started my whisky journey with a teeling, needed some time to adapt to whisky in general, after that i got a bunna 12, and got around it. Next was Edradour Caledonia, compared that to some other whiskies, like glenlivet 12, singleton 12. Never enjoyed them, they were so boring. From there on i got a quinta ruban, glen scotia, glencadam, mortlach, and nowadays osbscure bottles in addition, like auchroisk, linkwood etc. id say im a pretty good cook and made alot of recipes myself and i always do this by smell, you can smell what fits in cooking. so i got bored of tasteless whisky very fast, always wanting to seek the next weird one^^. i do enjoy good standard bottles, and i try to test my smell and taste with some blind tastings, in food or whisky. You can also help with your mind memory by a mind room, or with synesthesia. Having certain smells, tastes, voices, described with a colour, which helps remembering things. Glenmorangie has for example for me a bright pastel orange character, and if you encounter a similar taste, you know very fast that its near the same colour as glenmorangie :D