Blends. There is a certain segment of the whisky community who consider all blends to not only be inferior to every single malt but so bad that they should never be poured. That's okay since it means more Compass Box for me. These are the same people who will go on and on about some no name independent bottler's rendition of a whisky from a distillery who sends 99% of their product to be blended but they wouldn't ever try that blend.

Next level. I said "Oh FUCK" when you put ice in the Springbank, then almost threw my phone across the room when you poured the Coke. And the sleeveless black tee was the icing on the poop cake. It was like watching a 3 car pileup involving a dump truck, a hearse, and one of those short school buses. The thumb nail was one of your finest too. Good job... I guess.😂

Geoff, I have a true story about #2. My ex-girlfriend and her lousy boyfriend once stole my unopened bottle of whisky from my cabinet, which was my treasure. They later told me that it tasted okay, but was not their favourite. It was none other than a bottle of 3rd release of Bruichladdich Black Art 🤯! I was so pissed!

How or what others drink/pronounce their whisky I couldnt give a crap about...to each their own! "5 things that whisky drinkers hate" should be; 1) More tariffs/taxes by governments/countries 2) Distillers raising prices just because a bottle has become popular 3) Idiots buying mass quantities of limited or allocated whisky bottles to sell it at ridiculous amounts of profit 4) Regionalization or limited exportation of better bottles and allocated bottles to some countries 5) Limiting production when distillers have the production capacity to make more, when they have products that sell out quickly.

Man that first bit with the ‘Springbank’ made me genuinely anxious! Really funny video. I love the whisky illuminati. Made me laugh out loud!

Triggered at 0:25 lmao ; & at 0:43 & again at 1:08.... okay you win haha. Loved this episode, well done mate :)

Few years back I have a cask strength whisky which depleting so fast that I doubt my parents could have drank that much. Finally realised that it’s my mum! She used it to ‘wash’ the rashes on her leg.her leg. Her reasoning being this drink is high on alcohol level and alcohol can kill bacteria. I gave her the whole bottle and till date I couldn’t get out of this incident..will never drink this specific brand again.

Great video I was cringing in the beginning I’m visiting my sister and brought her a bottle of Johnny Walker blue a hazel burn 10 and a Hibiki harmony and she added water to everything but I love her so I didn’t crack her in the head lol.

Great list Geoff! I DEFINITELY experience most of what you listed. Sadly, I have been hurt (I won’t say “butt hurt” because that’s vulgar) when I have poured a favorite to a friend only to have them say “eh, that was ok”. Conversely, I have tasted some highly aged stuff that really wasn’t special at all (IMO). In those cases I just say thank you and keep my opinion to myself. Snobs rarely know they are snobs. While having scotch discussions (yes, that’s a thing), I have had a friend say “that’s a one string guitar” regarding a lack of complexity in a scotch. I DO NOT CARE!!!! I LOVE that “one string” and don’t give a crap if it isn’t a freaking London Philharmonic Orchestra of complexity. Lastly, it’s ok to buy a budget, low ABV scotch. I enjoy those as an “easy dram” just as much as I do a high ABV, high aged stated, expensive dram. Anyway, my rant is over. I feel better now.

I hate it when someone pretends to be a whisky expert (but they don't know what "Non-Chill Filtered" means).😂

I took that sunglasses intro personally 🤣

I could not agree more with all your points. Very nice video again 😊👍🏻 btw the intro was too damn hilarious 😂😂 probably you should start a comedy channel 😀

🤣🤣🤣🤣Very funny video indeed. How about people you offer a nice whisky and they chuck it in one gulp without even tasting it? That happened to me once, a friend of mine (he's still my friend by the way), who drinks Fireball, wanted to try a whisky zo I gave him a Aberlour 12 NCF. He looks at the glass, doesn't smell the whisky, chucks it back and says "it tastes like wet wood" I'm like 😳😳😳. I made a deal with him that I would do a proper tasting with him some day 😂😂😂😂

That opening sequence made my laugh out loud.. nicely done dude :-)

When its really hot outside, ice in a single malt tastes sooo nice. Or maybe i should say; really cold? I also want to state a fact... Everything tastes better outdoors. To pour a dram in the woods, idealy by a creek is heaven. The taste almost doubles in enjoyability.

😂 The whisky illuminati lizard eyes ahahaha Great video as always!

the ice and coke made me pause immediately and hit the like button. After this it can only get better.

Other things snooty scotch drinkers hate…drinking out of anything that isn’t a Glencairn, drinking before thoroughly nosing, and blends (although that seems to be changing….thanks Compass Box!!)

I laughed out loud at the intro! And I was surprised how serious you got later. But generally, you're right: basically all attitudes (and their counterparts) you describe are understandable and all of them can be found and observed easily. And actually, the good thing is, if you're intelligent, you can laugh about them all - EVEN if you can see yourself in them!

Geoff, you surpassed yourself with this video. Nicely done.

At least you are making the Coke taste better 😃

Great video. Please note that Scots Gaelic is pronounced, Gah-lic. Irish Gaelic is pronounced Gay-lic. loving your humour and great taste in whisky. Love from Loch Lomond, Scotland.

Hello Geoff, thank you very much for almost making me wetting my pants @ the first 1:30 of the Video. 😂 Great Dry Humor as always. (Pssshht🤐 I the hot Summertime i really love a nice Bourbon matured Single Malt getting mixed with Ginger Ale and a Dash of Lime Juice, served with Ice. Its deliciously refreshing.)😅 Greetings from Germany 😎🤘

Well...as long as no Springbank was harmed.😅 Some might call the intro a capital offense. Great stuff, Geoff! 👍

This video should be saved for posterity's sake for all the future generations of whisky drinkers to be able to see 😁🥃🥃 Probably my favorite video from you so far Geoff! It needs to go the "Hall of Fame" of the whisky videos online! 🏆🥃🥃 Great work my friend! 🤣🤣😁😁

This should be a series, as there's so much more things we hate 😂

My morning was tough one, but this video made my day better 😂 number 2 is me 😅

You had me LOLing with that intro!

Awesome Video! Been trying not to laugh out too loudly! 🙂Very entertaining!

People forget, it's just a tasty beverage. Nothing more, nothing less.

G your intro deadpan humour with the Springbank being doused in ice was crossing the line then adding coke you blasted thru the line! Fantastic stuff!

😂😂😂😂😂 Perfect video, so funny and all of these are 100% true. Thx Geoff

One of my most laugh out loud videos of yours to date...great job

The intro was hilarious, but you should have drank that Springbank out of the cut-off bottom of a 2L plastic Coke-bottle for an extra level of class....Trailer Park Boys-style😂. Always love your videos!

Nicely done and funny😂

Splendid video Geoff! Entertaining but also full of wisdom :) I don't necessarily hate the things in the list. I have "issues" of my own, you know... The one thing I absolutely hate is being told by somebody who drinks whisky to knock themselves out something like the following: "Oh, I don't like that whisky because it gave me awful hangover after we drank a couple of bottles the previous night. It must've been a fake." I hate alcohol abuse and I hate people judging a dram by the "quality" of the headache they had after getting themselves drunk. Cheers!

Very good! Number 6 - doing shots of single malts! Primum cupam deinde mundum!

Just paused the video to say that the intro is *sublime* 😂

I do get a little pissed when I have someone over who professes to be a whisky drinker and then chooses a really premium 15 or 18 yo as their drink of choice from the very wide selection I am fortunate enough to have. What gets to me is when they just swig it down almost like a tequila shot. I am sitting savouring my dram and have drunk 10% of what I poured and I look over and their glass is already empty. Drives me nuts. But I also know I am a little OCD, really snobby about my whisky, but most of all a dick.

Loved the video! Good job mate. It makes me think about the inner 'whisky wanker' dialogue. For example: Lee, don't like this Lagavulin Offerman bottle. It's not allowed to be as good as Port Charlotte, because of reasons! Good reasons. But wait, other Lee, this is delicious! What else matters! 🙄

Thanks for some laughs :D Best video so far :D

The ice and coke opening was hilarious! Oh my gosh!

Great! You've nailed it! 😊

Funny thing is your right and even tongue in cheek the haters will hate!! Enjoy!!

Love this video so much! Fabulous!!! 🙂

Yes immediately triggered - felt like someone had check braked me on the highway! One ☝️ other thing is glassware - served exxy whisky in a tumbler 🥃 makes my skin crawl. Smelling it is half the pleasure, so some plate with edges does f-all for the experience. Enjoyed the list 😀😀

I hate it when people drink the whiskey I serve them without smelling it first. Okay, I'll be honest, I even hate it when they don't smell it long enough. Recently I was wondering if not wanting to talk to people who don't appreciate whiskey makes me a snob. I think it does. I have become a snob.

Another “objection” I sometimes hear: the “wrong” glassware. I have a bunch of glencairns, but once poured a friend a dram into a Riedel whisky glass. You might have thought I poured it into a paper cup. (I’m in the minority who think the Riedel is a good glass.) Also, related to your very excellent “mystery” pour: people who refuse to drink blended whiskey. I believe the Maclean’s Nose is 70% single malt, 30% grain.

Haha good vid, G. The smirk when you sipped that [shutters] Springbank and coke gave me a good giggle 😆 And actually your mystery pour does tie in nicely because there are many that think blends are all poorer quality than single malts. Definitely not the case if you find the right ones! Cheers 🥃

SO MANY LOL MOMENTS!!! Fantastic! 🤣

The thing that pisses me off is pouring too much whisky in a Glencairn. When the glass is half full. That makes me flinch. BTW I love the Whisky Tribe vibe: "The best whisky is the whisky you like, the way you like to drink it." In the meantime, I also like to silently judge people who don't drink their whisky the right way (my way) 😅

Fun episode. Super curious about Maclean's Nose though. It's not a blend I'm familiar with and I'd love to see the full review. Love the more value priced blends. Cheers.

Very cool video!

I am a snob, but I am a constructive one. If I find out that one likes a bottle which I have on my shelf while I don't like that whisky so much anymore, I always consider to give that bottle away. In general, it is a win win transaction as I do not like to have too many bottles I do not really like. So, I consider - for example - to give away my Aberlour 12 to a colleague. It is a perfectly good whisky, but I prefer other drams. I only drink whisky which I really enjoy as alcohol is, after all, a poison. Sometimes giving away a bottle which i dont like feels similar to buy a new one (it could btw well be the anticipation of buying a new bottle!)

Hope you JW red in that SB bottle

Love, LOVE this video. Putting a mountain of ice in the glass had me getting physically uncomfortable. The "pshhhhh" of the Coke bottle opening really put me over the top. Can't wait for the return of Evil Geoff in future videos! 😎

Hey, I’m from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Live in Ecuador now. Love your humor.

Great video! Looks like you had fun making it. Hoping McCain nose appears here. Cheers

0:24 - Surprised you didn't took a good swing out of the bottle before leaving it open on the table 😅

Love this one mate, especially how smug you were looking in the intro 😂 If you are open to some nice criticism on pronunciation, the way you said Gaelic is the Irish way of pronouncing it. If it’s Irish you say Gay-lick, but for Scottish it’s Gah-lick, with an ‘ah’ sound. We have a Scottish woman in our tasting club who is fluent in Gaelic and she calls us out on that every time.

Haha. Great video Geoff. We need more of this whisky comedy/standup* . The ice in the SB10 was funny, then the Coke came out 😂😂 PETS works so well as an acronym. I'm just off to order some whisky stones....😅😅 *from a sensible, seated position

Great video! I think there are a few cocktails that really highlights and benefits from a great maltwhisky: The penicillin and Rob Roy for example. Mixed right, Springbank 10 is not wasted in any of them

😂😂😂that wound me right up,I hope that was an empty bottle of Springbank with an inferior blend in.😢...ahhh it was 😂😂

Enough is Enough Goeff!! You crossed the line. I call the Police right now!! Just joking 😁. Fantastic stuff. Made my day. All you said was in the point. Cheers 👍😁🥂🙋🏻‍♂️

I learned about Canadians from South Park, you seem different 🤣

Great video, Geoff! So many valid points. I may curl my toes, when I see / hear about people putting ice in a whisky that I definitely don't think deserves ice, but that's my problem to deal with. And even if my toes never straighten again, I cannot sue anybody for it. My problem. Cheers buddy, love your work and ideas.

Pissed myself laughing. Soooo gooooooood!!!!

There are so many outcast whiskys that I love. I honestly think there are people that are unable to actually taste the whisky because of their thick barrier of prejudices. I dont mind to say I LOVE Cragganmore 12, Oban 14, The Singleton of Dufftown 12, Clynelish 14 and Royal Lochnagar 12.

Totally get #2. I'm one of those shameful few on the planet who doesn't tear up over a dram of SB. It's okay, mildly interesting and while I can appreciate the old school production methods, the liquid isn't that interesting for me. Somehow saying this feels blasphemous and while part of me feels like I should keep this dirty little secret to myself, the other part of me says 'f#ck em'. Such is the life of a whisky renegade.

Intro is awesome ! :) ... rest of the movie also ;)

Hahahah that was great vid Geoff, I think others have already said everything which could be said about these topics :). Personally, I appreciate corrections about pronouncing, grammar etc. This way I'll learn something new!

Hi Geoff excellent video, had a good laugh and know exactly where your coming from. People can do what they want to with their whisky me personally can’t see the point though in putting ice in a malt whisky a cheap blend yes. Started to cringe at the intro. Please say that wasn’t a springbank 10. Again, excellent video, slàinte Geoff. P.S glad I don’t know any whisky snobs 👍🥃

My "of the moment" pet peeve is when you send a decent bottle half way round the world and you find out they are drinking it at a ridiculous dilution (we are talking full highball glass -yes, they do have glencairns- from a single dram pour). I only found this out last week so still a very open wound - no more Tamdhu 15, or any Tamdhu, for you there's nothing I can do about the Ledaig 10 that is currently in the Christmas balikbayan box.

Seriously funny. Man, I was holding back my annoyance at the SB sketch, whilst laughing my ass off 😂.

I knew you were going to add Coke to the Springbank 10-- Arrrrrgggghhhh! Though, I do add a small ice cube to single malt Scotch in summer.

I had a buddy where I poured a nice 10 year Scotch and he threw it down like a shot. I was like ok then. We have totally different beliefs about whiskey.

Intro was epic mate!

Hi Geoff, Je suis surpris d'apprendre que tu viens du Québec ! Magnifique province ❤! That was a fun video. Very refreshing. Cheers

This was epic. From the guns out in the intro, to a French lesson, to LISTS! MOOOAAAR LISTS! Very entertaining acting and production. How was that opening drink BTW? Was it a bourbon? WT101?

My wife started calling me a "whiskey snob" years ago, when I first started buying different kinds of glasses and comparing them to one another. I am admittedly very picky about how I consume whiskey, but I don't care how anyone else drinks it, so that's not a "snob" in my opinion. I honestly don't mind being called one either though.

Springbank + Coke = 😳. Still, IIRC at some festival Ardbeg were serving Ardbeg 10 (5?) with Cherry coke. Might be worth a whirl.

Geoff, you're such a smart ass 😂

Ackchtually !!! If you add only one or two ice cubes to your glass, the temperature delta is gonna make them melt really fast, whereas if you pack your glass with ice, it’s gonna stay cold for much longer, hence not melt as much ! A bit counter intuitive at first but makes perfect sense when you think about it

Great video - cheers....

Nothing better than a smokey cokey. Great video !

loled hard, great job!

One single ice cube with CS bourbon is perfectly fine. Cheers 🥃

Blending whiskies yourself. I had half a bottle of Campbeltown Loch that I spiced up with half a bottle of Kilkerran 12yo. In my view, they are both Springbanks. If not, it’s still a Campbeltown blended malt. One of my whisky friends really looked at me as if I had done something illegal 😂

omg, ice, and coke??? lol nice one.

At a party, someone pouring me a neat whisky in a plastic cup makes me nuts! I know i should be grateful for the drink, but seriously, have some (even basic as hell) glassware for neat whiskey drinkers.

4:03 I think I need to fix my profile picture to have lizard eyes now. I've been hiding it for too long #whiskyilluminatihavefeelingstoo #whiskyilluminatihavenicehaircuts #whiskyilluminatifunnyhashtaghahawhatafunnyguy #soupisafoodnotadrink In all seriousness. Great video, you are the @Rocketpoweredmohawk of the whisky world.

No. 6: flippers and/or whoever is responsible for those ridiculous price hikes we have seen over the past years

Tell me that's not really Springbank! Oh . . . Thank heavens 😅

The "I only buy Springbank at MSRP" guy. Well, congratulations that you got your Springbank 18 for 100 €. I cannot.

SB and coke, huh. well played G. got any Lagg product reviews coming up?

Great show. Loved it thoroughly, though the first 2 mins wanted me to break my Samsung Tab.

Ah man, I miss living in Vermont and driving across the border to Quebec! And browsing the SAQ selection of course, hopefully it’s not sinful!

Hahahaha. Hilarious. …….aaaaaand yet somewhat abrasive…. 😂😂😂😂 😅😅😅 Cheers. 🥃

Tank top Geoffs are my favourite characters now 🤣🤣🤣 I have some friends who have more money than taste or sense and it really irks me when we're at a whisky shop or they're getting a gift they buy the most -or near most- expensive bottles they see just because of the price and act like, before they even taste it, that it is the best whisky out there. I know it's petty and I shouldn't judge but damn dude we could've gotten the whole Arran Smuggler Series for that price!!!

if it's bloody hot and humid and you want to enjoy sipping a refreshing summer dram, which can be understandable , glencadam 10/orchard house, glengoyne 12, Dalwhinnie 15 (nah, I'm kidding ;0 ), etc , just pour it and put the glencairn itself in the freezer for 10-15 mins rather than dilute too much