NEVER Pour Your Bourbon Over Ice Again — Try This Old Distiller Trick

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com 5 dollars and 52 cents. That is what one pour of Knob Creek 12 cost out of the bottle on my counter, and my neighbor Earl dropped four cubes of ice in it and slid it back twenty minutes later, half full, saying it was not worth five dollars. He blamed the bourbon. He had it backwards. I spent 34 years putting water into bourbon for a living, and what happened in that glass is the last step of my old job, done with no scale, no spec and nobody watching. So this is twelve things, starting with the old distiller trick: cut the bottle once, measured, the night before, into a quart jar in the refrigerator, and pour a cold glass that is as strong on the last sip as the first. None of it needs a machine, whiskey stones, a sphere mold or a special glass. It needs a measuring cup, a clean quart jar, water with nothing in it, one shelf in your refrigerator and one night of waiting. Along the way: what proof you actually paid for and the 80 proof floor under every bottle in the store; the arithmetic for the water, ounces times the proof on the label divided by the proof you want; why the distillery weighs the water instead of measuring it; where ice does belong; what a bartender in Portland measured when he put fancy ice against regular cubes, about half a teaspoon; why a cloudy jar is nothing to pour out; and why the higher proof bottle is the one to buy when a bottle comes in two strengths. The glass Earl poured sits on my counter the whole time. At the end I pour it into a measuring cup and read the line, and then I tell you what Earl said on Wednesday when a 27 dollar bottle from the jar stood next to his 70 dollar bottle on ice. Your homework costs nothing: two ounces over your usual ice and two ounces with measured water, side by side for twenty minutes, then both into a measuring cup. Nobody paid me to make this video. There is nothing to buy at the end of this, not a mold, not a stone, not a glass. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Five dollars and 52 cents a pour, and what four cubes of ice did to it 01:13 – The promise: twelve things, and a 27 dollar bottle against a 70 dollar bottle on ice 01:43 – What this does not need: no machine, no stones, no sphere mold 02:02 – Who I am: 34 years of putting water into bourbon 02:37 – Every bottle on the shelf was already cut with water, on purpose 03:25 – Number one: cut the bottle the way the distillery cut it, and Hoyt's jar 04:55 – Number two: know what strength you paid for, and the 80 proof floor 06:07 – Number three: measure the water, never guess it 07:22 – Number four: use water with nothing in it 08:39 – Number five: put the water in slow, in three goes 10:00 – Number six: cut it tonight and pour it tomorrow 10:45 – The glass at eleven minutes: the water sinking through the bourbon 11:03 – Number seven: where the title goes too far, and where ice belongs 12:14 – Number eight: stop paying for fancy ice 13:16 – Number nine: the refrigerator, not the freezer 14:22 – Number ten: do not throw out a jar that goes cloudy 15:55 – Number eleven: buy the higher proof and do the cutting yourself 17:14 – Number twelve: put your last sip in a measuring cup 18:10 – The honest words about the limits of all this 19:09 – What twenty-two minutes did to Earl's glass 19:57 – Earl came back on Wednesday 20:39 – All twelve in one breath 21:25 – No sponsor, and the man who went back to the bottom shelf 22:25 – Your homework: two glasses, twenty minutes, one measuring cup 22:44 – Next time: the bottle that used to cost 22 dollars #bourbon #whiskey #distiller #distillertips #bourbonandice #proof #knobcreek #wildturkey #whiskeytips #homebar #savemoney #bourbonlover