Does Anyone Double Pour a Pour to Help it Open Up?

[smokinjoe]

I run mine through my Mr. Coffee machine. Preheats it along with polishing up the spirit with a controlled post bottling heavy filtering procedure. I find it helps juice that is suffering from sharp off-notes resulting from the use of poorly propagated yeast strains, or insufficient backset discharge tube angles during fermentation tank fill up. It really makes a difference!

[dSculptor]

Bourbon foreplay, I thought I read it all out here. :shocked:

[Richnimrod]

OK, here it is...

I chose a bottle of Black Maple from '13 (95-pr) that always struck me as better after it had some air time.

I did as I proposed and poured about an ounce and a half into a glencairn, sniffed it for a few seconds, then tasted a very small taste. I then poured it from several inches above another glencairn reserving a bit less than half in the original glass.

In comparing the two, I found the 'second pour' one to be just very slightly mellower.... or maybe I convinced myself there was a difference. It was VERY slight. I enjoyed some of the 'first pour' leaving a small amount in it to 'air out'. I then finished the 'second pour' with several sips over about 20-minutes. I saved the small amount in the 'first pour' 'open' to the air for about a half hour more, then finished it trying to remember the other one. I probably should have 'capped' the 'second pour' to save it as well; but didn't think of it 'til it was too late. Anyway, I think the difference created by doing the second pour is extremely minimal, and probably not as great as just leaving a pour open to the air for 15 minutes or more.

Now all of you folx should bear in mind my palate is world-renowned for being made of heavy iron, so I can easily miss nuances others may pick up.

So, there's the test I promised.......

[steeltownbbq]

1. shake bottle to aerate whiskey

2. remove cork/cap

3. wrap lips around neck of bottle

4. pour

5. repeat until desired effect is achieved

[johnnyflake45]

OK, here it is...

I chose a bottle of Black Maple from '13 (95-pr) that always struck me as better after it had some air time.

I did as I proposed and poured about an ounce and a half into a glencairn, sniffed it for a few seconds, then tasted a very small taste. I then poured it from several inches above another glencairn reserving a bit less than half in the original glass.

In comparing the two, I found the 'second pour' one to be just very slightly mellower.... or maybe I convinced myself there was a difference. It was VERY slight. I enjoyed some of the 'first pour' leaving a small amount in it to 'air out'. I then finished the 'second pour' with several sips over about 20-minutes. I saved the small amount in the 'first pour' 'open' to the air for about a half hour more, then finished it trying to remember the other one. I probably should have 'capped' the 'second pour' to save it as well; but didn't think of it 'til it was too late. Anyway, I think the difference created by doing the second pour is extremely minimal, and probably not as great as just leaving a pour open to the air for 15 minutes or more.

Now all of you folx should bear in mind my palate is world-renowned for being made of heavy iron, so I can easily miss nuances others may pick up.

So, there's the test I promised.......

Thanks for doing it, as promised. I appreciate your thoughts!

[GaryT]

1. shake bottle to aerate whiskey

2. remove cork/cap

3. wrap lips around neck of bottle

4. pour

5. repeat until desired effect is achieved

Love this - why dirty the extra glass, which will require more water to wash . . . this is just the environmentally conscious thing to do. @#$% those glasses and the soap to wash them!

[typoerror]

or just open your throat and let it pour down, a la shotgunning. no need in wasting precious energy lifting and lowering the bottle for every sip.

[ratcheer]

I used to think this was a fairly level headed group of people.

tim

[TunnelTiger]

Well if nothing else I've learned that my definition of a double pour and others is drastically different.

[flahute]

I used to think this was a fairly level headed group of people.

tim

smokinjoe tried to level things back out for you back on page 2 but it didn't work.

[johnnyflake45]

You guys are killing me!!! LOL!

[TheNovaMan]

This thread is awesome!

[Ravensfire]

Bourbon foreplay, I thought I read it all out here. :shocked:

To paraphrase Black Rain, "Bourbon usually gets kissed before it gets drunk"

(very, very under-rated movie, btw)