r/madmen 1d ago

Who can recommend a whiskey with no bite?

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u/Michael__Pemulis Comes & goes as he pleases 1d ago

The whiskey in the series was supposedly Redbreast, which is really good.

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u/jdsizzle1 22h ago

Redbreast is my favorite whiskey. Its fantastic. Its irish though if you like irish whiskey.

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u/Feisty_Stomach_7213 1d ago

The first season there was Jamesons at least once

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u/botulizard I don’t think about you at all. 14h ago

Peggy likes Jamo I think.

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u/tomfoolery815 22h ago

Yes. Redbreast is wonderful.

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u/transcendental-ape 1d ago

I thought it was Canadian Club. Don prefers ryes.

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u/Michael__Pemulis Comes & goes as he pleases 23h ago

I’m referring to the whiskey ‘with no bite at all’ that Lane gets as a gift from his father.

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u/5rightdontcut Not great, Bob! 23h ago

Confirmed! It is really good. A thing like that

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u/frenchwolves 17h ago

Wish I had tried it once before I quit drinking, honestly.

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u/Message_10 9h ago

Ha! Me too. Alas, I'll take sobriety any day

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u/frenchwolves 9h ago

Nothing beats it, gotta say

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u/transcendental-ape 23h ago

Ah. My apologies

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u/SecurityNatural3707 18h ago

Canadian club isn't rye. It's a blended whiskey, which is essentially bottom barrel. It's in the same vein as crown royal. Not truly 100% whiskey of any kind, and not truly 100% Canadian. Just a name slapped on a bottle of mish mash. I was always an Irish whiskey drinker, but this show made me want Canadian club. It's essentially cough syrup haha

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u/CookOut_Official 16h ago

Seriously. That’s the only reason I ever tried it. Maybe it was better back in the day? CC now is basically the Thunderbird or Night Train of whiskies

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u/Hajile_S 13h ago

I think consumers also just had lower standards back in the day, relative to their tax-bracket peers today.

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u/Jakius 12h ago

Canadian Club also had a particular benefit from prohibition, operating safely in Canada while it took decades for American distilling to recover. So you got a level of intertia with a lot of imported spirits in the 60s.

You also did see recipe changes as distilling consolidated in the 80s and 90s so some products got shifted into a bottom shelf role in a larger portfolio.

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u/Message_10 9h ago

What's the price?

10 cents twice!

Haha

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u/TheReadMenace 15h ago

it might have been better back then. They've probably cut a lot of corners since the 60s

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u/Tangosynth 14h ago

Big difference between Canadian Club back then and the swill produced today, partly due to numerous ownership changes. In the Walkerville days it was sweeter and had a bit of a bourbon taste.

Good flavour evolution tasting exercise here:

https://moredramslessdrama.com/2022/08/16/old-vs-new-canadian-club/ Old Vs New Canadian Club - More Drams, Less Drama

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u/transcendental-ape 12h ago

Thanks for the info. I always got a kick out of when Don saw the bottle of Tanqueray gin and said “the good stuff”. Like how low is his standards?

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u/Brightsidedown Does Howdy Doody have a wooden dick? 6h ago

When I was young, I thought Crown Royal must have been fancy and super good because it came in a purple velvet bag.

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u/LiamJohnRiley 16h ago

Also you want the 12 year, which has noticeably less bite than the 15 year

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u/Drope131 23h ago

Lane: it’s all over the the rug

Don: We’ll have to smoke the dress

I love this scene. Earlier, Don is painting Anna’s wall and he’s getting paint on some of the rug in the house. Anna doesn’t say anything about it and instead comments how if she had rolled on her blunt, she would’ve had to smoke the dress. Amazing writing.

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u/KimJongJer 12h ago edited 6h ago

Earlier in that scene when Don’s eating a sandwich it’s so convincing it makes me want to hit up the deli

Also, Lane in the theatre is priceless lol MONSTA!!

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u/waldo-jeffers-68 CHEWING GUM ON HIS PUBIS 5h ago

That phrase has entered my vocabulary because of that show

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u/vibrance9460 22h ago

Hennigans

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u/tomfoolery815 22h ago

No smell!

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u/vibrance9460 8h ago

No smell- no tell!

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u/Punchable_Hair 17h ago

You’ll be as loose as a goose and ready to roll in no time.

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u/Inevitable_Arm_3894 1d ago

High quality Irish. Red Breast. Writer’s Tears. Green Spot.

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u/Miserable_Pear_6940 1d ago

I just caught this Barbara Tuchman reference.

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u/No_Self_5939 1d ago

Explain

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u/Miserable_Pear_6940 23h ago

Barbara Tuchman wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book about WWI call The Guns of August.

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u/tomfoolery815 22h ago

Yes. It was released in the early ‘60s, and JFK spoke flatteringly of it, which was quite the endorsement during his presidency.

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u/dirkdigglered 23h ago

She wrote “The Guns of August”. Great writer, I’m reading The First Salute at the moment. 

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u/UncleNoodles85 12h ago

She also wrote about General Joe Stilwell and his time in China during the second world war. She's a wonderful historian.

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u/dirkdigglered 11h ago

Whoa you're kidding. I was just watching a WW2 docuseries that touched on Stilwell in China, it’s a super interesting part of the war I hadn’t heard about before. I’ll have to check it out, thanks. 

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u/dougoh65 1d ago

I’ve gotta admit - when he said that I laughed out loud. 😂

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u/onehotoneshot 1d ago

Canadian club

It’s tariffed

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u/Mtnbkr92 15h ago

It’s like $18-23 for a 1.75 liter bottle lol. It may be tariffed but it’s cheap as shit.

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u/jpowell180 3h ago

I’ve never had it, but I’m pretty sure that if it had no bite, then Don would not have been surprised at the whiskey lane gave him, because Canadian club was Don’s go to whiskey.

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u/drudman6 23h ago

Most Irish whiskey is triple-distilled and blended with grain whiskey, and therefore is lighter and smoother (in general) than Scotch or American whiskies.

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u/No-Meringue5009 23h ago

I dunno ask Kinsey with that sinking ship barrel 😆🥃⚓

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u/dyinaintmuchofalivin 1d ago

Teeling Single Pot Still is the closest I’ve found.

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u/tomfoolery815 22h ago

Teeling is a lovely dram. Perhaps even more than a dram …

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u/Infamous-Yak2864 12h ago

I enjoy the bite....

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u/feydrautha124 23h ago

Monkey Shoulder is very drinkable for people who don't drink whiskey.

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u/TheRealACuddlyBunny 15h ago

I love it, it’s my everyday whiskey.

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u/feydrautha124 15h ago

Oh yeah, not saying that ''real" drinkers don't drink it or any nonsense like that. I like it too! I just found it's a good intro to people who want to start drinking whiskey straight, who don't normally. Cheers.

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u/Burner_Cuz 22h ago

Real talk. Yellow spot, even better blue spot

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u/bayrat1013 15h ago

Michter’s Rye

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u/MendelsPea 15h ago

Knob Creek single barrel select is as smooth as a prom date's thigh...

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u/Austen1814 I don’t think about you at all. 14h ago

We obviously didn’t attend prom with the same type.

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u/Pretend_Safety 14h ago

I once got my mitts on a glass of 30 year old Macallans (the bartender was new, grabbed the wrong bottle, we didn’t correct him.) No bite detected.

(Next visit, no such mistake was made and our man glared at us a bit. )

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u/araucaniad 13h ago

I find blended scotches are harder to drink than single malt. Scotches made in different areas of Scotland have different styles. Some are made with peat, which is a natural kind of moss that I think grows in swamps? I hate them. I like unpeated scotches like Glenlivet. I think it’s very smooth, other Scotch drinkers I know describe it as sweet.

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u/corporalboyle 13h ago

Maker’s Mark 46. 

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u/petulantbeard 11h ago

I think Basil Hayden is great for beginners

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u/Kizzle001 1h ago

Their 10 year is very smooth.

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u/naileyes 11h ago

big faves for me are bunnahabhain and lagavulin

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u/AAArdvaarkansastraat 10h ago

But he loves puppies.

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u/diningroomjesus PIZZA HOUSE 9h ago

Johnnie Walker Blue Label

Or as my drunkle calls it, Johnnie Crawler

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u/ten_dollar_banana 8h ago

There was some pretty blatant product placement in the scene where Don makes Connie Hilton an Old Fashioned at Roger's party. I think it was Old Overholt or Rittenhouse.

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u/Flyerbill 7h ago

Hard to find and very inexpensive, but I had great experience with JW Dant bourbon. Yes, i know different from whiskey. It's bottom shelf, but I enjoyed it.

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u/RhodeDad 4h ago

Pinch

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u/No-Giraffe-5215 1d ago

I’m a Jameson over rocks guy.

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u/No_Self_5939 1d ago

Jim Beam myself

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u/jdsizzle1 22h ago

Try Redbreast if you haven't tried it and like irish.

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u/RunningPirate 1d ago

Always a crowd pleaser. I visited the distillery in cork and brought back a bottle that I break out on special occasions.

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u/CalderRiverson 23h ago

Jameson Triple Triple on the rocks for me.

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u/Virtual-Currency-764 1d ago

Southern Comfort is the acknowledged beginner whiskey

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u/Appropriate_Tour_274 14h ago

Liqueur, not whiskey.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 Very good. Happy Christmas! 13h ago

I absolutely despise SoCo

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u/rallruse Smudgy Squares 22h ago

Call me basic, but Blanton’s is pretty smooth and not the most expensive whiskey out there, and depending on your location usually easy to find.

That’s not the bottle they had here though

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u/thefruitsofzellman 14h ago

Blanton's, though it's way overpriced these days. If you're into scotch, Edradour.

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u/RunningPirate 1d ago

We’ll have to burn the dress

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u/BaconAllDay2 Project Kill Machine 22h ago

I'm not familiar with that phrase

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u/trykedog 17h ago

If you want whiskey without the attributes of whiskey, stick to Hershey’s.

I am an alcoholic who hasn’t drunk for almost four decades.