The Three Whiskateers- try Chinese Baijiu.

One enthusiast on whiskey and his two partners, gobble food and talk about the whiskey they choose for that episode. We try to teach and be funny. In this episode our guest host Melissa returns and she brought Curtis along with her. Watch as the sample the chinese drink called Baijiu!

[andrewli]

Gold in Chinese culture represents wealth and red represents happiness.

[legendofnoob]

Red is the national color of China, represents happiness and good fortune (as in luck).
Gold, I think gold is just gold, like money, prosperity and success.
Yeah baijiu is not whiskey, it literally means "white liquor", with white referring to its colorlessness. They are Chinese spirits distilled from fermented grains and can be classified into many different types based on fragrance, type of yeast used, types of grains used, and regionality. They are sometimes aged, usually in clay so it does not take on a color like whisky does from wood.

[danielliu]

Dude! I really love it when I find you guys actually appreciate this stuff in some way. But this is not whiskey guys, this is just a liquor/likker made with fermented rice or the rice bran, and aged in pottery pots. The aromatic flavour is coming from the formation of ester combined by acidic chemicals and ethanol, which is totally different from what wood polymer decomposition produces in whiskeys. I love both spirits, but whiskey we can drink them with water, Chinese BaiJiu should always be consumed with some heavy rich meat/oily dishes, and they can complement each other. Have fun guys!

[ladybugnaturalsolutions]

I was just gifted a bottle and had to try it. As I was tasting, I decided to look it up on YouTube and found you guys. You literally explained this well. Every note and experience was exactly the same. Cheers to you, great video.

[hallo]

Not a whiskey. Baijiu doesnt get aged in a oak casket. It typically sits and age either in the fermentation pits as fermented grains or in bottles after distillation. The micro organism mix that grows in the fermentation pit is what pertains to the majority of the taste of Baijiu the other variable being the type of grain/starch used. They don't use a specific yeast type but rather whatever microorganism was in the air at the time. ‎The typical grains used are Sorghum, Glutinous rice, Rice, Corn, wheat either fermented as a single grain or in a mix. Sorghum gives Baijiu the extra strong fruity notes which usually results in the typical strong aromatic profile. Northeastern china also use sweet potates and/or peas as a cheaper starch source instead of grains for fermentation which produce a lighter less aromatic type that is unambiguously called light aromatic profile. There is also a sause profile charateristic to South Western chinese baijiu that is packed with bean paste/soy sauce flavor. So yeah Baijiu taste varies a lot based on the different regions where it is produced.

[zupermaus]

Thats from the company Kweichow Maotai -it's one of the most valuable brands in the world, having recently overtaken the worth of China's biggest bank (which btw was the world's biggest bank). Its market capitalisation is $387 billion -larger than Coca Cola, Mastercard, Nestle or Disney, and just behind Wal-Mart - now the world's second biggest luxury brand (behind Louis Vuitton). It's not whiskey btw, but a wheat-sorghum based spirit.

[doszhu]

hint: you NEVER drink baijiu with ice.
Instead, you can put it in a bowl of hot water to warm it.
Then it will taste soft.

[mt]

Baijiu represents a kind of Chinese folk culture. It is not like scotch or cagnac xo, which you drink in a formal manner or give you some romantics. 😄 。。。it is like a liquor which you drink when you have hotpot in coldest winner with your close buddies. No mannor, no ediquette, no hypocrisy... everyone supposed to end up getting drunk... Baijiu is something like that.

[heyifen]

Chinese drink baijiu in dinner with food, it's too strong if only drink it

[DuduTheDoraAmon]

It's mostly like a wedding feast drink rather than a gift, it's not expansive also not too cheap, probably around 15-20 bucks a bottle, design to get guests tipsy/drunk and have a good time. Baijiu its not the sorta alcohol I would recommend cheap ones. Good ones take years to make, strong aroma/Oona aroma/fragrant type  need a minimum of 8 years to produce, thus most expansive. Really good quality baijiu does not cause hangovers, such as maotai, but also cost approximately 360 dollar a bottle officially, and due to limited amount produced. Its almost impossible to buy without additional purchases, like Birkin bag.

[bazan]

Where can I buy some of that in the Midwest of the USA?

[ngdlxz]

The thing about baijiu is that they can come in many different smell or taste. It is really more diverse than whiskey. In the end, if you don't like the taste, you can try those classified as 清香 which smell like vodka but taste better with less spiciness and less alcohol flavor

[yongxingan]

You are better to drink it if you pour from bottle into the little glass not waiting too long, in fact we never drink baijiu without something to eat at least a case of peanuts, The meaning of “ganbei “is empty the glass, drink all wine in the glass

[jfanp]

Yooo, there is a reason why it doesn't have the brown whiskey colour, becasue Baijiu is a UNIQUE type of liquor. IT IS NOT WHISKEY!!

[andrewli]

And the dragen is a totem in Chinese culture. Chinese people believe that they are posterity of dragon. And FYI dragon in China is totally different with dragon in western culture.

[felixwang]

As far as i know, only the type of baijiu, which is called rice flavor, is made from rice. Most of them are made from sorghum or wheat. And baijiu is not whiskey, if u would like to find out some that tastes similarly to baijiu, i would say vodka. But baijiu has three major flavors: sauce flavor, strong(fragrant)flavor, light flavor. Happy to watch you guys video~~

[Mike-btki]

Average alcohol volume for Baijiu is 50% or 100proof Lol some can get as high as 70% (140 proof)

[Periskop]

Eddie : I'm not sure why, how this is called whiskey.
In broad terms when distilled from...
grain=whiskey
fruit=brandy
sugarcane=rum
anything/?=vodka
Then there's other spirits like the Philippine lambanog, distilled from tuba or toddy, which is the fermented juice of coconut flower pods/ inflorescence.What would you call it technically? I like to call it rum but vodka is also a viable name/description? Anyway it's delicious and my favourite Philippine alcoholic beverage.

[gahman]

The gold and the red has nothing to do with earth or fire. Red is the colour of luck, and gold is the colour of prosperity. It is not a whisky at all as it is aged in clay urns, not in barrels. I would say it's closer to a vodka, but more aromatic.

[zxy]

Try Maotai, Wuliang Ye, Shuijing Fang, and Guojiao 1571, these are some premium Baijiu which will improve your experience :)