Batch 306: The Top 5 Whiskeys of 2025
Malt Couture
Alex Kidd
4.9 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Alex hunts down the best and most sought after whiskeys released in 2025! E.H. Taylor BTAC, Russell's Reserve 15 Year, Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Special Release Tanyard HIll Rye, Bardstown Bourbon Company Distillery Reserve Hokkaido Mizunara Oak Barrel Finish, and Hill Farmstead Whistle Pig Rye 10 Year all compete for that coveted spot atop the Malt Couture Power Rankings. In the Beer News, the TTB gets served a lawsuit to allow meads, ciders, and fruit wines to display vintages on their labels and the world's oldest monastic brewery in Germany is sold.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, welcome to |
| 0:07.4 | Notion Beer presents all the tour of the world's |
| 0:09.2 | J-Giaz-Ear podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | This is batch number three, oh, six. |
| 0:13.8 | And the fix is in, like, again, an episode that, like, I was like, I don't want to do |
| 0:20.5 | stuff like this anymore. |
| 0:22.3 | And 10 a.m. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.9 | And we got to do it. |
| 0:25.4 | We just did a barley wine's life one now, basically like an even more insane barley wine is life episode. |
| 0:35.9 | So some of these, some of these whiskeys are like over 140 proof hazmat. |
| 0:40.2 | You're like, you thought the barley wine was bad. |
| 0:42.0 | And now it's like, now it's really in the thick of it. |
| 0:44.6 | The only saving grace, this episode is called the top five whiskeys of 2025, |
| 0:49.5 | is that all five of them are really good. |
| 0:53.1 | Maybe that makes it a little easier for having breakfast whiskey. |
| 0:56.5 | But it's, I am excited for this, Stephen. |
| 0:59.5 | We have so many stories to tell about this. |
| 1:02.1 | Such a journey, like months and months and months getting this whiskey episode. |
| 1:07.3 | Do we, do we have a bunch of stories? |
| 1:09.6 | Do we? |
| 1:10.0 | I. |
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