Virtual Whiskey Tasting, Part 2

The final tasting for the week started out well enough. There were perhaps 35 people online, in addition to the Brown Jug Host and the speaker from the HeavenHill Distillery in Kentucky, Jack Choate. As before, we bought our tasting kit from the local store and were all set to learn about the featured whiskeys.

Jack started by telling us a bit about the distillery, their history and the products they make. I won’t go in to too much detail here, since you can read it for yourself on their website, but I will say they have been in business since 1935, so they really know their stuff.

We then got down to business with the tasting, starting with the 86.6 proof and working our way up to the 110 proof.

At least, that was the plan. 5 minutes in to tasting our first pour - the Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage, a very nice and smooth one – we got Zoom Bombed!

I didn’t even know that was a thing. Apparently some people just have too much time on their hands, so they look for Zoom meetings and crash them, filling the meeting with obnoxious loud music and filthy texts. From what we could tell, there were at least three of them. They took turns blasting us out of our meeting and filling the message box full of horrible words. Jack tried everything he could to get rid of them, but ended up having to just cancel the whole thing and shut down the meeting.

Thankfully, Heavan Hill had printed out a little booklet of the 5 whiskeys in the tasting kit, so we were able to conduct our own tasting. But I have to say, we were both so disgusted with the Zoom Bomb it was not a very good experience.

However, I will say that our favorite whiskey from last night is by far the Elijah Craig, with Pikesville coming in at a very close second.