Now after trying both Wild Turkey American Honey and Evan Williams Honey Reserve, I can say that the new flavor of honey in liquor is really starting to catch on. I feel like the best way to try a new liquor is not by ruining it with a mix but slowly sipping on it. Here are my results.
Wild Turkey American Honey
Right off the bat when you take a sip of this delectable delight, you get that sweet taste of honey. Not only is it a sweet taste but a really sweet and sugary taste to it. After a few more sips it goes away but after you take that first sip you cant help but look back in the glass to see if there is sugar at the bottom. I can only imagine what this taste like with Coke. Probably end up with diabetes if you drink a bottle a week of this stuff.
Evan Williams Honey Reserve
I’m not gonna lie, I was kind of skeptical trying out Williams’ version of honey bourbon after trying Wild Turkey’s. When sipping on alcohol for the first time it always hits your taste buds like crazy but this one didn’t shock me like I thought it would. Now that I think about it, it really had just the right amount of honey added to it. Anymore and it would have been too sweet. It went down a little bit harsher but not too bad. This is something I can sip on occasionally after a nice home cooked meal.
Final Take
The two are different but similar. Wild Turkey is definitely a lot more sweeter while Evan Williams is a bit more hasher/stronger to go down. Do yourself a favor and go buy a couple of nips and try them both for yourself. By the way, check out the different Honey Reserve concoctions here.
The fermenting process that transforms corn and other grains into bourbon, and converts potatoes, grains—and increasingly grapes and other elements—into vodka, not only produces alcohol, but also byproducts known as congeners. And, according to research to be published next March in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, the concentration of congeners, which can be toxic in large amounts, may impact just how terribly you feel the morning after drinking a particular liquor. Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Medical School put some science behind what many holiday revelers have long suspected—if sleep and total alcohol consumption are the same, because of its higher concentration of congeners, bourbon gives you a far worse hangover than vodka.
Bourbon, the researchers found, has 37 times the amount of congeners that vodka does, leading researchers to believe that it would cause more painful hangovers. To test this theory, they recruited—and paid—95 men and women to go out drinking. After an initial night of acclimatization, study participants were given drinks containing either bourbon or vodka, and kept swilling away until they reached a blood alcohol content level of .11 (the legal limit is .08). The following night, participants drank the same amount, but of a placebo, or non-alcoholic concoction.
Researchers found that, no matter your poison, drinking to a blood alcohol content level of .11 impedes performance the following day. Yet, what was interesting, they said, was that when they tested people after their blood alcohol content had returned to 0.0 the following day, even though bourbon drinkers still felt a whole lot worse, both they and vodka drinkers had the same level of impairment on tasks.
Source: TIME
Maybe studies show that it’s the kind of alcohol that gives you a much worse hangover but I feel different. I think it has to do with the brand and how they make the booze. One night I decided to drink some vodka. The brand I picked was UV Vodka. Not the best brand but it was good, tasty, and cheap. Another night I decided to drink some more vodka but this time I went the cheap ass route and grabbed some disgusting Caldwell’s. Let’s assume I had almost the same amount to drink for both nights. Can you guess which one gave me the worst hangover? Do yourself a favor and don’t buy a handle of Caldwell’s for $8.
