 Hi guys, I'm Brian Sikawa, welcome and thanks for tuning in. Today we're doing something new, we're kicking off a brand new series here on the YouTube channel. We're going to be tasting whiskies. I've got my friend Chris here and today we're starting with one of my personal favorites, the Will-It 2-Year Family Stay-At-Ride. All right, Chris, so Will-It 2-Year, I know it's one of your favorites as well. Can you tell me a little bit about the distillery? Yes, the Will-It distillery was founded in the mid-30s by Thompson Will-It and to this day it is still privately owned and operated. They also use some of the original recipes when they make their whiskies, which I find interesting. One of my favorite is a cast strength rye, so it is a bruise over rye, high proof. So cast strength, also known as barrel proof, that means that they're taking the whisky right out of the barrel as it matures. Most whiskies that you get, 80 proof, 90 proof, they're taking it out of the barrel and adding some water, which brings the price down for the consumer, but this is straight out of the barrel. Straight out of the barrel, the bottle reads 108.1 proof, so proceed with caution. What do you say we get to some taste in here? Let's try it out. Well, I already have my glass ready. So you say this is a bruise over rye, is this one that if I'm just getting into whisky then I'm going to want to try right away or should I wait? Honestly it's a great rye, it's one of my favorites as we've already said. I would try it, yes absolutely, but I would proceed with caution. I would take a small sip, see how it is first, maybe just wet your lips with it before you maybe add water if you still find the proof too high. Right, when I'm tasting barrel proof or cast strength whisky I like to just take a little bit and let the flavor just explode in my mouth. Absolutely. So I've always had a little bit of trouble kind of pinpointing exactly what it is that I taste in this whisky, but I know that you have something very specific that you get from that. Yes, this whisky definitely has some orange notes to it and there's a couple of flavors that really jump out to me. Licorice and anise is what I really get from this and not a twizzler licorice flavor, but maybe if you went into the old timey Italian stores and you got a really good Italian licorice. So I just get that flavor profile from it along with some orange. So that's the Will It 2 Year Family Estate Rye. Thanks for tuning in. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and leave a comment. Let us know have you tried this whisky before, what you think of it. If you have particular whiskies you'd like us to sample here and talk about, you can leave that in the comments as well. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time. You're going to give me a lit up before we even start. Okay. We've got some in there already. Let's go. Drink it. I got to drink it. So that's how you taste a good whisky. You told me to drink it. You're my boss here. Let's go. That's right.