Piehole Whisky

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Piehole Whisky

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Remember when enjoying pie and whisky meant eating pie and drinking whisky separately? Well, that hell is now over thanks to Diageo :

http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/ ... -whiskies/

“Many people remember that feeling you get when you first taste Grandma’s pies fresh from the oven,” commented Kristin Markovich, senior innovation manager, whiskey.

“Piehole is our way of bringing that delicious memory to consumers for any fun occasion and we hope people everywhere will open their pie holes to try these three mouth-watering flavours.”
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I was in a store a couple of weeks ago when these arrived and the owner insisted that we taste all 3 flavors. Here's the unanimous judgement:
  • Apple Pie - an artificial mild green apple flavor... uninteresting
  • Cherry Pie - very sweet with a flavor like cough syrup... worst of the bunch
  • Pecan Pie - if you like pecan pie, you'll probably like this... pretty good pecan flavor with enough sweetness to make it a great topping for vanilla ice cream (with a slice of pecan pie, of course)
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At least they're labelled honestly...


...but even so we're left - as always - with the use of what are called "artificial" and the misleading "natural" flavors. Neither are particularly real. As many of you know the term "natural" means only that the laboratory concoction must contain only one "natural" component, and the rest can be, and usually artificial.

For example "natural" strawberry flavor gets its flavor from an extract of beaver rectum (the "natural" component).

In this case, it's bad enough to flavor whisky in the first place, and you can bet there is nothing "real" at all about these taste engineered products. And needless to say, you can bet there's nothing really special about the whiskey either. Thanks to Bear for his confirming impressions...
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