Authentic seacoast distillery in Nova Scotia makes Glynnevan Whiskey that is amazing if you’re into the sweet stuff like crown. This is miles better though. Glenora distillery makes Glenn Breton a nice scotch type whisky in Cape Breton as well. Both available online I believe.
On a differet note Ironworks also from Nova Scotia makes some great tasting rum. Smooth, sweet, and a bit thicker like it should be. Might sound a bit dumb but their maple rum is absolutely beautiful too. Not at all a gimmick like I first thought. For context I drink both neat
Actually the Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, specifically, is absolutely fantastic. Won awards all over the world too. It’s an incredible bang for your buck whisky that makes a superb base for cocktails.
God, Dillon’s gin is great. The Unfiltered No 7 especially is one of the best gins I’ve ever tried.
I also rate Ungava and Georgian Bay quite highly. Georgian Bay is very mild, not a huge amount of flavour, but it’s a good base for a lot of gin based cocktails, like a Tom Collins. Something to give the drink some backbone without being too present. Ungava has a lovely bitterness from the Labrador tea that I find really works in a gin and tonic, especially with a sweeter tonic like Fever Tree.
In another life I reviewed quite a few Crown Royal whiskies before the other website went to hell. Northern Harvest was better then the standard. The single barrel selections they send to Texas took the cake. And the 75th Monarch Anniversary, but that is long gone now.
I actually enjoyed Corby/Wiser products more, with Lot 40 being my old go to.
Not really no. There is good Canadian stuff out there depending what you’re looking for and where in Canada you are. Lot no. 40 makes good rye that’s available pretty much everywhere, the Single Copper Pot Still and the Dark Oak are both good. Tons of smaller distilliries doing good stuff as well, but a lot of those might be hard to get depenging where you are.
Other than maybe some small, craft distilleries, every Canadian whisky company makes boring stuff that tastes good with coke. However, most also make some higher end whiskies that are actually good. Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is a good example of this.
Considered by experts, I don’t know.
What I can tell you is that I love the Crown Royal Black. The Salted Caramel is not bad either.
The original Crown Royal I don’t like.
So like… is crown royal considered good to yall?
No, but Canadian whisky isn’t the easiest to recommend, sadly. Maybe try the odd small distillery. Bridgeland comes to mind.
Authentic seacoast distillery in Nova Scotia makes Glynnevan Whiskey that is amazing if you’re into the sweet stuff like crown. This is miles better though. Glenora distillery makes Glenn Breton a nice scotch type whisky in Cape Breton as well. Both available online I believe.
Source: former whiskey hound…
Glenora Distillery makes Glen Breton, very peaty and smokey, can’t recommend it enough.
Thank you for the correction. You are absolutely right.
On a differet note Ironworks also from Nova Scotia makes some great tasting rum. Smooth, sweet, and a bit thicker like it should be. Might sound a bit dumb but their maple rum is absolutely beautiful too. Not at all a gimmick like I first thought. For context I drink both neat
Their rum is excellent. Would and will buy again.
Actually the Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, specifically, is absolutely fantastic. Won awards all over the world too. It’s an incredible bang for your buck whisky that makes a superb base for cocktails.
Try ‘two brewers’ from white horse… too bad they made the maple syrup cask only once.
Quite like Dillon’s, do some really fantastic gin too and they use a lot of local stuff, some interesting specialty stuff too if you’re into that.
Liked Glen Breton too, but has been some years since I’ve had that.
God, Dillon’s gin is great. The Unfiltered No 7 especially is one of the best gins I’ve ever tried.
I also rate Ungava and Georgian Bay quite highly. Georgian Bay is very mild, not a huge amount of flavour, but it’s a good base for a lot of gin based cocktails, like a Tom Collins. Something to give the drink some backbone without being too present. Ungava has a lovely bitterness from the Labrador tea that I find really works in a gin and tonic, especially with a sweeter tonic like Fever Tree.
No 7 more or less converted my partner, she thought she disliked gin, their rye makes a fantastic old fashion as well.
I’m going to check out those as well, thanks for the recommendations!
Well now not all Crown is equal. The Northern Harvest rye is actually pretty good.
In another life I reviewed quite a few Crown Royal whiskies before the other website went to hell. Northern Harvest was better then the standard. The single barrel selections they send to Texas took the cake. And the 75th Monarch Anniversary, but that is long gone now.
I actually enjoyed Corby/Wiser products more, with Lot 40 being my old go to.
Not really no. There is good Canadian stuff out there depending what you’re looking for and where in Canada you are. Lot no. 40 makes good rye that’s available pretty much everywhere, the Single Copper Pot Still and the Dark Oak are both good. Tons of smaller distilliries doing good stuff as well, but a lot of those might be hard to get depenging where you are.
Other than maybe some small, craft distilleries, every Canadian whisky company makes boring stuff that tastes good with coke. However, most also make some higher end whiskies that are actually good. Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is a good example of this.
Considered by experts, I don’t know. What I can tell you is that I love the Crown Royal Black. The Salted Caramel is not bad either. The original Crown Royal I don’t like.
My dad buys the salted caramel by the case!
It’s too sweet for me, but he loves it and probably singlehandedly keeps his LCBO restocking it.