I just saw an ad for SoCo and Tabasco. WTF!

[John Barleycorn]

That sounds absolutley heinous. I also think it's going to be a flop. People who are shopping for a sweetened whiskey are probably not going to want tabasco added.

[Bur]

That sounds absolutley heinous. I also think it's going to be a flop. People who are shopping for a sweetened whiskey are probably not going to want tabasco added.

I'd still hit that.

[hossthomas]

jesus that sounds fuckin awful. i despise southern comfort as it is, i don't think even tabasco can change that fact.

[peetie44]

This could add a whole new dimension to mudbutt.

[Savage]

I thought SC too sweet, and then it exploded in my freezer, thanks to a child's boyfriend. I would rather eat a tabasco-loaded snack while drinking, than drink a tabasco loaded drink.

[MethFront]

I have a bad experience with soco almost 20 years ago, but I'm a huge fans of shooters like Satan's Piss (google it)... so this might turn me around on it, except for the whole 'charging a premium to mix together two things I can easily acquire on my own' aspect...

[John Barleycorn]

The whole thing seems contradictory to me.

According to some bartending guide or something I read SoCo is pretty much about sweetening whiskey to the point where it appeals to a lot of people who would be turned off by regular bourbon. It's whiskey for sorority girls.

Putting tabasco in a drink is something that is done to appeal to stupid machismo. It's making a drink for insecure frat boys who want to show they're harder core than Red Stag.

Unless the logic is to make it into SoCo for men (a position that already seems to be taken by regular whiskey) what's the point of sweetening a whiskey and then making it burn?

[MethFront]

The whole thing seems contradictory to me.

According to some bartending guide or something I read SoCo is pretty much about sweetening whiskey to the point where it appeals to a lot of people who would be turned off by regular bourbon. It's whiskey for sorority girls.

Putting tabasco in a drink is something that is done to appeal to stupid machismo. It's making a drink for insecure frat boys who want to show they're harder core than Red Stag.

Unless the logic is to make it into SoCo for men (a position that already seems to be taken by regular whiskey) what's the point of sweetening a whiskey and then making it burn?

If TABASCO is their testing ground their fu is weak indeed. To play devil's advocate (and I only do this as someone jockeying for that particularly ineffable throne) spicing up a famously cloying beverage is not outside the boundaries of intersting taste mixtures.

[Frankennietzsche]

I'll only drink it while snow-boarding or marlin fishing or ski-boxing.