If you listen closely, Tony recommends, "Best to just test them all and taste them".
His advice on the Jameson? "You can't go wrong with that". This is a man who knows his way around a liquor store.
I just got back from a CR meeting (like AA) a few minutes ago. I know a fair bit about alcoholism. This WT leader is a stone cold alcoholic in my opinion. Alcoholic's primary relationship is with their drug, not people. Alcoholics frequently engage in various risky behaviors because of this.
He ran out of hooch, plain and simple. Which is panic time for an alcoholic. That's why he took the chance to go load up on a Sunday morning.... When he was least likely to be ID'd and bring reproach on the church.
Knowing the risk of bad publicity, He weighed that against having to deal with reality while sober. The addiction won and so did we.