Tastes

Had at Lasalle Kitchen and Tavern. Nose is pretty ethanolic with light caramel. Taste is bland caramel and very grassy - almost zero vanilla and quite dull. 3.25

Fantastic caramels and salty toffee.

Ended up pouring the last bit out. This bottle gave me terrible hangovers, and the smell of this made me sick. Too young and earthy/herbal with too many congeners. Enjoyed at times, but this was not ready

Bought at Martins in Heritage Square (they had a single barrel pick, but I opted for the normal expression). Pours very nicely and is a lighter medium amber. Smell is very butterscotchy with pepper and caramel. Taste is butterscotch and subtle vanilla with mint, tobacco, and toffee peeking through. The finish is quite crisp with sweet honey and soft oak. Very good and complex! 4.25

Last pour from this bottle. Overall, a good whiskey, but not a good bourbon. A lot of green, young flavors that give hope to this one day being a good whiskey (with appropriate age), but at this point the herbal, woody, tangy flavors make this quite undesirable. Potential, but the Folks at Few have not had enough time to age this

This one is hard to peg down. Woody, spice and green-er licorice flavor.

While not worth the hype, it does have good notes of peppery honey caramel and a leathery finish

Hype aside, Nose: Cinnamon, brown sugar, and rye spice Mouthfeel: average Taste: Alcohol gets in the way of a lot of the flavor. Caramel and toffee notable, along with some candy notes. Honestly very good, but to my current palate, would be better at a lower proof

Second tasting of the same bottle this time over a whiskey stone in a highball. Unfortunately, the flavors don’t change much and this remains pretty uneventful as a ‘dead’ flavored whiskey, but some of the nuttier caramels and vanilla buttercream come through. Rounded flavors, so guessing this is non-chill filtered. Better than entry-level whiskeys, but still underdeveloped.

As I have progressed through the bottle, the salinity/brine and gingery caramel have really stood out.