Tastes

Liquor Lineup Store Pick Barrel: 6612909 Proof: 126.3 ABV: 63.65 Age: 9 years Smell: Caramel, vanilla and soft milk chocolate come to the front while wet oak and raisen cookies hold the rear together. Toasty char and brown sugar glue it all together. Taste: Char, oak, and brownsuger mix for a classic and robust “bourbon” characteristic. Slight oak spice at the end without dryness. Finish: oak and dark brown sugar stay on the palate. The finish is thick and coating leaving me with “bourbon breath” due to the lingering notes. This drinks hot but there is so much intense flavor that the experice blinds the user to the proof.

Liquor Lineup Store Pick ABV - 56% Proof - 112 Age - 4 year, 9 months Rickhouse - A-N14-D9 Barrel - ISC #4 char Barrel # - 17A10-9 Yeast Strain: FermPro 1 DSP-KY-20005 Smell: Grain sugar and caramel greet with char and dry earth undertones. Vanilla bread fills the cracks. Taste: barrel char with kitchen spices. Candy sweet sits in the front of the palate. Finish: lingering char and overall woody notes remain up to the next sip. Medium viscosity that coats the top palate and tounge well. There is an overall brightness to this sip with some “farm”. Very enjoyable. I wonder what would happen with a bit more time in the barrel.

Batch- #9 Proof - 124.3 Nose: cut grass, herbs, cereal, apple and cinnamon spice surrounding the notes. Hints of sugar cookie dough. Fresh wood can be seeked out. Taste: wood, bark, leather and oak. Bits of cookies come out on a second sip. Finish: high viscosity and it coats the mouth fully. Herbs and wet bark linger for a long finish. Chest warming from the first sip.

Store Pick: Liquor Lineup #2 Proof: 120 Barrel: Warehouse K - Floor 06 - Rick 035 Barreled: 2/4/2014 Bottled: 8/18/2023 Nose: Vanilla, tobacco, graham cracker and toasted oak. Caramel binds the notes together. Taste: Toasted oak, lingering leather and bits of caramel. Finish: Lots of char and barrel linger with a thick mouthfeel. It delivers a chest warming hug.

DSP-KY-20005 Barrel No: 17E24-2 ABV: 52.5% Proof: 105 Age: 4 years 5 months Barrel: ISC #4 Char Rickhouse location: A-N1-F8 Yeast Strain: FemPro 1 Liquor Lineup store pick Nose: cinnamon, spice, honey and brown sugar lead the way with herbs and leather swirling. Wet bark can be found with some air and time. Gramcrackers comes to mind. Taste: spicy front with cooking herbs and cinnamon. Finish: medium viscocity and long finish of herbs and tea. This was the first pour of the fresh bottle that was glassed for 20min before the review. I’ll need to visit this again. I wanted a bit more oak to compliment the spice. Overall killer bottle.

Smell: Berries, oranges, vanilla with oak that needs to be seeked out. Brown sugar lingers in the cracks. Taste: Oak, grain, orange peel, and a little tobacco and tree bark. Mouthfeel: Medium Finish: Citrus and tobacco linger. Tried neat.

Smell: Apples, cinnamon, warm leather, and a hint of honey. Distant peppercorn. Taste: Warm leather, wet bark, barrel, into toast. Mouthfeel: medium to light Finish: Quick fall with a long tail. Meaning the main experience fell a bit quickly but the secondary notes lingered.

Nose: spice, vanilla, and tobacco blend evenly with smoke and toast filing in the cracks. Notes of mint will greet you at the door. The proof is high but creates a warming environment that connects the smells. Taste: Spice, mint and tabacco with vanilla landing in the middle-back of the palate. Mouthfeel: warming with medium-high viscosity. Finish: lingering tobacco and spice hang around well into the next drink. This was a standard bottle.

Nose: Summer fruit like peach or apricots. Cinnamon and fenel punctuate the expression with bits of toffee and oak filling the cracks. Taste: Cinnamon spice and learher greet the front of the palate with oak and green pepper in the rear. Mouthfeel: Warming with medium viscosity. Finish: Oak and spices linger and feed through the entire sinus. This was a small batch, store pick.

Method: over a large round ice. Nose: Banana and caramel. Vanilla accompanies. This is hot on the nose with tons of proof. Nutty notes hit the back of the sinus. Taste: Banana, spice and oak. Banana peel and oak stay on the back of the throat near the nasal sinus. Finish: 5 min warming with great coating on the mouth. The drink lingers to the next. This was a store pick.