Tastes

I liked this so much more than the Talisker Storm. Heavy smoke, iodine, chemical fire smell on the nose but then it opens up to something smooth and pleasant once sipped. After letting the glass breathe for a bit it the worst harshness of the nose dissipates and it simply becomes an easy drinking scotch.

Exceptionally smooth. Wasted on me, in the sense that I am certain people with better palettes of mine would get more out of this, but it was delicious

Fruity, spicy, with strong grain flavors. There's a flavor almost like maraschino cherry. There's a decent amount of burn. Not a ton of brown sugar or vanilla which are normally the first flavors I taste in whiskey, but it is sweet.

Saline, rubber, smoke. almost reminds me of chlorinated water or iodized salt. If you let it linger a bit, there is a lot of sweetness and richness. Good mouthfeel and no weird lingering flavor but the salt is so strong it makes it hard to tease anything else out.

I get a lot of grain flavor from this. Standard nose of caramel, oak, alcohol. Less sweet than my usual picks, and rough. Makes a hell of an old fashioned.

Neat, this reminded me of watered-down black velvet or Canadian club. It just tastes bland, watery, with a mouthfeel to match. No standouts in the nose - standard caramel, brown sugar, and grain notes. It works fine as a mixer as long as you're not expecting the whiskey to do heavy lifting. It's fine in a manhattan, adequate in something like a paper plane. In that respect it's like any bottom-shelf whiskey. I got this for free, and I'm glad I did because if I spent money on it I'd be really disappointed with what I got.