Tastes

Boro Bourbon and Brews Nose: Sweet tarts light honey and maple syrup. A bit of alcohol and green tea 1st sip: Light at first then gets heavier. Vanilla sugar cookie turns into bitter barrel char. 2 sip more of the same, and I am not the biggest fan. Simple and astringent. 

Boro Bourbon and Brews Nose : Inviting molasses and baking spices and carmel popcorn. First sip: Has all the expected classic bourbon notes you want. Real soft like silk finishes chocolate pie. Second sip: There is a sweet char note I can't find the words to describe. Overall I liked it! 2 thumbs up. One thing that surprised me is it doesn't have that banana not I get in majority Jack Daniels.

Bourbon flight on Kentucky trip Nose: Orange creme pop with vanilla ice cream. A hint of grass and green tea notes 1st sip did not disappoint. Everything that is on the nose with a bit of orange sourpatch kid on the mid palate. 2 sip: dipping more in the direction of a rich orange candy slice With water it become more herbal tea notes with a chai spice on the finish. The nose goes more floral. I have been looking forward to tasting New Riff and this was delightful.

From my Orgin Series Tasting Box Nose: Is sourdough,spicy brown sugar, I do get that chocolate powder that I see in other reviews. 1st sip: It has pressence, loads of vanilla, then white chocolate and red pepper 2nd sip: I get a serious spicy char and molasses note on the finish with a little nore of that chocolate powder With water: brought out wood notes, vanilla and oak As far as bourbon goes this is pretty solid.

Got this from a tasting box. Definitely excited to see what that cherry wood has to offer. The nose first this is carmel green apple in a field of grass. This takes me to the fair with licorice and cotton candy notes for me. First sip definitely a bit harsh at first but opens up and translates the nose nicely. The finish is long and satisfying as this feels like a fuller rye Second sip that grassy note leads the way to a carmel candy apple with that licorice and spice on the finish. Almost as if you dropped that candy apple in the field, picked it up and took a bite. I dont hate it. Added water and it took that harsh note from the front to the midpalate. Thinned it out but also balanced it out. I could see this nice on ice. I do love rye whiskey and for me this hits the spot. I think that cherry wood helps play toward those candy notes a rye can have. Overall I would drink this again.

I am going through the Orgin Series Tasting Box I got on New Years. Looking forward to my first Bardstown. Nose for me goes cinnamon spice part hot tamale and and part cinnamon sugar. A sweet molasses and with a maple tannin note. Palate is thin young and spicy. Cherry aftertaste and cinnamon again. Finish is tannins and barrel char and red pepper. Overall this is not my favorite but was happy to get to try some of Bardstown. I do enjoy how a vanilla bean and carmel aroma fill the air while the glass sits and when you add water those notes get added to the palate which is nice. I like it with water or on a rock.

Bottle from our Single Malt Club N: A maritine peat fire is going out. You have an open box of raisins that have gotten hot from being out in the sun and you have bandaids on all your fingers. Peat, raisins, medicinal P: Coats mouth with a blackberry pepper jam on burnt toast. F: Finish is mint and medicinal and medium.

A interesting store pick from Golden Bear. The botte says at least 15 years but the age was disclosed at 17 years. N: Typical Dickel with a grape Flintstones vitamins. Behind that there is like a mixed berry smoothie sweetness. P: I get the same things on the palate F: Medium and soft. There is a spearminty finish

I was at the end of this bottle and the hot tamales flavor at the very start of the palate surprised me. I have tried this with friends and this whiskey has always delivered on tabacco and leather notes. But at the end i cant shake the hot tamales on the front of the palate. N: Vanilla cake then there is tabacco and leather. P: Hot cinnamon like a hot tamale, leathery and a small amount of oak F: Short and flat. Easy drinking with a slight hint of vanilla cake

Pub night with another bottle from Scotland. This one was an absolute delight. The nose delivered what you would expect and did nothing to prepare you the complete opposite thing you were expecting on the palate. Water sweetened the palate and opened it up in a way that made me very happy to have the chance to have a dram! N: burnt orange smoke from a fire just started toffee burnt applewood, honey, baked apples. P: Earthy, deep smoke, orange and cloves F:Long minty eucalyptus