Tastes

[LOOK] Green straw [NOSE] Caramel malts, roast coffee, milk chocolate, vanilla custard [PALATE] Sweet peat, rose water, taffy, shortbread, biscuits, bubble gum, nectar, nectarine, almond milk [FINISH] Tame, clear, medium length, more caramel malts, delicate smoke, candied trout [MOUTHFEEL] Gentle, creamy, light

[LOOK] Cough syrupy amber [NOSE] Big dry vanilla and oak notes, honey comb, pungent Juicy Fruit, stretched salt water taffy, lavender simple syrup, touches of rose water, Turkish delights [PALATE] Honeysuckle, candied citrus, vanilla extract bursts, suggests nut brittles and toffee, but summer fruit punch dominates, oak on the edges provides stability [FINISH] Long, warm, sweet, spicy and aggressive near the end, fresh watermelon, lemon juice, and Starbursts dominate [MOUTHFEEL] Dynamic, some wood tannin, mostly sweet smoothness with tart edging

[LOOK] Pale gold, straw [NOSE] Lightly caramelized sugars, browned salted butter, melted dark chocolate, stewed strawberries, goat manure, sour peatiness, barleywine [PALATE] Ripe fall fruits, dry malted barley, peaches, steamed cedar, faint gasoline, background tame peat, pumpkin spice, walnut oil, Oreo cookie [FINISH] Long and hot, savory and peaty, some residual spiciness [MOUTHFEEL] Pretty hot, peat stays for duration of palate and finish, a fierce whiskey, water opens up smoke into warm breadiness

[LOOK] Honey, clear [NOSE] Roasted chestnuts, medical sanitizers, lurking stewed apples/pears, pecan shell, cinnamon sugar, anise, sour peat [PALATE] Stone fruit pit, kiwi skin, graham cracker, smoked fish, sweet on the edges, center is peaty and green smoke [FINISH] Long, soft, prickly and spicy, develops wood char and smoke [MOUTHFEEL] Prickly, smooth, oscillates between tender and sharp

[LOOK] Straw yellow [NOSE] Burnt tire rubber, char grilled meats, golden browned marshmallow skin, slight hickory smoke, roasted malts, with oxygen char fades to cloves, baking spices [PALATE] Charcoal brickettte, beef fat gravy, cracked green peppercorn, cured salmon skin, heavy cream underneath, vague shrouded light sugars [FINISH] Long, BBQ char gives way to smoked fish, then to oven roasted Caribbean spices, residual smokiness wanders between different flavors [MOUTHFEEL] Loads of barrel char and smokiness, almost overwhelmingly so, flavor movement and dynamic nature of smoke/char keeps it fresh, interesting

[LOOK] Light, clear gold [NOSE] Rotting apples, vegetable broth steam, vinegar, rice crackers, opens up into faint biscuity notes [PALATE] White tea, wet leather, cold smoked fish, burnt toffee, nut brittle, chocolate malt, coffee [FINISH] Dry smokiness, lingering roasted malts, long, dynamic [MOUTHFEEL] Unusually dynamic, almost effervescent, oddly satisfying

[LOOK] Light amber [NOSE] Dried flowers, lavender, rosehip oil, gummi bear, gelatin, mustard seed, some biscotti [PALATE] Really corky, still fairly herbal, never breaks through to caramelized notes, grassy, English tea [FINISH] Short, hay, grassy, green [MOUTHFEEL] Smooth, thin, pleasant feel, not dynamic, lacks movement

[LOOK] Honey [NOSE] Tart plums, some stewed strawberries, fresh opened grape jelly, a subtle but insistent peatiness obscures faint delicacies, kiwi flesh, black tea [PALATE] Cavendish smoke, overripe blueberries, green peat, caraway, citric acid, cold smoked charcuterie, balances tart smoke with candied fruit sweetness [FINISH] Robust with abrupt changes in flavor, peat to raw biscuit dough to smoked fish, perplexing [MOUTHFEEL] Smooth due to lower proof, easy to drink, notes and flavors really need to be teased past the peat curtain