Tastes

Like eating a bowl of steel cut oats by a fire on the beach. Sea spray mixes with smoke and blows right in your face. It's perfectly sweet, bone dry and smoky, with just enough seaweed and brine to counter the sweet malt and bbq smoke

Wet heather, honey, rich malt, not sure how much Talisker or Caol Ila is used but the smoke is only an accent like a storm cloud in the distance, shadows of mushroom, a hit of spindrift in the finish, lingering orange oil, smooth, like Cardhu with an edge. I would order it at a bar for sure. I'd probably keep a bottle for nights I'm not in the mood for heavy smoke.

Back to back with Ardbeg: smoother, oilier, less smoke & char, a better flavor overall but still not worth the extra $30

Very light, hints of honey and orchard fruit, something deep down that's reminiscent of iodine but if I didn't know any better I'd have expected it to be unpeated, doesn't commit to any one flavor profile but it is incredibly smooth, for a second I thought the bartender was watering it down

Buttery, toffee and banana, floral, hot, raw grain

Chewy cereal, flowers, tea, sweet sherry

Buttery, floral, wet heather, a little hot without water, almost Irish but with a more mature finish, tobacco and black pepper

Honey, pancakes, chewy cereal, milky tea with lemon, toffee, orchard fruit, dry finish

Nothing I don't like about it, but for the money I think I'd rather just go with Ardbeg or Laphroaig. Nice peat, obviously, a lot of tarmac and tidal pool notes, spicy, a little bit of sweet malt, but overall dry. I will gladly finish this bottle but I might not buy another.

I might give this a higher score if I could get into bourbon. This isn't as sweet as most I've had, so that's good. Vanilla, caramelized sugar, orange peel, wood, a little black pepper and a dryish finish. Pretty well balanced. Something reminds me of appalachian mtn rain.