Tastes

“Whiskey 🥃 Grilling Time Review!” Dalmore 15 Year Alexander Murray Single Malt Cask Strength Distilled in 1999 Barrels: Matured in Ex-Bourbon and Multiple Ex-Sherry Casks ABV: 55.9% Taste Notes: Nose: Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream 🍨 with molasses and vanilla bean. I get this sense of walking into Farrs Ice Cream Polar on a summer afternoon Front: Sweet bomb of vanilla dried fruit, than a banana split with baking spice. Back/Finish: Smoky honey BBQ ends this beautiful complex journey. The cask strength really gives it coat mouthful and lingers. This definitely is sipper and I don’t think I go back to any the Dalmore now. Vadim Perlovskiy cheers good sir “May every hair on your head turn into a candle to light your way to heaven, and may God and His Holy Mother take the harm of the years away from you salud!”

“Whiskey Grilling Time Review!” Santa Fe Spirits Colkegan Single Malt Whiskey Mashbill: A combination of 70% malted barley 30% mesquite-smoked malted barley Aged in used bourbon barrels in a warehouse that experiences tremendous fluctuations in temperature and humidity, accelerating the aging process. Even though it is from New Mexico you might mistakenly call it a Scotch and for good reason Colkegan comes pretty darn close. Santa Fe Spirits is owned by an Englishman, and everything about the packaging and brand design evokes it. Even the name derived from the owner’s, Colin Kegan calls up misty moors and seaweed-clogged fishing harbors, not the spare high desert of the American Southwest. Nose: It reminds me being in a brewery and smelling a pale honey beer than macadamia nut brittle, vanilla, South West BBQ all sets up like your outside next to the ocean and enjoying the a beautiful sunny afternoon. Front: Delicate and smooth with a spice of black pepper, clove, vanilla like late spring in the Pacific northern coast of Monterrey Bay, CA shore grass, wet garden, barbecue, and damp surf city road from the ocean spray. Finish: This finish is long, meaty heat that goes down smooth for days. It’s like taking a bite of a sweet perfectly cook Hawaiian BBQ rib. In my my book this is a magical American Single Malt that just takes you places and makes you wonder. “May you week be full of relaxation and shenanigans!” Ballyhoo!

“Whiskey 🥃 Grilling Time Review!” Elijah Craig 18yr 🦄 Official Website: Distillery: Heaven Hill Release Date: Ongoing (Annual, typically 4th quarter) ABV: 45% Age: 18 Years Mashbill: 78% Corn, 12% Malted Barley, 10% Rye Price: $150 (2019) Nose: Zest citrus hits the nose, toasted oak, honeysuckle, vanilla bean, classic old school bourbon with life! Its sweetness is perfect with some hearty oak notes that balanced nose. Front: Like the nose it citrus butter sweet orange than a vanilla and oak start to coat the mouth, with brown sugar, caramel, and a fruit hits again. The oak remains, but there is a floral fruit side. Back/Finish: Pairing with the cigar i still get a good charr oak and then pulls away during the finish and quickly I get many of the fruitier complexity floral flavors. It lingers slowly and I bet with this cigar goes for a good minute making is a slow & low sipper My magical 🧙‍♂️ afternoon cheers WGT Family!

Night Watch’s Oban Bay Nose: Honey Sickle bread Ripe Peaches 🍑 , faint flint, faint strawberry, cherry candies, cocoa powder, and a buttery note to the malt. Front: Malty with very floral peach forward and cherry, damp oak, and cocoa. End/Finish: Sweet spice and heat come slowly and lingers for a good minute “So have dram and love the moment my friends!” “Cheers!”

“Whisk(e)y 🥃 Grilling Time Review!” High West Distillery Campfire 🔥 Barrel Select 2019 Aged in Ruby Port barrels for 1yr 9 months Mash: blend of Scotch, Bourbon, and Rye ABV: 48.6% Taste Note: Front: Maple bourbon BBQ sauce, grilled peaches and Dr. Pepper. It’s like your starting a grill session outside by the seas dock. Sea 🌊 spray Front: Sand wood, pepper jerky, spicy Licorice but these a buzz zing that lingers for days that I swear it’s a smoke blood orange zest Back/Finish: This is were the the smoke blood orange zest continues with a white chocolate. A floral note that ends slowly with a sweet somky continues. I rate this a 97 and one of my top Campfires Select I love. So complex I might to return to this again. The price point at 80 is prefect and I buy this all day. Cheers High West for this magnificent blend and sweet smoky goodness and go 9ers!

This was a solid bourbon for the price point and craft. This was candy cherry with a chocolate tobacco delight from nose to finish. The Finish turn into a beautiful sweet cherry spice that zing for a good minute

“Whisk(e)y Grilling Time Review!” So I did Greek Kabobs and in that thought I was like why not open this unicorn up as well. E.H. Taylor Jr. Amaranth Grain of the Gods Amaranth grain is most likened to wheat, and was once a staple of the Aztecs, used in numerous food items. They also used the grain to form images of their gods during the sacred month of Huitzilopochitli, and then at the end of the month ate them in order to take in the gods, which explains the origins of this bourbon's name Release Date: July 2019 ABV: 50% Age: NAS (Over 10 years per the company press release) Mash-Bill: Buffalo Trace Mashbill #1 that replaces rye with amaranth as the flavoring grain - corn, amaranth, and malted barley) Price: $70 (2019) to 1200.00 secondary Nose: Cherry 🍒 bomb at first than takes a quick turn to fall baking spices, dark chocolate and seasoned oak come together in a rich, fragrance. The aroma is incredible with the first pour and seemed to even get better with time sitting. It’s intensity of this can go for days. Nevertheless the aroma remained complex, inviting, and most interesting with a unique almost like it was barrel in a wine cask just before release. Front: A light mouthfeel is noticeable, but this is countered with a first a zing of spices of flavors. The wine or sherry note is the zing, honey, toasted caramel, summer floral notes, and touch of of smoke almost scotch like characteristics. It’s a freak of nature how this kinda has a slight undertone of blended of a high proof whiskey/scotch. Back/Finish: Sweet cigar tease at first, leather Christmas spice quickly developed as well. The zing in the front becomes bitter along with a tannic note. It’s the lingering beauty feels that it moves to fast and doesn’t last too long. Buffalo Trace has many experiments in the works, and in recent years has chosen to honor E.H. Taylor by releasing limited experimental variations of the brand. Attributing this to Taylor’s persona, Buffalo Trace has stated it “honors Taylor’s enduring spirit of innovation and commitment to exceptional whiskey.” The tenth unique release in the Taylor lineup, Amaranth is the sixth special release and the second to use a unique mashbill. However, while Four Grain had four grains in the mashbill, they still remained the most commonly used grains - corn, rye, wheat, and malted barley. Amaranth is the first of its kind, with no other previous bourbon using the grain in its mashbill. This is surprising considering distilleries like Corsair have released Grainiac (9 grain mashbill) done a review one and Insane in the Grain (12 grain mashbill) whiskeys - none of which used amaranth. This is a unique dram from the gods and damn lucky to be able to get a bottle to review. “A feast is made for laughter, and whisk(e)y maketh merry!” Cheers!