Tastes

Nose: sweet, vanilla, sour apple, pepper Taste: butterscotch, vanilla, candied apple, little spice (not a lot) chocolate. You definitely have some nice Irish notes from the blended Irish whiskey a little more complex for an Irish, much like the original founders reserve, but you do have a silky back end from the rum barrels. Great accompaniment for the already smooth Irish whiskey, having the end of rum cask really adds to it.

Nose: BBQ sauce, smoky, fire, peaty, thick salt air. Taste: oily smoke, peaty campfire. Sweet and sour smoothness, thick wet peppery ending.

Definitely get the green apple from nose to palette. Has some other fruity notes to it as well. Creamy up front (Irish whiskey) then definitely has more of the sour apple in the back and finishes well. Other notes, woody, oak. Vanilla, shortbread. Certainly a difference from the regular Irishman original, but not bad from this product line.

Sweet Irish whiskey up front with chocolate end. Maple and oak tastes in the middle.