Tastes

nose has milk chocolate, light coffee, vanilla, oak and cinnamon notes. sweet and warm front with cereal grain notes and cacao, but mostly corn. sweet, woody... warm. some spice on finish. well balanced. excellent value.

Revisited 5.29.21 Sweeter, more well-balanced and more caramely than I remember. Still very dry, and on the edge of bitter on the Finish. Salted peanuts in there, and plenty of oak. Not my favorite, but I would bump it up to 3.5 this one is all spicy all over. Woody notes on the nose with some cinnamon. light roasted coffee. and some fruitiness warm spice front with black pepper some light caramel mid. hints of eucalyptus with toased barrel on finish. warm throughout.

toffee, light caramel and spice on the nose, toast and grains some chocolate notes or light roast coffee. toasty Barrell finish great value and excellent for an old fashioned!

very distinctive memories of stouts and porters I drank 15 years ago in the Pacific Northwest hit me hard on the finish of the first taste. nose has dark chocolate covered bananas, toffee, ripe fruit. medium roast coffee notes at the back: bitter, dry then hardwood lumber. really enjoyed this!

Revisited a second bottle of this in April of 2021. It's been an interesting two years really focusing on American whiskey. I do believe my interpretation of this would be ever so slightly different today, but it's close. It reminds me of prunes packed in a Maduro cigar box. It remains an outstanding value and I will be sure that every time I get the chance for a bottle, I'll take it nose is vanilla, over ripe fruit, barrel and tobacco soft mouthfeel, warm and smooth and oily Carmel and tobacco front with vanilla notes cinnamon and clove finish mixed with barrel. Peanut and peanut butter all over a few drops of water opened it up a little. excellent value at $35!

opened it up with a bit of filtered water. nose: hot, cereal grain toasted hazlenut and light roast coffee, warm spices spicy, cinnamon and clove front, toasted oaky finish, new baseball bat. virtually no sweetness this just isn't my favorite type of bourbon.

revisited in August of 2021: I rated about 120 whiskeys since rating this one and I had a chance to revisit it... Nose shows some nice rye notes along with the caramel, baking spices and vanilla. Soft on the palate, mildly sweet throughout, mid has a lot of dry oak. Medium finish rounds out with thoughts of a mounds bar: dark chocolate and shredded coconut. I still believe it's an outstanding value, but at this point I can't give it a 4... This really is a rock solid bourbon for the price. Caramel sweet nose with hints of spice and vanilla. Sweet, full bodied and rich with a long finish a bit of char