Tastes

Classic notes of a sour mash aged in oak. Some nice wood spice and a lingering heat. Plenty sweet and works well straight, on ice, and mixed.

Ethanol and cereal nose. Apple Jacks palette - sweet/tart/grain. No real bite or spice to mention. Palette flavors hold the linger.

Caramel apple nose with a tart smoky flavor and some hints of spicy heat. Charred fruit lingers.

Very mild on the nose spicy ethanol. Tasting has a tinge of a bite with vanilla and herbal notes sitting atop muted baking spices, not cinnamon forward, just warms you up. The sweetness dissipates into a faint leathery smokiness that holds on surprisingly long for a flavor so mild. Overall, great for sipping with an emerging variety of light flavors. But also great for mixing at a price this low for the quality of the spirit. Personally it checks all the boxes.

An unexpected, but not unpleasant, tartness on the nose. Flat taste of the usual baking spices with a wooden undertone. Quick oily linger. Adding ice helps to bring out some sweetness. Fine whiskey for mixing, but not my go to for sipping.

You know what this tastes like

Peat with a bite and a smoke that sits. Cut it in half and only the peat hangs around. Currently, not my thing at all.

Sweet and smooth with a mildly tart linger

Very complex flavors that starts with a spicy heat and calms to an oat and sweetness that morphs with the light wood and smoke flavors before a fairly light linger returns to the heat.

Hot smoke with a similar singular linger