Tastes

The nose starts with floral rye spice and an earthiness that drowns out a bit notes of charred oak. Green apple quickly appears along with a molasses sweetness. The palate is light and airy, filling the mouth with dry, charred oak and a a great burst of baking spice and pepper. Green apple immediately follows up and mixes in as it all stays mostly to the front of the mouth. It doesn’t quite show it’s age as it’s still a little simple and aggressive with each sip leaving you wanting a bit more out of it. The finish is short to medium and a lasting spiciness but short with green apple coming together with charred oak to give it a pleasant send off, but too quickly.

The nose is invitingly gentle with charred oak, banana, vanilla, fresh bread and a slight hint of baking spices the more you take it in. It is very creamy and balanced and leaves much to look forward to. The palate is somewhat rich and chewy, quickly working it’s way to the corners of the mouth with creamy charred oak and a burst of cinnamon on the middle of the tongue. It’s very much a delectable cake in a glass, very simple in the mouth but so very please to taste. You won’t pick up several notes of this or that, but what it does have is in such balance and done so well that it doesn’t need to be complex to be an experience. The finish is medium with one final burst of cinnamon while creamy, vanilla charred oak trails off as you chew on it a final few times before it’s gone. Very far from your typical Jack, a great example of what their whiskey can be.

The nose starts with off grassy with touches of vanilla and charred oak along with it. There are fruity notes, almost melon like, fruit but not so sweet. It is also a little earthy and meaty, but overall a little flat and indistinct. The palate is what dry and just about makes it to the corners of the mouth with a burst of earthy rye spice and charred oak. A wave of vanilla is underneath that providing a bit of a balance. There is almost a roasted peanut element to it as it breathes, but overall is just as indistinct as the nose. The finish is medium and slightly astringent with a quickly fading spiciness while the mouth keeps a dry, oaky feeling. This whiskey has some flaws and doesn't have much of an identity. For being barrel proof, the palate is surprisingly muddled. It can't quite be labeled easy to drink because it doesn't exactly give you a reason to come back to it. So drinkable, yes. But enjoyable? Very neutral.

The nose starts with an unmistakable note of rum that is almost wine like, followed by sweet corn, creamy cereal grains that reminds you of buttered toast, then there are some faint hints of charred oak. It is very inviting to smell, though the impression is given that the rum influence might be a bit strong. The palate is thin and simplistic. Rum is immediately dominant, staying mostly to the front of the mouth while a touch of earthy rye spice hits the back. Very faint charred oak seems to envelop it, with the corn content adding to the sweetness. The finish short to medium with a lingering rum sweetness and slightly chew oakiness. The is painfully simplistic and sweet, with the rum influence definitely being too strong. Along with being 80 proof, it is also dumbed down too much to bring out the complexities that may possibly exist in the individual whiskies. A novel and very easy to drink whiskey, but falls flat when it comes to true enjoyment of a whiskey.

The nose starts off floral and fruity, but in a soft way. Creamy, charred oak follows in a way that reminds you a fresh bread and cake. There are slight spicy notes of baking spice that would make you not realize this bourbon is wheated. It is overall very inviting and changes very little as it breathes, except to accent more cake and bread. The palate is dry and full of baking spice and dry oak that lights up the mouth very unexpectedly compared to the nose. A definite creaminess is there despite the dominance of the spice, which invites you to keep sipping and explore further. Keeping up the exploration and letting the whiskey breathes helps to tame the spice and open up the creaminess more. The whiskey gets a bit chewy and not so dry, with touches of yeast now showing up on the tail end of the palate. The finish is medium long with a lasting spiciness and a slightly astringent, but not unpleasant, dry oak lingering on the tongue and in the corners of the mouth. A bready, butteriness holds on for a moment capping off an overall lovely nose, wonderfully surprising and evolving palate and a finish that brings it all home. A little more aggressive than your usual wheated bourbons that gives you the best of both common styles of bourbon. Highly enjoyable and it will be a great disappointment when there is no more.

The nose is full of charred oak and banana with a touch of green apple and floral rye spice. It comes together to be somewhat earthy and creamy as it breathes. Very simple but enjoyable none the less. The palate is quite soft with touches of cinnamon moving across the mouth before gradually intensifying and being joined by a somewhat astringent dry oak. There are touches of the banana and fruit notes, but it is immediately overwhelmed leaving this whiskey a bit one dimensional. The finish is medium with a lingering cinnamon spiciness and dry oak. A little forgettable, but fairly easy to drink without thinking about it. Has elements you expect from 1792, but out of balance and not quite developed.

The nose starts with a rye spice that is a great split between earthy and floral along with green apple, charred oak, chinese cinnamon and light hints of toffee. It is very much MGP rye and feels more of a common rye than one that is unique to Clyde May's. The palate is very gently with rye spice that, with a bit of a chew, makes it's way to the corners of the mouth while charred oak floods over the tongue. The mouth is filled with floral notes while not much besides some hints of cinnamon make an appearance. The finish is short but spicy with floral rye lasting for a moment while the corners the corners of the mouth stay a bit tingly, although that too quickly fades. The palate and the finish absolutely do not live up to what you experience on the nose, but for a very basic rye there is nothing wrong with this.

The nose starts with a mix of charred oak, cinnamon, baked apples and vanilla cream that is rather pleasant. It almost takes on the sharp sweetness of molasses and as it breathes, it all comes together to smell wonderfully of apple crisp. The palate is very light with slight baking spices running down the sides of the mouth while sweeter notes of baked apple and vanilla go over the tongue. Charred oak follows, enveloping the mouth and bringing everything together. It is quite simple and basic and you almost forget there were apples added to the barrels. I expected stronger notes of apple, but ultimately don't feel as though that is adding much to this whiskey. The finish is short to medium with charred oak lingering before all the flavors become a bit astringent. There is spiciness that keeps the mouth tingling a little bit, but the whiskey becomes somewhat quickly forgettable. As something to sip this is perfectly fine. But for something to enjoy, this misses the mark a little bit.

The nose is very fresh with charred oak and green apple, followed up by creamy vanilla, molasses, straw and just a hint of bacon fat. It has everything you'd expect to pickup in a low proof, wheated bourbon and is very pleasant to keep visiting. The palate is very gentle and fills the mouth with a wave of vanilla and green apple that coats the mouth on top of dry oak that balances out the sweetness. A little bit of black pepper reaches the corners of the mouth to provide a welcome spiciness. On the surface this is a very simple bourbon but the flavors are present and distinct and entirely satisfying. The finish is medium with charred oak and green apple that lingers together and blends to become almost astringent but not unpleasant while a bit of a chew can still bring out the creamier notes as they get more and more distant.

The nose is a mix of charred oak and unmistakable astringency. Beyond that, the whiskey is grassy and grainy, though there are some notes of buttery vanilla. The palate fills the mouth with astringency, which is where this whiskey begins and ends. The grassiness and graininess does come through as well, but there are no unique flavors to discover. The finish is short and astringent, and overall is mostly unpleasant to drink.