Tastes

Nose: dickle like charcoal. Corn, orange, caramel, toffee, vanilla, gala apples. Banana Taste: strong oak throughout. Cherry, heavy corn. Creamy banana. Dense apple. Very surprised by this. Very reminiscent of Evan Williams or Dickel. The question is why does this exist other than to capitalize on craft distilleries? There’s a lot in the price range and even cheaper that’s also good like Evan Williams bonded or Jim beam bonded.

Nose: orange, lemon, starfruit, guava, butter biscuit and butterscotch. Fuji apples with a light dusting of cinnamon. Slight grass / hay must. Vanilla, lemon sorbet. Taste: very watery with caramel and a toffee after taste. heavy oak up front. maybe some light fruit notes as well. Very disappointed because the nose was so promising, but it tastes like you proofed Jameson down to 20% ABV. Maybe good for mixing I guess. Also do not ever add water it makes it taste like a soapy banana.

Nose: honey. banana cream, Benadryl grape cold tablets. Heavy sugar Taste: same as nose with a dense burnt caramel flavor. You can't really taste the oak. Time brings out some orange and apricot. Very interesting and different

Nose: burnt malt, lemon pound cake. Vanilla and apple. Caramel and burnt toffee. Heavy honey. Caster sugar and raspberry. Peat is not really present at all. Very sweet nose. Taste: sea salt and caramel with vanilla and light banana. Peat shows up immediately on the taste then transitions to a bananas foster and then ends strongly with peat and oak. Peat transforms after a while into bacon grease and burnt cheese then into burnt rubber. Leaving a few minutes after the sip really lets the peat evolve. Water brings some sweet and sharp malt notes to the front. Taste really brings out all the sherry along with some pepper but buries the malt. Finish transform into cherry chocolate covered almonds with a strong pepper finish with a heavy burnt peat taste. Letting this one sit in the bottle for a few months definitely improved it as did taking a few minutes between sips.

Nose: cherry, chocolate, sea salt, a smooth bacony peat. Charcoal, burning hay, orange / lemon zest. Taste: chocolate and cherry followed by burnt bacon / burnt tips. Sea salt and ctirus followed by a light cooling note. Midpalate shifts to reveal some sweet vanilla and powdered sugar. Been two years since I last had this. The 43% doesn't do it any favors but its still a solid offering.

Nose: funnel cake, corn, peach, pear, caramel. light vanilla Taste: Cream corn, caramel, vanilla, guava, peaches. Very very light peat. graham cracker. Water brings citrus notes and a sharp oak flavor Better than something like Toki but nothing I'd really seek out. Its almost like a hybrid of a single malt and bourbon with the flavors so it should be fairly appealing to most people at least

Nose: cherry, banana, caramel and a bit of rye spice jumps out of the glass. Taste: heavy dense oak and cherry followed by rye spice and licorice with very heavy banana. Also a bit of light honey and citrus as well. Water destroys the taste except for caramel and peach. Definitely up there with the better bourbons. Still doesn’t beat out eagle rare or wild turkey.