Tastes

Nose: rye, dill, green pine, corn, butter, vanilla, olives/dill, Taste: heavy roast corn, charcoal, vanilla, butterscotch, a hint of malt, burning hay, clove, basil, cilantro, sage. Adding water brings out the oak barrel and lightens everything else while adding intense caramel. This really is a weird one. If you were blinded, you’d think it’s a rye. But there’s still the background hint of peat / charcoal. Apparently it has no rye and I saw it poured. The rye is really seemingly there but it’s not. Spirit is also really young so that might have something to do with it.

Nose: Bacon. Cheddar Cheese. Smoked Salmon. Vanilla, Caramel, Blood orange, marshmallow fluff, cilantro, lemon Taste: Bacon, buttered popcorn, oak, creamy caramel / toffee, smoked salmon, lemon, lime, figs, roasted peanuts, Water brings out all the herbal notes. Cilantro, rosemary, sage, bayleaf. It also brings out a lot of the vanilla creamy notes. Salmon is actually the dominant note in this whiskey.

Nose: Dense caramel and heavy red apple, brown sugar, peanut butter, light oak and a bit of smoke. Taste: Heavy oak with peanut butter and red apple. Brown sugar and vanilla with a spicy rye after taste. Almost a pear note in there. There is also a vague hint of banana. Goes down easy, almost watery.

Nose: cake malt, lemon, oats, light cream, brown sugar, apple, cherry, Taste: light coffee, cinnamon, brown sugar, maraschino cherries, red apple Dry mouthfeel and aftertaste. Water brings out more of the actual oat notes while adding some oak and increasing the maltiness. Really surprised how much this tastes like a bourbon. Definitely could be used for sweeter cocktails.

Nose: Ethanol, plum, very sour and underripe grapefruit, butter biscuit, honey, vanilla Taste: lemon, grapefruit, melon, ginger and herbal grass, sage, peach, green apple, fig, caramel, light honey

Nose: orange marmalade, honey, butter biscuit, lemon, plum, papaya Taste: slight wet grass, caramel, lemon, lychee, papaya, Its like a diet redbreast. Definitely more fruity than stuff like West Cork / Jameson. Sherry influence is barely there

Nose: buttered popcorn, caramel, lemon, basil, blonde roast espresso, vanilla. Charcoal Taste: roast peanuts, caramel, buttery vanilla, basil, sage, chocolate, sea salt, steak, black pepper, lavender, Always the best. Always.

Nose: heavy oak and cherry. Vanilla and light caramel with clove and cinnamon. Taste: heavy oak and cherry up front that subsides to the classic peanut butter banana creaminess of Beam. Ends in slight clove and cinnamon with almost a bit of dill. Well balanced, not as much as eagle rare though. Classic beam product so if you don't like that you should pass.

Ardbeg peat. Intense caramel,lemon, orange, Bacon almost beef fat. Sage. Oak / wood, nectarine, cherry. Sea salt

Light pancake malt. Heavy lemon. Figs and dates. Very light but vegetal peat. Almost like drinking wet grass. Lime. Dates. Plums