Tastes

Nose - Light peaty smoke, sweet salty brine, apples, honeydew melon. Taste - Immediately a sweet briny smoke, light bitterness like that of an oversteeped black tea. Toasted wet seaweed, toasted oats and toasted malted barley. Finish - Salty smoky seaweed, light bitterness like burnt wet seaweed, salted green tea caramel-like sweetness. Long lingering briny smoke. Light honeydew melon sweetness makes a background appearance. 80/100

Nose - Sweet vanilla, green apples, hint of cherry, ripe bosc pears, a cereal sweetness like that of Honey Smacks cereal. Taste - Vanilla brown sugar sweetness, very buttery/oily mouthfeel, cinnamon heat, lightly bitter like if you burnt an apple peel. Finish - Lingering cinnamon warmth, lightly bitter orange pith, muted candied orange peel, light bitter oak like that you get from an oaked chardonnay. 82/100

Nose - Very soft tropical nose of spicy vanilla, banana runts candies, lightly toasted coconut, buttery pineapple upside down cake, milk chocolate. Taste - Immediately get a sweet oaky vanilla, very buttery and rich caramel, subtle hint of a coconut milk pineapple curry, a very toasted sugar sweetness, like the top of a tropical vanilla sugar creme brule topping. Finish - Lingering warmth, spicy oak that has been tamed a bit by milk or coconut milk, a rock candy-like sweetness that transitions into a slightly spicy oak bitterness. 88/100

Nose - Faint fruity and subtle peat, fresh hay, Asian pears, hint of rosemary? green apples. Taste - Very refreshing and herbal pear/apple sweetness, subtle smoke like that of an apple grilled over charcoal. An herbaly sweet mint/basil water infusion. Finish - Lingering sweet smokey pear/Asian plum, slightly medicinal light bitterness like that of a plum seed. Hint of a matcha/iced green tea. 89/100

Nose - Very fruity floral sweet aroma, faint candied plums, baked apples, Asian pears, faint hint of fresh hay, and very light floral honey. Taste - Hits the tongue spicy sweet with a slightly sour apple taste, hint of bitterness like that of a slightly charred baked apple skin, more floral honey. Tastes like an apple orchard with a cider mill in the background, with freshly mowed grass. Finish - Lingering warmth followed by a light bitterness as if you bit into an apple seed. Imagine a really juicy Asian pear that has been drizzled with a light floral honey, the juice has diluted the honey sweetness a bit, but it still lingers on the tongue. 90/100

Nose - Corn syrup stewed cherries, strawberry hard candies, milk chocolate, stale/flat diet/splenda cherry vanilla coke. Taste - Initially very thin, sweet cinnamon vanilla butterscotch, milk chocolate covered cherries, hint of salted caramel, light oaky bitterness that seems to be a cross of oak and orange pith. Finish - Light cinnamon heat, lingering splenda-like diet cherry vanilla coke sweetness. More oaky bitterness that's now more like an unsalted peanut shell that accidently got burnt. 82/100

Nose - Subtle nose of vanilla, stale cherry coke, slight hint of salted peanuts, and what seems to be a faint yeasty fried dough, like if you were to smell a box of freshly fried donuts from someone passing on the sidewalk. Taste - Very thin and watery mouthfeel. Sweet vanilla caramel, milk chocolate, nougat, lightly roasted peanuts. Finish - Fades fairly quickly with a lingering sweetness like if you took a drink of a watered down cherry coke. Faint cinnamon spice at the very end. 78/100

Nose - Very hot initially, so best to let it rest a bit. You get cherry, granny smith apples, honey roasted peanuts, salted roasted peanuts, vanilla coke, and a cinnamon sweetness. Taste - Hits the tongue with vanilla, butterscotch, peanut brittle, Spanish peanuts (red skin), cherry coke, English toffee covered in bitter dark chocolate. Finish - Lingering warmth from the proof, but hints of salted Spanish peanuts, cinnamon spice, salted almond dark chocolate, bitter coffee, and a slightly bitter oak. 90/100

Nose - Sweet vanilla, butterscotch, sweet corn, brown sugar simple syrup, faint hint of sweet mint. Taste - Spiced dark chocolate, dark caramel, cinnamon spice, cracked black pepper, an herbaly sweet mint, very stubtle dill and a very buttery mouthfeel. Finish - Lingering warmth of cinnamon spice, turns lightly bitter like if you were trying to strip the bark off of a young green tree branch. 82/100

Nose - Vanilla, hint of cherry, brown sugar, rising bread dough in that I get a slight ethanol/yeasty/wheat/rye smell off of it. Taste - Vanilla cherry butterscotch that starts out sweet but turns a little bitter like the sugar was slightly burnt. Cinnamon spice. Finish - Cinnamon spice lingers and there's also this light sour/bitterness that seems to come from like a dark cherry or a bunch of other dark fleshed stone/pit fruits. 81/100