Laws Four Grain Straight Bourbon

The nose starts with hair spray mixed with black shoe polish followed by slightly browning apple slices, light cereal notes that transition to nutmeg, roasted chestnuts and wet bandages with light ethanol burn. The taste is a thin mouthfeel starting with that hair spray and wet shoe polish mixture followed by Apple Jacks cereal then a medium spice that fades to burnt chestnuts and used bandages with medium ethanol burn. The finish is short with bitter melon, rubber tire mulch, clay soil and wet bandages. This is just bitter with light fruit and cereal on the nose and mid-palate, but the finish is just earthy clay, bitter melon and bandages freshly removed from a pool. Comparing this to the Henry Road Malt and Centennial Wheat, this is the worst of the three and makes some of my whiskey that I rate at a 3 taste like 5-star gems. I’m not sure how Distiller put this at an 82 or how this would hit any of the important notes. Just to put this into a better perspective, Icelandic whiskey is basically sheep turds, ice, wool with some malt and is quite frankly a world class dram compared to this one. A big thank you to @ctbeck11 for the sample.

Very Nice, Goes down smooth

Not a fan on malted barley

Leather saddlebags, some ripe fruit, spicy, woody, slight harsh, grainy end. Overhyped a bit. I’ll drink it because I spent $60+ on it.

Bright, shiny, cherry candy with some mustiness to it that is more green and bread crust with some mintiness. I get a lot of wood on the nose but it's less barrel char and more straight up lumber. Taste is first a dry, dusty cherry before the familiar bourbon barrel spices poke in. Still a bit bready, especially the crust to a soft loaf of honey wheat. Overall, the best taste comparison is an unglazed cherry-filled kolache. Pretty good, no weird spikes in the flavor. A solid bourbon, though I like "weird" things, and it doesn't necessarily jump out.

Strong start but very smooth finish. Spice in the front, sweet finish.