Alberta Premium Dark Horse

Fun whiskey. Definitely has a dark flavor, you need to be in the mood for sweet. Never had a whiskey remind me of beer but on the finish think of your favorite dark beer.

surprising sweet, dark flavour but not as smooth.

Particularly for the price (sub-$30 in Canada), Dark Horse is a pretty fabulous whisky. A lot of people take shots at Canadian whisky for the law that it can contain up to 1/11th additive, but the Dark Horse actually brilliantly uses that law to its advantage, mixing in a small amount of sherry and some bourbon (rumoured to be pulled from the stocks that would go into Old Grand Dad/Basil Hayden's). Flavours of oak, vanilla. Toffee, caramel, and a very bourbon-y kind of vanilla. Fairly big rye spice, some herbal character, charcoal, berries, brown sugar. Raisins, sourdough bread. Peppery rye spice on the taste; sweetness with a spicy twang. Licorice. Faint wood smoke. Supposedly Beam-Suntory is going to begin distributing this in the US under a slightly different name, and frankly that's a pretty smart business decision. It's tasty stuff.