Bainbridge Battle Point Organic Wheat Whiskey

Gold color with a light mouthfeel. Maple, cinnamon roll, doughy, and young on the noise. Cinnamon, wheat thins, and green wood on the palate. Good but still needs a year or two in the barrel.

Nose - Sweet vanilla caramels, bit of raw ethanol bite, uncooked cinnamon roll dough, uncooked monkey bread, brown sugar. Taste - Sweet vanilla at first, transitions to a yeasty uncooked sweet bread dough, cinnamon heat, light ethanol bite, buttery mouthfeel, weird offputting green sapling oaky bitter. Finish - Lingering oaky bittersweet, almost splenda like sweetness, light cinnamon burn. Score - 67/100 Final Thoughts - This had an interesting nose that showed promise, but unfortunately fell flat. It smelled young, tasted young, was all over the place. Dominating flavor on the palate was if they forgot about a sweet bread dough on the counter and it started to ferment & develop a bit of alcohol. The young ethanol bite was present on the palate, and I guess what did it for me was there was this constant splenda-like sweetness throughout. I'm glad smaller distilleries are trying to get into the whiskey world, but this is an example of what not to do. Pushing out young product that was quickly aged in microbarrels (if that since they're 10 gallon). Really glad I've constantly passed on this bottle.

smooth, caramel, oaky. not complex, but a lot of body.