Compass Box Transistor

Compass Box is famous for doing bespoke whiskies to certain stores, restaurants and bars. In this amazing trend, they have worked with a brewing company to develop a very affordable blend called Transistor. Bottled at 43%abv, this has been created to be mixed or paired with beer. On the nose, peaches, wet wall paint, bread, and very yeasty. Not remarkable, but not bad at all. On the palate, it gave me a wonderful white Kit kat chocolate; heart of the pineapple and oranges. Again this yeasty note; a spongy cake. There is youthness hiding beautifully in the yeast. Butter. Aftertaste is all about sawdust, a great cuban cigar, salt and pepper. Tropical fruitiness appear along the saltiness and the tobacco. Overall, for a 50 -60 dollar whisky, this is actually very good. Not overly complex or remarkable, this is a good deal for your money. Very enjoyable, i could have this one any day. My score for it is 83 over 100.

On the first whiff it is not really different from the Hedonism. The grain is pretty dominant making it very soft, which is not something i personally look for in a whisky. It has the same candy like sugary arome to it but with more body, which is caused by more spicyness, which i think is because it has malt in it. Overall in not really impressed by the nose. All right the malt and caramell show up on the palate with a little bit of pleasent bitternes, which goes on longer in the finish, but it still has the overly soft character of the grain Not impressed by this at all

This collaboration between Compass Box and BrewDog is a UK-only release meant to be drunk alongside beer as a Boilermaker. I tried a small sample on its own and found it lacking in personality. There’s grain in this blend, so it’s a lot softer than many Compass Box whiskies. The malt component includes Clynelish, but I couldn’t detect any of its characteristics.