Corsair Triple Smoke American Single Malt

Unique flavor with nice heat and tons of smoke.

I’m a sucker for smoke. I like my smoke flavor to be just short of ‘house on fire.’ This is really good but I think I’m underwhelmed compared to the regular small-batch Triple Smoke. I don’t have that one in the house now so I’m going by memory but I remember loving that one for its smoky character while this one seems more restrained. Ultimately this Single Malt is probably the better expression but it has me wanting to revisit the original.

Sweet and smoky. Not too rough

Big pear and plum flavor with a little smoke nose; smooth, thin, watery caramel and stone fruit; surprisingly little smoke; finishes with some chemical and smoky notes

Batch 269, bottle 456/600. Nose is cherry and wood forward, with a smokey rubber note hanging over. Interesting and changed throughout my dram, getting sweeter and tangy towards the end. I got a moment of smoked sweet barbeque at the front of the palate that changed to the burnt rubber and iodine of peated Scotch. Again it changed as a sipped, bringing the sweeter dried fruit notes forward with the smoke become more definitive. The finish stays long and iodine/smoke. Very long at times. This is a great interesting whisky, and worth the buy for the enthusiast.