Knob Creek 9 Year Small Batch Bourbon

코를 찌르는 독함. 물론 켄터키버번 특유의 쨍한 와일드함을 느껴주기엔 좋지만 스트레이트, 온더락 둘다 마셔봐도 예전의 첫 놉크릭(스몰배치?)에서 느꼈던 향긋한 독함을 찾기 어렵다. (메막 느낌이랄까..) 여러모로 기대보단 아쉬운 버번.

Dark fruit, nutty, slight smoke. Nice oak and tobacco. Medium finish. Very enjoyable!

Ethanol carmel nose Taste: apples and carmel tart with a little herbal ethanol numb finish. Good sipper

The nose is so much peanut shells and ethanol. There is a sweetness to it, like caramel and confectioner’s sugar, but the ethanol is pretty tough to get through. Usually it burns off after some time in the glass or with some air in the bottle, but this sticks around. Oak and more peanut shells on the palate, with more ethanol burn through the finish. Very medicinal and not in any good way (though I struggle to think of a good way I could mean that). A little vanilla and caramel sweetness comes through oak in later sips, but that ethanol really brings a bitterness to the finish that I just don’t love. This isn’t for me.

Carmel, nilla, orange peel, high alcohol