Knob Creek Small Batch Bourbon (NAS)

I can appreciate and respect that Knob Creek is a well made whiskey, but I've also tasted enough whiskey in my life to know that it's just not to my own preferences, taste-wise. Flavour is dominated by that corny, musty, peanut buttery Beam yeast note, sweet creamed corn, cinnamon, maple syrup, and big oak--but strong oak, with a kind of artificiality or plasticity to it that throws me off. Earthy, leathery. It's a BIG, dry whiskey, full of tannic oak flavours, though what I've always found interesting about it is how relatively muted the old bourbon standby flavour of vanilla is here. Another on the list of bourbons that I won't turn down, but don't actively seek out. I'd much rather move up the Beam Small Batch ladder and go with a bottle of barrel-proof Booker's.