Larceny Barrel Proof Bourbon Batch B524

Mildest but quite possibly best nose for an LBP. Dusty peanut shell, oak furniture, caramel hard candy, soft vanilla, rick house funk and barrel char. Lowest ethanol I’ve experienced for the expression meaning so low as to be barely perceptible. Palate brings candied ginger, hazelnut, nutmeg, caramel apple, grilled buttered corn, cocoa powder, and chili pepper. Spicy with out being “hot”. Flavors are rich and densely layered. Super long finish brings some fiery warmth with black pepper, maraschino cherry, rich oak, cinnamon bear candy, leather, and tobacco. Mouthfeel is full bodied and chewy. This is it; the one we’ve been waiting for. The finest of the series I have tasted. At $79.99, it’s amazingly good for the price and the first LBP that can hold a candle to Elijah Craig Barrel Proof releases. I hope future releases hit this high mark. Buy, buy, buy.

Sweet caramel snd vanilla sums this up. Very good

Sweet and spicy without being hot. A little goes a long way, with a couple ounces lasting a couple hours Somewhat viscous

Thick sweet with woody savory throughout. Excellent edition that is noticeably better than the January version. It’s got some different layers and has developed nicely after a few drinks.

Nice medium amber color, not overly long legs swirled in the glass. Nose is strong apple butter and a hint of barn hay, maybe some cocoa. Palate still brings apple butter with cocoa more prominent and the proof brings spicy pepper to the tongue. Finish lingers nicely, mellower than the initial pepper would foretell, more sweetness of the apple butter and fall spice. This is nice but pretty basic. Ice cuts the initial pepper and lets the sweet apple shine a bit more but eliminates the finish, neither a positive or negative, just different. Inadvertently bought another bottle. I usually make a point to not buy more than one of a series. Whereas, my initial impression still holds, I get a definite aroma of wet clay. Overall, it is simple, but what it does, it does well.