Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon

N: High rye mash bill, but I still get plenty of corn on the nose - fresh cut off the cob, still juicy. Baking spice, citrus cleaning supplies, oak. Toffee, caramel, vanilla. Maybe some green rye grain. Sometimes gives off a dusty, stale cereal note. Ethanol is there, but feels reasonably restrained. P: Malt sweet with caramel and vanilla first, then the rye starts to show with mint and dried rye bread following. Some baking spice. Doesn't really go very deep though. Finish has a lot of wood - oak flavor, bitter tannin, and baking spice/cinnamon heat. The malt character lingers leaving plenty of sweet to balance the wood, and also vanilla hedged with maybe the faintest chocolate note. Don't feel like I have much to say about this one. It's somewhere between meh and okay. It doesn't particularly offend, but doesn't wow anywhere either. A bit over priced in the $25 range - there are plenty of better options there and below. Pass on this in the future for me.

Boozy nose, some wood and vanilla, maybe floral. Strong vanilla flavor, a little orange and baking spice.

Weird aftertaste