St. George Single Malt Lot 18

Smooth but not sweet

Really? The distillers sampled this and thought “yep it’s ready”? The aroma is malty with honey. Not bad at all. Then the sip is completely out of the blue with a slightly sour bitter beer flavor. Yeah, beer. And a finish of beer. Yes beer. I don’t dislike beer, it’s just that I usually drink beer for the beer flavor and whisky for, well not beer flavor. I’ll return to this ‘single malt’ later and see if I can get behind what St George is up to. BEER?! Weird man, weird.

vanilla and butterscotch on the nose; oak, smoke, leather in the mouth--no peat, and not sweet; dry dry cocoa finish. aftertaste left my tongue tingling, like the nettles in St George absinthe--unusual feeling. interesting Irish style whisky. we'll see how the narrow flavor range grows on me. very different from no.17, my only other St George whisky reference (and a better whisky).

Just picked up my 2018 bottle. Initial impressions are this is my least favorite that I’ve had (14-18, 30th, 35th), but I’m hoping it just needs more time to breathe.