Stillhouse Black Bourbon

Really nice and inexpensive. Don’t let the gimmicky tin fool you. This bourbon is really good. It’s a nice, dark color with hints of honey, caramel and leather. Try this.

Slight bite but overall very pleasing with a few cubes of ice. Notes of coffee and vanilla. For under $30, it’s worth the price and then some. Didn’t notice the bite at all the second or third glass!

Rough going down.

Sipping neat from an old fashioned glass. Didn’t rest it because who has time for that in short span between putting kids to bed and going to sleep myself? On the nose I get the coffee, faint vanilla bean, and a whiff of ethanol. Maybe even some of the candied nuts that pervade the mall come Christmas time. It’s sweet, and peaty, and woody. It’s woodsy and peaty and sort of harsh on the pallet. Maybe a little brown sugar. The finish lasts a good while. No Kentucky Hug, per se, but a nice lingering tingle of wood, peat, and something reminiscent of over ripened pear.

Harsh