Open 2 months Nose - Grain, corn dust, caramel, butterscotch candy, funnel cake, light ethanol. Palate - Thin and watery, cornbread, caramel, brown sugar, light cinnamon. Medium-short finish with dry, tannic oak making an appearance. Lingering notes of caramel and corn dust. It's so thin I can swirl it in my mouth like an 80 proof bourbon with little flavor outside of sugary notes. This is the most disappointing whiskey I've had to date. There was an allocation drop in my county at the beginning of December and I managed to snag the last bottle in the most rural ABC right after work. I waited until Christmas to open this with my brother. To our surprise this was one of the worst whiskeys we had during the holidays. Out of the 10 random bourbon, rye, Irish, and Scotch whiskeys we brought home, this placed 8th for me and 10th for my brother of whiskeys we enjoyed the most unblinded. (Jack Daniel's 2020 Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye was #1 for both of us.) It is not a bad bourbon, but in no universe does it deserve the hype and scarcity it receives. For a $40 BiB, it is far too thin, watery, and sugary compared to a lot of other bourbons you can get at this price point. I would buy Wild Turkey, Knob Creek, Maker's, Four Roses, Elijah Craig, and Old Forester any day of the week over this. You should not waste your time searching for this bottle, and you definitely shouldn't pay ridiculous markups for it. Hopefully one day I'll get to try the barrel proof version at a reasonable price, but I'm not holding my breath.