Good day fine folks. Hope that your week is progressing nicely and that this message finds you in good spirit and health. The draft kicks off tomorrow right here in the home of the 2022 Super Bowl Champions. What better way to kick off the festivities than with some juice straight out of Heaven.....cause that’s exactly where I’ll be if the squad does at least as good as last season. Today we try Heavens Door rye. On the nose this one doesn’t give many clues on what to expect from the sip. I catch a few notes that are reminiscent of the apple juice that comes in the glass jar with the white top, and alcohol. Other than that she goes full on Marshawn Lynch.....Any spices in there?, “Apple juice.” Any char, any fruit?, “Apple juice.” Any hint of vanilla?, “You know why I’m here....apple juice.” And that’s about it for the nose. I seriously had to go sniff a bottle of Howler Head to make sure my schnoz wasn’t broken. Unlike the AE rye, the Seagrass, or even the bandaid bandit, that I got hate mail for, this one just doesn’t bring the aroma. While the nose pretends as though the big game isn’t important, the sip goes full on Beast Mode. It starts out on the 1-yard line with a bit of an ash or charcoal taste that I’m assuming is from the rye. A quick stiff-arm and the taste of peanut butter dipped apples rushes into the secondary for a first down. Will the result change on the second or third play? Nope. There it is again. Stiff-arm, head down and more peanut butter apples that truck over your taste buds with an excellent block from Mr Rye, first and goal. Whatcha gonna do now HD? Bring on the spice? Bring in some sweetness? Burn em with a flea flicker like Carroll in 49? Nope....Same play, same result.....well at least for the Heavens Door rye, not the Seahawks. Absolutely nothing changed for me in either aroma or taste, despite letting it sit in the G-glass for 30 minutes, or drinking half the bottle. Just that same clean charcoal to PB&A boringness that at 92p gives no burn and makes this one a decent sipper and probably a better mixer. If your looking for no burn, modest sweetness in the form of thinned out apple juice, peanut butter, a bit of char, and IMO no real character, this one is for you. I got this one in a trilogy pack alongside their Double Barrel and Straight Bourbon offerings for $60. Making my little bottle of rye $20. Would I spend a Jackson on this in the future....no....not when I can grab a fifth of OF rye or EC rye for the same or not much more. IMO Carroll should have stuck to the script against the Goat. The folks over at HD should have drawn in an extra play or at least some additional character to get my bucks (no pun). 🥃 Happy Humpday. ✌🏾Go Dawgs.