Nose: Rich honey dew sweetness, as it opens up you get some buttered corn with the grain alcohol ethyl being notable, just a tinge of a lime note, perhaps some of the barrel tannin creeping in. Front: this is salted butter corn on a Dickel level, it is after all, a 99% corn mash, as we get to the back of the mouth, the lime note kicks in, not sure what MGP is using for barrel wood here, it almost has a walnut aspect. The very salty butter corn stays in play through the finish, vanilla and dark sugars are extremely light but detectable. All of that high salt butter and base tartness of lime make for an interesting if extremely unusual profile. MGP know's what they are doing, no question, but that 1% malt means some chemical reagents are needed to get the fermentation complete(as any Fred Noe student can tell you). Can't help but wonder if some of the odd flavor angles are a product of added chemicals. Hooten & Young are another Service Veterans co startup, in the vein of Star vodka and Leadslingers, however they are at least attempting something respectable by going out and procuring 12 year old MGP juice, I'm just not sure what MGP was thinking aging a pure corn to that length. That aging does make this a pleasantly sipable whiskey in an old fashioned corn lighting style, but not one that will rock your world the way an Old Fitz or BTAC bottle can. A decently executed startup even if perhaps a bit lacking in vision. Cheers!