pkingmartin
Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
Blended — Ireland
Reviewed
August 10, 2021 (edited August 14, 2021)
The nose begins with a freshly open box of new sneakers along with lemon lime soda then comes a baking soda and vinegar model volcano reaction along with fresh bandages and a light ethanol bite.
The taste is a thin mouthfeel starting with Honey Nut Cheerios, some light citrus fruit then drying alcohol, mélange of bitter fruit pith and wood chips with medium ethanol burn finishing short with lemon lime soda, a mélange of bitter fruit pith, wood chips and drying alcohol.
When I was drinking this, all I could think was that there were some mini, pissed off, drunken Irish fighters going full UFC cage match on my taste buds with flying armbars, elbows and headbutts. If you’re budget whiskey shopping for $30 or under, my recommendation is to skip this, save $5 by picking up either a WT 101 or WT 101 Rye and have a much better whiskey experience with a higher proof to help get your drunken fighter on.
This deserves to be rated with the upchuck scale reserved for swill, but since this is a bit violent I’m adding 2 punching and 2 upchuck emojis to create the fighty swill designator for this one.
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A big thanks to @ContemplativeFox for the generous sample provided to review.
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@BDanner Thanks, I’m a big fan of that smell as well!
@pkingmartin I like the reference to "newly opened box of sneakers". I never really thought about it, but I love that smell!
Boy I have seen a lot of variance with this one
@BDanner @ctbeck11 Haha! That’s a good point and probably put me on track to be really harsh to whatever whiskey came next.
@ctbeck11 haha. Yes! I’m sure it was. That’s like one of those car review shows. The guy tests a new ‘Vette followed by a VW Passat. The Passat is solid but boring, made doubly so by the recent trip around the test track in the ‘Vette.
@BDanner Maybe it was the juxtaposition of Redbreast 27 and this one back to back. That’s a hard Irish act to follow.
Huh. I was surprised by this one. Now if I was comparing it to WT101, I might’ve been a little harder on it, but for a sub $30 Irish, I thought it held its own.
Hopefully this is the low point in your Irish whiskey lineup :)