A friend of mine recently gave me this 1st release bottle of Floki which is an Icelandic single malt, produced from 100% Icelandic barley and bottled at 47% from a single barrel. The nose has a youthful astringency that starts with a mixture of wet sheep wool and the rug section in Home Depot followed by a prepper’s stash of bunkered 7-year-old Golden raisins in old musty cardboard boxes and white peaches that transitions to animal soiled barnyard hay with medium ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting very sour with nail polish remover along with a mixture of wet sheep’s wool and new carpet followed by a rotting cardboard box holding fruits of apricots and white peaches that transition to a medium spice before fading to ginger, clay and animal soiled barnyard hay with medium ethanol burn. The finish is medium length with dark chocolate covered espresso beans, white peaches, apricots, hay and lanolin. So, this is a strange one that brings in a nose of farm yard funk with linoleum, stale citrus fruits and musty cardboard that carries onto the palate with a medium spice before the best part of the finish that is like drinking a cup of mocha and eating stone fruit while petting a freshly sheared sheep. I’m usually a fan of some weird funky flavors, but the balance on this is off and goes towards an all-out farm forward funk instead of an interesting background note. All of these flavors might be more balanced out now because this was the 1st release that was very young and they have recently released some 3-year-old to the US, but I think I’ll be waiting for some reviews on those before jumping back into this full-on farmyard funky liquid.