pkingmartin
Laws Four Grain Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Colorado, USA
Reviewed
October 27, 2021 (edited September 16, 2022)
The nose starts with hair spray mixed with black shoe polish followed by slightly browning apple slices, light cereal notes that transition to nutmeg, roasted chestnuts and wet bandages with light ethanol burn.
The taste is a thin mouthfeel starting with that hair spray and wet shoe polish mixture followed by Apple Jacks cereal then a medium spice that fades to burnt chestnuts and used bandages with medium ethanol burn.
The finish is short with bitter melon, rubber tire mulch, clay soil and wet bandages.
This is just bitter with light fruit and cereal on the nose and mid-palate, but the finish is just earthy clay, bitter melon and bandages freshly removed from a pool. Comparing this to the Henry Road Malt and Centennial Wheat, this is the worst of the three and makes some of my whiskey that I rate at a 3 taste like 5-star gems.
I’m not sure how Distiller put this at an 82 or how this would hit any of the important notes. Just to put this into a better perspective, Icelandic whiskey is basically sheep turds, ice, wool with some malt and is quite frankly a world class dram compared to this one.
A big thank you to @ctbeck11 for the sample.
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@J-Hyphen Dang sorry to hear you got burned by this one. I always think of dumping bottles I hate as saving me some liver bullets for something much better later on.
Your comments are spot on. I hate that I dumped a bottle of bourbon but this was some really terrible stuff. I bought it because the display cleared out in a couple days at my spot. First one I dumped. Couldn’t gag it down.
@Benji-Robert Haha, thanks! @PBMichiganWolverine I would be interested too. It’ll be interesting if it unseats roadkill for you.
@pkingmartin I so wish i still had some Abhainn Dearg inaugural. Would love to see if that Penderyn gets unseated by something that smells like roadkill
more love went into your review than the bottle it seems
@PBMichiganWolverine Your question brought about a side by side with Penderyn 12 year Ruby single cask and the Penderyn still reigns supreme as my worst whiskey.
Wow…is this your lowest?
@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington Perhaps I should have a side by side to see who can be worse. @ContemplativeFox I’m not sure how this came out so bad. It’s almost like they put piles of dirt in each barrel to help add minerality to their product but now it tastes like a litter box instead of bourbon.
Ha! You really hate these. I liked this a bit more than you, but they’re certainly not worth a quarter of what they charge for them.
Wow, this has made it into some impressively bad territory. It seems like an achievement to have a straight bourbon be so bad
You’re shooting for Kentucky Gentleman-melted plastic land with these scores 😬