You definitely pick up the malted barley in the mashbill in both the nose and the taste. It has a fresh grassy flavor in a good way along with a lot of the standard Bourbon notes. It is doing something different though in a mashbill I've never seen before with 20% malted barley being the second grain. I like when there's a Bourbon that does something different because so many of them offer very similar notes on the palate and this one did not disappoint. Cheers!