Smell is nutty (cashews, pecans, peanuts), caramel corn, slight maple syrup, corn, faint wood sap. Fair amount of spearmint as well. Taste is surprisingly soft considering the ABV, mildly flavoured, but with a slight sour-bitter wood, maple syrup, caramel, corn character. Aftertaste is quite corn-heavy. Like George Dickel, EW BiB is one of those whiskeys that insists on reminding me that many American whiskeys are really just alcoholic corn water. And yet, ultimately, it's not bad--much softer than the ABV and age would suggest, much better-rounded than the price would. I don't really want to drink this neat, but on ice it can hold its own, and in classic cocktails (the old fashioned, for example) it really shines as a bottom-shelf option.