I've been waiting for a long time to start tasting and sharing my thoughts. Tonight, I tasted my two hearted ale with dinner. It tasted just as I remember. I did not taste dinner however, nor could I smell my sons crappy diaper. So take my tasting notes with a grain of salt. They are probably the equivalent of someone who's gassed up right before a surgery, but it's what I'm smelling and tasting, so this should be fun. For those wondering, I lost my taste thanks to covid in Jan 2020. Tonight was the first hint of tasting anything spirit wise. This will likely evolve over time as my taste and smell return to what will be the new norm. Tonight, I'm sipping some plain ol' Buffalo Trace while I clean the basement and watch Warm Bodies. Not a pick, nothing special other than it might be the bottle I got directly from the distillery. So without further ado: Nose: Fruit of some sort and a sweet smell up front. Makes me think of a whatchamacallit candy bar. Finish of the nose ends in dirt. Not really bad dirt, but more of a pleasant dirt you might smell when planting in the spring before you dump the manure on. Taste: Slight burn. Almost like cinnamon red hots, but not painful, more the taste. Nuts. Walnuts specifically. And that's about it. Finish: More nuts, but sweeter for a tiny amount of time. Does not last for more than a second or 2, then it's gone. That wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be, however, there's something more than air as it's been for almost 2 years. Hopefully it continues to come back and I can share some of these weird tastes as it evolves back to what it once was.