Tasting neat. Color is a dark brown copper with average coating legs in the glass. The nose is full of malted grain and chocolate, sweet and even floral. Straight up Whoppers malted milk balls. In the mouth, chocolate malted milk, sweet floral grain, light white sugar. A little smoke and an ethanol hit in the back. Coating oily mouthfeel, rich and sweet. Finish is more dark chocolate, oak barrel smoke, light grassy spice, and mint tingle. Sweet, soft, and long. Westward is making some really great single malt whiskies. This one--finished an additional year in one of their own barrels traded to and used by Oregon brewers making cask-aged stout beers-- takes on the chocolatey characteristics of the stout. Maybe too much. It's delicious and chocolate lovers will find this easy to drink, but it's also one dimensional--nose, mouth, finish, all heavily influenced by the creamy stout finish. Whoppers from end to end! Ice thins the chocolate flavor and lets more malt through. I applaud this experiment in stout cask finishing, but it makes me appreciate Westward's single malt even more for the more complex range of flavors it contains on its own.