LeeEvolved
High West A Midwinter Night's Dram Act 6 (All Scenes)
Rye — (bottled in) Utah, USA
Reviewed
May 9, 2019 (edited December 24, 2019)
I’ve come to the conclusion that High West Distillery and the rock band Weezer walk the same cosmic line: fans either love what they were or what they’ve become.
High West was the darling, craft distillery that gave us A Midwinter Night’s Dram Acts 1-3 and Weezer was a nerdy, alt-rock band that gave us Buddy Holly. Later they gave us (conglomerate) Midwinter Night’s Dram Acts 4-6 and Pork ‘n Beans, respectively. What. The. Everloving. Fuuuuuu-dge.
I’ve had the privilege to try 4 ever-evolving batches of AMWND: 2:1, 4:1, 4:4 and now 6:4 (thanks @Scott_E). Needless to say, the quality has seemingly dropped each time. It’s like they took a Christmas spiced, Yankee candle and shredded it into some young, rye whiskey.
The balances and experimentation from early releases, wine cask experimentation to pushing rye levels, has turned into more of a one-trick pony of youthful rye whiskey and tired barrels. Sigh.
I miss the days when whiskey wasn’t so damn popular. Quality is suffering, prices are crazy and I’ve gotten older. Here’s to sticking with older, age statement Scotch whisky.
Hipsters, excuse my French, but I hope you choke on your next Pickleback. Now, GET OFF MY LAWN, PUNKS. I need a shot of penicillin and a boilermaker.
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Pickleback...nice...someone described MWND as having a pickle juice finish and now I can’t untaste that. I bought a bottle of Barrell Dovetail for $40 less and it makes all other cask finished whiskeys taste like amateur hour.
@PBMichiganWolverine @LeeEvolved well stated. For those who did taste Acts 2/3/4 this bottling does not match up to the same quality. As previously stated, I had higher expectations from past experiences.
I wasn’t a fan of this either. But I’m guessing because the Act 2 was one of my all time favorites, and Act 3 was pretty damn good. This doesn’t live up to the previous batches. Far from it
I dunno, I had this and the Act 5 back to back and kinda digged this one. Definitely agree it's a little more youthful but I liked it. The Act 4 I agree was outstanding! I just got my hands on a Sagamore Rye Port Finish (this years SF Rye of the year) and am curious to taste against this. Cheers and great review as always!