Clearly I'm missing something, or a few taste buds, because this stuff is massively praised as a great value whiskey, and I just don't get it. I've had boring whiskeys, but this is straight up unpleasant to me. I get a huge note of banana flavoring syrup - like the stuff they have at coffee shops - it tastes like someone poured a heap of that in my whiskey. The most sickeningly sweet whiskey I've tasted that wasn't actually flavored after the barrel, ie Fireball or Southern Comfort. This gets an actual "yuck" from me. Again, maybe I'm crazy.