Nose - dusty corn, peanuts, some caramel, and dusty oak. Taste - The taste is a bit sweeter than the nose, but there's still that beam profile of peanuts, dusty corn, a lot of caramel, and oak. So I don't get this. The 9 year single barrel is really good whisky. The standard small batch is actually pretty good. But every time they bottle something officially with more age, they want to showcase everything beam does wrong. That nutty beam character is nice when it's subtle. Instead the salted peanuts overwhelm the bourbon character, it's oak and nuts. Why? We know for a fact that they have massive amounts of outstanding barrels, these 9 year store picks have been getting rave reviews, but as soon as beam blends together batches, we get absolute crap. I've been working on this one for a few weeks, kept putting off reviewing it due to sometimes think it is too hot, other times thinking I'm off. I wasn't and it is. This is just another poor effort from beam. Whoever is doing their blending should be replaced. That said, this isn't complete a disaster. It's a 1 star whisky, quality components but unless you're obsessed with that beam profile, avoid it. It's over priced to add insult to injury.