20 dollar budget....for a rye almost ultra budget. I don't want to write poetry about this. Nose - It's old forester with a bit of mint, a touch of herbal/floral spice, it's honestly old forester with rye and what makes it interesting is as I understand it they used a healthy amount of barely and a lot less corn than you'd expect. Still I get a rye that remind me of old forester with well some nice rye character. Taste - i get more old forester with rye spices but the more I dig in the more I kinda get a the woodford malt notes which is a whisky I really enjoy for 30 bucks. They've really packed in a lot of flavor a lot of complexity....actually 50+ dollar whisky complexity into a really well priced whisky. Now don't get too excited, you get some spirit, you get some youth, and you get some off notes, but this is a 100 proof 20 dollar bottle. I generally find whisky at this price in the 1.0 area, very drinkable, nothing I hate, but absolutely nothing special. This is actually really enjoyable. I'm going with a 1.5 for now and I might review later as there's a part of me wanting to go 2.0, but that's where I scored Glenoyne 15 year and I don't feel that was a bad score. This isn't a 15 year old single malt, but it's way closer than any 20 dollar, clearly young, spirit should be and on that note, I'm loving what brown foreman is doing. They hit a home run on this for the price. I can't speak more highly about the value that you're getting here.