Taste: This is Kenwood Liquors Barrel #12-1171. 1.5 oz neat in tasting glen cairn Nose: (3.5) Dusty corn and cream soda on the nose. There is also some spearmint but a bit artificial like those jellied spearmint leaf candies. There is a sweetness about it but not sickingly so. It does smell like this will be a younger offering but is well assembled, offers me the notion that there will be a bit to unpack here. Palate: (3.25) Thicker viscosity and a waxiness. It is the waxy taste that you get from Vernor's Ginger Ale. It was interesting to me but could really be odd for others. This is a sweet whiskey. Really present is creamed corn or what one might also describe as corn pudding corn. Finish: (3.25) quicker, candy-like finish. Halloween candy corn is the dominant trait that you end on with the artificial spearmint leaf in the background. Overall- First, I am not usually a fan nor do I usually dabble in malted whiskey. Often they are too earthy and grainy for my taste. This one wasn't that way. Although it had some vegetable-like notes it did not give me that that "spilled on a dusty silo floor and hastily put back in the bottle" note that usually chases me off. The sweetness was another matter. This is very thick and candy-corn like! Definately is a dessert offering and will be well received by those with a sweet tooth. The strange jelly candy spearmint throws me off and seems kind of out of place. To me this is an odd-ball. You have to open your mind up to what it is, and what it isn't. It is not a traditional whiskey but it is a sweet, thick, young offering that makes interesting use of malt in the mashbill. It very much reminds me of Greg Metze's Old Elk. I don't hate or love it. It is simply different, but that doesn't make it bad. This piqued my interest.