The nose is off. It just has an unpleasant "wrongness" to it. It smells like a high school gym locker owned by the kid who never takes a shower. The taste is hands down the worst thing I have ever drank. An order of magnitude worse than Sheep Dog. I could at least see someone enjoying that. Seeing that this is a distilled beer mash, it has a unique flavor that just tastes horrible. It has a nice oaky start but ends with a foul stale coffee flavor that lingers for an eternity. I wouldn't even give this to someone I don't want to come back, because I would hate the implication of my lack standards. End opinion, save yourself the distress of drinking something that tastes like it was distilled in the casket of the guy pictured on the bottle.