Always high proof always good whiskey always Jim Beam profile lol. There are so many good releases of Bookers each and every year. This one the nose has the apple, vanilla and peanut distillery profile. Second wave is caramel cream, cinnamon, sweet and oak and due to proof some ethyl alcohol. If you are not used to high proof whiskeys this one will taste hot but if you are used to it there isn't much alcohol burn on the palate. The salted peanuts really hits first followed by the cooked apple flavors (apple, sweet syrup, cinnamon and touch of nutmeg), then the vanilla, caramel and oak all fall in line. Finish is medium long with almost all the palate carrying over except the salty peanuts the finish is where the alcohol comes back on the throat and the Kentucky hug warmth in the chest and some rye spice on the sides of the mouth are more noticeable. $78 bucks is not bad this whiskey gives you bang for your buck if you like high proof if you don't it still gives good bang as you don't need as much when you proof it down with water. However some are saying that Booker's is price hiking again to $90-100 and that's not worth it as these are not LE's and are pretty readily available and it's not like there's a huge secondary.