Rating: 4/23 N: Oil and alcohol. There's some pepper too, but really it's pretty much just oil and alcohol. The oil has a slightly vegetal, herbal note and the vibe is a bit savory (it really doesn't smell sweet), but there is very little happening here. From the nose, I really can't tell that this is scotch or even whiskey. I'd probably have guessed vodka or maybe some weird Canadian whiskey. P: Yeah, it's oily with lots of alcohol and it's super harsh. There's a peppery spice, but it's mostly just harsh. It doesn't have any of that cheap scotch sulfur, so that's a relief, but it frankly tastes awful and it's physically painful to consume. With this harshness and oiliness, I'd have actually guessed that it was 46%, but nope - 40%! There are slight allusions to some vegetal and herbal character, but they're really more like rubber. Frankly, this tastes more like bad vodka than whiskey. I'm almost interested in looking into this to make sure that it isn't some counterfeit scotch. Clan MacGregor and Piper's Clan may taste terrible, but they at least taste terrible in a way that I expect bad scotch to taste terrible. F: The finish is oily with some alcohol and residual burn. I didn't expect anything else. What did you expect? This is awful. I think I like it a little bit better than Piper's clan because I can conceivably drown its faults in mixers, but I find this actively painful to drink - both metaphorically and literally. I'm thinking a 3-6 here and I think I'm going to come down on the side of 4. If Grant's is like a 7-8, this is at least 2 points worse and really I think it's at least 3 - ergo, a 4. I can imagine a 3 though. It's awful. At $10 I can see some sort of use for this. Maybe. Not really - Evan Williams Black and plenty of better vodkas and bad (but not this bad) gins can be found for around $10. At least it's dirt cheap. Please though, avoid Glen Logie. If you must buy bottom shelf scotch, pay the extra buck fifty to upgrade to Grant's Triple Wood instead.