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Little Book Chapter 4: Lessons Honored
Blended American Whiskey — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
October 27, 2020 (edited December 1, 2020)
Neat. Neck pour. I missed out on Ch 1 and 3. Really liked Ch 2 as a oddly refreshing rye. Intrigued by the concept of brown rice whiskey here.
There is a lot going on with this nose. Getting the Beam peanut shells/peanut brittle. Bubble gum. Bubble gum is wrong... Sea salt taffy, strawberry sea salt taffy. Wow, leaning so bright. Vanilla. Lemon. Okay now it is dark and got this nice milk chocolate. This is a crazy nose. Okay it changed again. Now it is savory like the sauce in an orange chicken from a Thai restaurant. I’m a bit at a loss. Back to the peanut. I can’t keep up.
Very nice, viscous mouth feel and it is packed with flavors. This is so complex it is perplexing me. I am getting milk duds up front. Transitions into a killer butterscotch which flows into peanut brittle. Getting orange and vanilla on the finish. Peanut brittle is hanging strong. Really hanging strong. Still hanging strong and even getting this nice rye now in the back of the throat. Now I am getting a distinct oat/rice on the finish. It won’t stop changing.
I’m not sure I did that justice at all. This is one of the craziest whiskeys I have had. It’s delicious, it’s surprising, it’s unrelenting. It’s undoubtably Beam but then not Beam at all. Such a great finish. I am impressed by this one.
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