Dusty old bottle, tired of buying up bourbon to get my local liquor store to pity me with a bottle of BTAC... such a lost cause. So - let’s try something different and if it sucks then blend it somehow into my own Frankenstein-Dovetail-ish bottle. Color: old copper penny Body: medium legs, light but viscous, oh so smooth, zero burn or heat Nose: molasses, dusty oak, wet leaves, cola, ethanol, pipe tobacco, faint ginger Palate: sweet maple syrup, oak, ginger beer, maybe a dash of spearmint, bit of cigar wrapper but predominantly sweet Finish: sweet molasses, less so oak and tobacco but they’re there This could be Kentucky’s day job - flat Ale-8-one, barn funk and tobacco. Sweet as all get out, far sweeter than any bourbon or sherried scotch I’ve ever tried but hey, it’s made from molasses and cane sugar. There are, however, bits of bourbon DNA pulled from the oak. I’m sipping this early on election night and wondering when else I would reach for this. For now it’s a placeholder for the Stagg Jr I’ll be chugging by midnight. Maybe a beach vacation? Maybe as a mixer - but it honestly holds its own and doesn’t need much. Could do amazing things to a high-rye Kentucky mule with crisp, cold ginger ale and ice. This begins my foray into rum, and possibly cocaine... but to keep it PC let’s say not. Night is young though and anything could happen - like a meteor. Which would be a shame because my bottles would evaporate, and I’d rather drink them.