Nose: Lovely sweetness on the nose, juicy fruit, pot de creme, nutmeg and cloves.
Palate: Rye bread with sweet butter, juicy fruit, green tea, red vines
Rating: 8 (Ryan) 7 (Shane) / 10 – absolutely delicious
Nose: Guava & lemon grass, coriander, lime leaf, hint of cured meats – maybe cecina.
Palate: Sweet pillows, catnip, sage, hints of chocolate
Rating: 6 / 10 – nice but more minty than I usually like
Nose: Red plums, grapefruit peel
Palate: Juicy and minty and chocolatey
Rating: 6 / 10 – fine these notes are loosing steam but its a lot of new riff in one night.. and they are all tasty.
Nose: Dates
Palate: Dark chocolate, cherry cola, leather, super subtle bbq notes, menthol, phenols
Rating: 8 / 10 – this is such an exceptional brimstone. I usually struggle with this spirit, but this cask is just amazeballs.
Nose: Packing tape. Really don’t like this nose but going to tuck in. I used to avoid brimstone like the plague when I started into balcones, but after years of inlay whisky, I’m going to give it another try.
Palate: Licking envelopes, strong wood, slightly bitter and tannic, very little smoke here as compared to the OG version
Rating: 3 (Shane) 4 (Ryan) / 10 – and nope. Still don’t like it. So far away from the 10th anniversary or the sherry cask one that Chip gave Ryan.
Nose: Buttercream frosting, stone fruit, camphor, betadine, clove / clove cigarettes, menthol.
Palate: Ashtray, kissing a smoker who chewed some wrigleys to cover it up, hardcore on the clove
Rating: 3 / 10 – missing the bbq vibe I was wishing for. Reminds me of a coal ila. Did not hold up to Ryan’s memory.
Nose: Pina colada, peaches, apricots
Palate: Crazy fruity and floral
Rating: 7 / 10 – this is so overwhelming and fascinating and weird. This lightly peated single malt was found hiding away after 5 years in a cask that held peated malt on two occasions before holding golden promise Single Malt for a bit over a year. Playing with light heather and sweet peach, we doubled down and clobbered it with an additional 2 months in a Peach Brandy Cask.
Nose: Baking soda, mild pickling juice, old lady perfume.
Palate: Light oats, sour milk.
Rating: 3 / 10
Nose: Kumquat marmalade, unfiltered sake in a cedar box.
Palate: In french sulfur is “soufre“ which if you ask me is probably an early conjugation / bastardization of “souffrir”, or to suffer. If you can ride out the front of the palate, the finish is quite lovely, turns fruity and jammy.
Rating: 2 (Shane) 3 (Ryan) / 10 – Ryan doesn’t even mind toejam, and yet look at this score. Unfortunately, it is what it is.
Nose: A cinnamon diesel explosion. Nutmeg. Cedar planks in the oven. Turned pineapple and mango gone the way of fermentation. Pencil shavings.
Palate: Rubber. Yellow peaches and canned lychee juice. I remember the first time they made me a retainer. A bubblegum flavored goop was put into a mold and pushed into my mouth. Don’t move or we will have to do this again, she said after the second failed attempt. I can still taste it 31 years later. The diesel note really pops in the finish.
Rating: 6 / 10 – Definitely going to appeal to the rum crowd.
Nose: I’ve started seeing a new physical therapist, who on my last visit pulled out a long velvet pillow full of wheat chaff and lavender. Turned out to be the most luxurious heating pad I’ve ever seen. And dang it smells lovely. The nose is so floral, but not the just typical cloying high notes, It is accompanied by a profound baseline. Guess that means we are in patchouli land. Cider vinegar; aromatic blue cheese, al la Roquefort. As it sits, a slightly bitter celery note. This nose is pretty great.
Palate: Well damn, It’s a bit of a jekyll and hyde outcome. A strong and pervasive bitter note dominates. Celery, dandelion green, green bell pepper, crab apple. And yet underneath is an extremely velvety mouthfeel with a gentle softness. Like an oak flavored yogurt with aspirin sprinkled on it.
Rating: 3 / 10 – Hard nope. This is just not balanced. Cool nose, but crash n burn palate.
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