Tag: 60% ABV

Rating 8/ 10
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Balcones Peated Sauternes Cask 60%

Nose: Peat is lovely and gentle, tangerine, waking up early in the mountains and a cabin across the valley has their wood fire up as the smoke curls lazily on a warm wind, jasmine, with water I get more cinnamon

Palate: Tangerine, cinnamon honey stick, graham crackers with a hint of tasted marshmallow, bruleed super ripe fig, with water nutmeg, and hints of chocolate

Rating: 8 / 10 – holy crap this is just damn good. Not weird novelty good. But delicious.

Rating 5/ 10
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Last Ward 16 YO 2007 60%

Nose: Sandalwood, plastic, cinnamon buns, pool water, lavender, begonias.

Palate: Anise powerhouse, plastic, lavender, honeydew melon.

Rating: 5 / 10 – reminds me of a very floral st james. Interesting but not my jam.

Rating 8/ 10
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Cambridge 18 YO 2005 ST🖤CE 60%

Nose: Peanut brittle, acetone, elegant pineapple, stargazer lilly, muscovado brown sugar.

Palate: Well balanced woody elegant estery goodness, pineapple, papaya, leather, cedar, anti-freeze, with a dollop of water this opens up beautifully.

Rating: 8 / 10 – ST🖤CE’s mom got it going on

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Hampden Mark 8 OWH #1 60% 40-80 gr/hlpa

Nose: Overripe mango, banana peels, grilled leeks, fresh oysters with mignonette.

Palate: Bubble gum, touch of lead, cotton candy grapes, sucralose

Rating: 5 / 10 – super pleasant but not much depth. Just sweet and fun

Rating 4/ 10
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Hampden Mark 8 LFCH #2 60% 80-120 gr/hlpa

Nose: New car smell, air freshener, new tire, plastic toys, fresh cut grass, soy beans.

Palate: Slightly sweet, slight chemical, peach jolly rancher.

Rating: 4 / 10 – the petroleum notes are starting to show up

Rating 5/ 10
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Hampden Mark 8 LROK #3 60% 200-400 gr/hlpa

Nose: Much more balances, coriander, cumin, kaffir lime leaf, watermelon, dried orange peel, baking soda bread

Palate: Simple syrup, rootbeer barrel, parmesan, diesel from swimming in the SF bay.

Rating: 5 / 10 – I enjoy the baseline

Rating 6/ 10
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Hampden Mark 8 HLCF #4 60% 400-600 gr/hlpa

Nose: Nice tropical notes, super ripe bananas, pineapple which fermented in its own shell, coriander, cumin, kaffir lime

Palate: Fruit explosion, grilled pineapple, wintergreen, pencil wood and lead.

Rating: 6 / 10 – this is that lovely full on palate with a mix of fruit n funk

Rating 6/ 10
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Hampden Mark 8 <>H #5 60% 900-1000 gr/hlpa

Nose: Super pineapple, on all levels, grilled, puree, fermented, anti-freeze

Palate: Super pineapple. Super lychee. Super guava.

Rating: 6 / 10 – I really like the notes that butyrate brings. Bananas n pineapple.

Rating 4/ 10
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Hampden Mark 8 HGML #6 60% 1000-1100 gr/hlpa

Nose: Tahini, cream soda, liquorice root.

Palate: Super intense. Like a baking additive. Licorice, mint.

Rating: 4 / 10 – this feels like an additive, not a drinking dram