ABV: 46 %
Origin: Sweden
Type: Straight Rye
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 2/5
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Additional information
This whisky was aged for at least 3 years in american oak casks. It was made by Agitator distillery.
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ABV: 63.7 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 5/5
Tasting notes (Scribbles)
Nose: A rich and full nose with vanilla, sugar powder coated hard fruit candy, cinnamon and a hint of menthol. There’s a nail polish remover note surrounding the edges.
Mouth: Very spicy and powerful yet fruity, with apples and cherries being easily found. It’s astringent and the oak note comes with a coffee note mixed with some vanilla. A hint of cinnamon shows up in the background.
Finish: Cinnamon, menthol and dry oak. Very astringent. The taste of those hard fruit candies show up in the background and confirms the nose. It really packs a punch and keeps on giving for a long time.
Additional information
This is a straight bourbon aged for 6 years, 3 months and 14 days. It’s a Jim Beam product and the batches is limited and selected by a roundtable panel. It’s named after Kathleen DiBenedetto, who was involved in launching the Beam small batch releases in the 90’s and still works for Beam Suntory as a Senior director.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Blended
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Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 2/5
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This whisky was aged in ex-bourbon barrels, ex-sherry casks and chestnut casks. This is a travel exclusive release.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Rye
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
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Additional information
There is no information about neither mashbill nor aging. It’s at least 51 % rye and aged less than 10 years.
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ABV: 43 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and fruity. At first there’s a vanilla heavy sweetness and apple flavoured hard candies. It’s very mild. When it settles there’s an immidiate oakiness mixed with brown sugar and with sweet liquorice in the background. A hint of cinnamon floats around as well. This is a good nose. It’s very straight forward and pleasant yet it lacks power and complexity.
Mouth: It starts out with a mix of oak spices and some spicyness from the ethanol. It’s less sweet on the palate and the fruit candy is not as pronounced and it feels a bit pointy and unbalanced. The oakiness soon doubles down and overrun most of the flavours which adds to the unbalanced character. The vanilla is still there and a hint of anise replaces the sweet liquorice. It feels a bit more herbal overall.
Finish: The transition is mild and the apple flavoured hard candy returns. It then flips to heavy oak with a lot of oak spices. The distillate feels a bit harsh which isn’t all that great. The oak takes over completely and the finish is basically like chewing on a piece of oak. This is a good bourbon overall but the base flavours doesn’t seem to stand up to the oakiness.
Additional information
Up until 2015 this had an 8 YO age statement and was called ”Double aged”. Now it’s supposedly about 6 years old, but no age is presented on the bottle. The mashbill consists of 77 % corn, 13 % rye and 10 % malted barley.
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ABV: 50 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and vanilla rich. At first there’s a layer of rich vanilla mixed with green apples and cherries. A small note of nail polish remover floats on top. When it settles the honey sweetness becomes more pronounced and and a slightly dusty oakiness arrives. It’s very aromatic. There’s a chalk note in the background as well. This is a great nose with a lot to offer.
Mouth: It starts out very mild with the fruity notes up front. It comes through as assorted hard fruit candies with powdered sugar. There are notes of cinnamon, vanilla and corn in the center and a hint of a herbal, slightly bitter background note which creates a nice contrast to the sweetness. A fresh oak with a hint of pecan nuts and hazelnuts coats the mouth. Anis, liquorice and a general rye note surround the edges.
Finish: A small burst of peppermint leads way but turns over to a mix of the fruit candies and rye spices. The oak is very pronounced and leaves a dusty note in the back as well as a dry sensation over the palate. The character follows along quite a bit down the line which is nice. In the end all that’s left is a dusty oakiness. This is a great Bourbon. It feels balanced and has a nice journey throughout.
Additional information
This small batch straight bourbon is made to replicate bourbon as it was before prohibition. It’s made from a mash bill consisting of 75 % corn, 13 % rye and 12 % barley. It’s aged in heavily charred barrels to create a fuller flavour.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and mellow. It starts out with a vanilla heavy oakiness and a shiny distillate note. When it settles there are notes of rye bread and mild sweet liquorice added as well as a hint of menthol floating around on top. Brown sugar, apples and a hint of banana mix with cinnamon to make a nice center part. This is a good solid nose overall. It’s not complex and very easy to access.
Mouth: It starts out with a very mild vanilla before spicyness from the oak arrives. There’s a menthol layer on top, a hint of dusty corn and a coffee note forming in the center while the sweet flavours are on the outside. It’s a bit spirity and shiny overall. There’s still a rye bread note floating around as well. The oakiness is increasing with time but everything is a bit muted due to the low ABV.
Finish: The fruity notes return and surge through the transition. The oakiness and coffee notes remain as well and make up a big part of the finish. It doesn’t take long before the shiny and spirity notes become metallic and moves back. The late finish revives the liquorice but it’s not as pleasant as on the nose. A hint of brown sugar lives on as well. The oakiness keeps a nice level throughout the late finish. This is a standard Bourbon which gives a decent amount of space to the rye notes. It’s low proof and a bit spirity, but it’s easy to drink.
Additional information
Four roses uses 5 different yeast strains to create 10 different mash bills. The yellow label is their stock expression and is usually made up by a mix of 8-10 of the mash bills. The content’s age varies from 4-12 years old. The char level used is between #3 and #4.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Northern Ireland
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 1/5
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Additional information
This whisky was aged in ex-bourbon barrels for an undisclosed amount of time.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
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Additional information
This whiskey is triple distilled and was aged in ex-Oloroso sherry butts. Sexton is supposedly made by Bushmills.
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ABV: 43 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Finished Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and oaky. At first there’s a vanilla rich oakiness surrounding a sweet and slightly dusty center part. There’s a nail polish remover note within and a minty note floating around on top. When it settles there’s a small liquorice note floating around, as well as tiny bread note. The vanilla rich oakiness really comes through as a nice frame to the whole. This is a nice nose. It’s an easy to access Bourbon with a lot of classic characteristics.
Mouth: It starts out with a very soft mix of cherries, oak and vanilla. The oakiness is really strong and makes everything a bit astringent and dries out the palate. Underneath it feels a bit rough and ethanol heavy, even though it’s very mild. The loquorice note pushes through after a while, but everything just gets overrun by the vanilla oakiness. It becomes slightly bitter in the back and the minty notes still floats around on top.
Finish: The tranisiton is the best part of the journey. There’s a mix of oak spices and black pepper increasing the spicyness and brings the vanilla and cherry notes with it for a short period before the heavy oak returns once again. The dust and a corn note also appears shortly before the oak and the liquorice notes takes over. The late finish is a bit too oaky and feels very unbalanced. It does deliver on its double oak promise. This is a good bourbon which delivers quite well on the set premises. It should work well in cocktails.
Additional information
This version of Jim Beam was released in 2016 and is aged for 4 years, then put into new barrels for some time to create extra wood flavours. The mashbill consists of 75 % corn, 13 % rye and 12 % malted barley.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Blended
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and fruity. At first there’s a bit hit of vanilla and short bread cookies with side notes of grain spirit and fruits. There are bananas, red apples and a squeeze of orange. Sweet liquorice can be found but are not one of the main features. There’s a nice balance between the sweetness and the fruits which makes it very dessert-like and easy to approach. There’s also a creamy feeling overall. This is a very good nose. The grain spirit note brings it down a notch.
Mouth: It starts out with a bready note and a slight spicyness. The fruitiness is fresher and less sweet and brings more citrus notes and apples than bananas, even though they still exist within. There are still notes of vanilla. It’s less sweet than on the nose and a bitter note are starting to create some background noise. It really doesn’t seem to fit in but it does give another dimension to an otherwise quite simple experience. There’s a good portion of maltiness and the grain spirit notes are pushed down in the order, which is a very good thing.
Finish: There’s an increase in the fruitiness at the start of the transition. The malty, bready center also return but it starts to fall apart quite soon. The fruitiness once again become banana forward with citrus notes in the back together with the bitter note. It soon shifts and becomes very oaky. It’s a quite spicy and aggressive new oak which isn’t all that pleasant. After a while it just feels like chewing on raw oak. This is a decent whisky for the premises. The oak infusion helps it along in one end, but makes it hard to endure in the other.
Additional information
This is a blended irish whiskey aged for an undisclosed time in american oak casks.
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ABV: 45 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and oaky. At first there’s a big vanilla and fresh oak sweetness with a side note of sweet dark fruits. There are raisins and candy cane mint sitting together with a caramel note which adds to the sweetness. There’s also a nail polish remover note floating around on top. The port feels really integrated in the experience and the whole comes through as very balanced. It doesn’t create any complexity though. This is a very good nose overall.
Mouth: It starts out with a brown sugar sweetness up front with a cherry and raisin fruitiness in the back. The oakiness, and spices deriving from it, emerges from the back. There are notes of vanilla, corn and caramel as well. It feels quite metallic in the back which brings it down a bit. It feels quite complex and there’s a nice mix inside which gives some coffee notes and some ripe fruit notes.
Finish: The finish starts out with a surge of candy cane mintiness and fresh red berries with cherries at the forefront. The transition is amazing. Vanilla and oak are added and the spicyness comes with it as well. The ripe notes and coffee are still in the back. The longer the finish goes, the more of the oak and the coffee comes through. Dark chocolote is added. The late finish is just the fresh oakiness running out its course. This is a great bourbon with a finishing period which matches the character in a balanced and delicious way.
Additional information
This straight bourbon is s limited release of 6000 bottles and is the third annual special release. It was aged for more than 4 years and then finished for 6 months in ex-Tawny Port Casks.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and malty. At first there’s a spirity note on top with a sweet and malty center underneath. Inside the sweetness there are notes of vanilla, honey and sticky red berries. There’s a thin sawdust oakiness surrounding the edges. When it settles the maltiness becomes bread-like and the spirity note becomes more of a menthol freshness. The red fruitiness really have to fight to keep up with the other flavours and nearly succeeds. There’s a slight hint of hazelnuts and baking spices as well. Time in the glass helps but it feels younger than its age. This is a good nose with a lot to offer, yet it somehow doesn’t feel like a weighted composition.
Mouth: It starts out with the oakiness out on the edges and fresh red fruitiness, honey and oak in the center. It doesn’t take long before it becomes malty and bready. There are some tobacco notes and baking spices floating around. It lacks some power to carry all the flavours. There’s a slight bitterness in the back and as time passes the fruitiness grows darker and more ripe. There’s a hint of tropical fruits emerging from from the back and so does an older oak note. This creates a nice contrast and brings complexity to the whole.
Finish: The transition is mellow and lacks a bit of power. The malty notes return and so do darker fruits. They soon get pushed away by the tropical fruitiness, baking spices and a very nice nutty oakiness. There’s a lemony zest note in the back and this point in the finish is amazing. The late finish really shows off the age with the old oak, hazelnuts and some delicious tropical fruits. This is a great whisky which could have been amazing if it wasn’t watered down. The finish is pure magic.
Additional information
This whisky was first aged in ex-bourbon barrels and ex-Oloroso sherry casks then finished in port pipes. It’s triple distilled.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is fruity and herbal with a hint of peat. At first there’s a mix of grass, herbs and green fruits. The peatiness is found out around the edges and it’s a floral peat with a hint of bonfire smoke. There’s also a vanilla and heather honey sweetness in the center. The whole character is rather unique and slightly weird. The fruitiness is green apples and a squeeze of lemon. This is a great nose, but it comes with a love or hate feel to it. It’s not for everybody.
Mouth: It starts out with a mild sweetness. After a few seconds a lemon and vanilla note starts to to rise in the back. After that, a surge of floral and herbal notes comes in together with peat and apples. There’s a slight dustiness and a thin nail polish remover note as well. The heather honey return with time. It’s just as unique in taste as on the nose. There’s a big flavour profile but it lacks in power.
Finish: The transition is mild and highlights the peat for a short while, which still is herbal, but now has a gritty note added. Afterwards all the other flavours return and it just continues down the same grassy, floral and fruity path as before. It has a quite long finish with the gritty peat note as main focal point in the late finish. The oakiness arrives late and it’s a nice enough addition, but nothing special. This is a good whisky with a big and weird flavour profile but it lacks power to support it. Some will adore it, but many won’t.
Additional information
This whisky was made at the Cooley distillery with peated (20 PPM) barley from Scotland. It’s double distilled and then aged in ex-bourbon barrels.
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ABV: 40.5 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Rye
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and minty. At first there’s a minty cloud sitting on top of sweet vanilla and anise. It’s very mild and easy to approach and never really seems to change. The mint becomes slightly sharper over time in the glass and it becomes more pepperminty. The oak is peeking through out on the edges and there’s a slightly spirity note pushing through in the center. This is a decent nose. It’s not especially interesting nor complex. It lacks a lot in power and body though.
Mouth: It starts out very flat and it’s way too mild. There’s a brown sugar sweetness which soon is joined by the vanilla, mint and anise. There’s a tiny marzipan note in the back but when the tiny spicyness start to arrive it brings the peppermint forward. The oak is still out on the edges and the middle becomes slightly fruity with time. It’s a green apple kind of fruitiness, but it’s not especially specific.
Finish: The transition is very straight forward. A small increase in peppermint is there but otherwise it’s just a continuation of the other flavours. Everything drops quite fast though and the finish is mostly a new sawdust oakiness with a minty overlay. This is a decent whisky. It’s way to flat and boring but it delivers an extremely easy approach and decent flavours.
Additional information
This rye is aged for at least 5 years in barrels with No. 4 ”alligator” char. The mashbill consists of 51 % rye, 37 % corn and 12 % barley.
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ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Blended
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 1/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and spirity. At first there’s a shiny ethanol note sitting on top of a sweet vanilla note. There’s a malty note sitting around the edges of the glass and a bread note develops in the center together with a thin note of baked red apples and some baking spices. It feels pretty harsh and cheap overall though. After a while there’s a lemon note in the back as well. This is a bad nose overall, but there are some decent notes somewhere deep within. But it’s too little to make a difference.
Mouth: It starts out with a bitter note in the back and a very present and unpleasant ethanol layer sitting on top. There’s still a lemon note in the back but here it’s mixed in with a metallic note. In between there’s a generic sweetness and a dry cardboard note. There’s still a bread note and some vanilla within and the apples are detectable, but there’s no incentment to go hunting for them. A weird savory note comes and goes as well.
Finish: The transition starts with a spike of ethanol and oak spicyness and then it gives away some fruity apple and lemon notes. There’s a maltiness pushing through before everything switches to a mix of oak and cardboard with the harsh ethanol notes attached. The oakiness is a bad one and from this point on the experience is really boring and unpleasant. This is a bad whisky. It’s cheap and makes no effort to hide it.
Additional information
This whiskey was triple distilled and filtered through charcoal made from oak. It was aged in ex-bourbon barrels.
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ABV: 55 %
Origin: Laos
Type: Rice Whiskey (Lao-Lao)
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 1/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is harsh and sweet. At first there’s a butterscotch sweetness popping out of the glass with a sharp ethanol note underneath. After a while everything merges together and becomes a slightly funky distillate with an unplacable fruit note within. There’s a metallic note in the back as well. After that, the nose doesn’t change at all. This is a better nose than expected, but it’s still not something which should be nosed or consumed neat.
Mouth: It starts out with a wet cardboard kind of taste with a mild sweetness underneath. With time the whole thing becomes s lot sweeter. There’s a harsh and bitter note in the back and the whole thing tastes a bit chalky and cheap. There’s really nothing to help it along so it’s just ethanol without any interesting side notes.
Finish: It doubles down on everything throughout the transition and it’s just very unpleasant at this point. Luckily everything dies down quite quickly. All that’s left is a chalky note and a dry mouth with what feels like a wood note within the chalk but it’s hard to pinpoint anything of substance. The unpleasantries stay and just won’t go away. This is bad whisky. This is moonshine. It’s not a pleasant drink and it shouldn’t be consumed neat. Or at all.
Additional information
This is a rice whiskey made in the famous Ban Xanghai Whiskey Village in Laos. There are several producers located in this tourist attraction.
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ABV: 43 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is young and spirit driven. At first there’s a mix of a very young, slightly peaty distillate and a thin vanilla and red berry fruitiness. There’s a maltiness as well and it has rather sharp edges of lemon and green apples. The peatiness is coming through as wet and herbal. This is a hard to judge nose. It feels like a well made spirit, but way too young to be a good neat pour.
Mouth: It starts out with a malty and vanilla sweet base with a lemon sharpness in the background and a spirity top note. It feels a bit watery overall and lacks body. The flavours found are nice though. It’s a mixed fruitiness with no perticular accent note. Maybe apples or pears. The peat is milder than on the nose and gives a nice background noise. It still feels really well made but as on the nose, it’s way too young which gives it an off-note which isn’t the greatest. There seem to be potential though.
Finish: A mild chili spicyness spreads out over the palate even to it has low ABV. The oakiness clings to the sides of the mouth and gives the fruitiness room to shine in the center of the palate. There’s not much of flavour transitions and changes. It’s a straight forward array of flavours. It becomes fruitier the further down the line it comes and as the oakiness grows the sort of spel together to create a nice finish. The peat has sort of disappeared throughout the finish. This is not the greatest whisky, but it’s a very good first attempt which feels like a good foundation to build on.
Additional information
This whiskey was aged in a mix of ex-bourbon and ex-Oloroso sherry casks for an undisclosed amount of time. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.
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ABV: 49.2 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Blended
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and grainy. At first there’s a thick, sweet center with vanilla, white bread and a dark syrup. Underneath lies a metallic note and on the outside there’s a fresh fruitiness floating around in a thin layer. When it settles it becomes slightly herbal and perfumey and even sweeter. The fruitiness stays on the outside but increases in intensity. It does a pretty good job of hiding the grain notes with the sweetness from the casks, but it never really covers it up in total. It feels a bit rough and unbalanced. This is a so-and-so nose. It lacks both complexity and finess.
Mouth: It starts out with a grain forward sweetness surrounded by the sweetness from the casks. There’s a butterscotch and bread note in the middle with a big shovel of vanilla mixed in. There’s a note of cardboard somewhere within which makes it slightly unpleasant. The fruitiness is a bit weird and even though it can be found, it seems like it’s easy to forget to search for it. It’s mostly baked red apples with a squeeze of lemon at this point, but the suggestive nature of the mind do taste some pinapple. In the back there’s a nice bitter tang which helps it become slightly more interesting.
Finish: In the transition everything leave room for an aromatic and perfumey oak note before the big ball of sweetness returns with the same profile as before. It’s still a bit rough and grain forward. There’s a nice peppery spicyness building up around the edges and the fruitiness is now in the background together with the bitter note. The cardboard returns before everything start to fade. Once again the aromatic oakiness return and it’s quite nice. The late finish is the best part of the journey. This is a decent whisky, but it’s a bit rough and unpleasant underneath the sweet top notes.
Additional information
This whisky was first aged for 6 years in ex-bourbon barrels (grain and malt separately) and then finished for 15 months in ex-Plantation Stiggins’ fancy pinapple rum casks. 3750 bottles were released.
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ABV: 59.9 %
Origin: Canada
Type: Blended
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5
Tasting notes
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Additional information
This whisky was made to celebrate the master distiller Dr. Don Livermore’s 23 years at JP Wiser’s. It’s made from corn and rye aged in separate casks.
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