Review - Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey
"Highly overrated and overpriced"
Photo Credit: Josh
Rating 2 Glasses
- Distillery: Stranahan's Colorado Distillery
- Years Aged: 2
- Proof: 94
- Price (USD): $ 59.95
- Availability: Widespread
Tasting Notes:
- Color & Consistency: Yellow honey, watery
- Nose: Sweet & lackluster
- Taste: Corn, alcohol, sweet
- Finish: Oaky, sweet & uninspired
- Conclusion: Highly overrated and overpriced. Too sweet without the other characteristics to balance it.
Review - Boatwright Bourbon
"The whiskey created by Alaskans for Alaskans who have so much hair on their chest it puts Sasquatch to shame"
Photo Credit: Web
Rating 2.5 Glasses
- Distillery: Port Chilkoot Distillery (Haines, AK)
- Years Aged: 2
- Proof: 90
- Price (USD): $ 46.00
- Availability: Rare
Tasting Notes:
- Color & Consistency: Deep dark honey, young and sugary with feisty thin legs
- Nose: Spicy, freshly cut and lacquered oak
- Taste: Sweet cream corn topped with sugar and lit on fire. This is where "The Don" commented that "It tastes like I'm gnawing on a door jamb".
- Finish: Oak, sawmill, sugar.
- Conclusion: Some comments - "So much wood I feel like a pre-pubescent teen who just stumbled upon his dad's old shoe box in the back of the closet." & "The whiskey created by Alaskans for Alaskans who have so much hair on their chest it puts Sasquatch to shame".
Review - Hibiki Suntory Japanese Harmony
"Good but for the money hold off for Hibiki 12"
Photo Credit: Matt
Rating 3 Glasses
- Distillery: Suntory
- Years Aged: 10
- Proof: 86
- Price (USD): $ 64.99
- Availability: Widespread
Tasting Notes:
- Color & Consistency: Pale honey, thin with long legs
- Nose: Medicinal, floral, vanilla, hint of caramel and honey
- Taste: Delicious. Alcohol is right up in front and gets oaky and sweet
- Finish: Oaky and floral with a touch of smoke
- Conclusion: Not our favorite dram. Good but for the money hold off for Hibiki 12.
Review - Canadian Club Classic 12 Year Old
"Looks good but a little shallow on the inside."
Photo Credit: Web
Rating 2.5 Glasses
- Distillery: Hiram Walker & Sons
- Years Aged: 12
- Proof: 80
- Price (USD): $ 21.95
- Availability: Widespread
Tasting Notes:
- Color & Consistency: Honey, thin
- Nose: Light
- Taste: Smooth
- Finish: Clean
- Conclusion: Looks good but a little shallow on the inside. Slightly disappointing for a whisky that carries a 12 year age statement.
Review - Jura Origin 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
"...a definite buy again"
Photo Credit: WS
Rating 4 Glasses
- Distillery: Whyte and Mackay
- Years Aged: 10
- Proof: 80
- Price (USD): $ 47.00
- Availability: Widespread
Tasting Notes:
- Color & Consistency: Light Amber, thick
- Nose: Floral, Chocolate, slight burn
- Taste: Sweet, caramel, chocolate, almonds, syrup
- Finish: Clean, long but not oily, ginger notes
- Conclusion: Better than most other Scotch for the price and a definite buy again.
