Tuesday, Day 20. Tonight... McCarthy's 6 Year Oregon Single Malt Whiskey, Distilled and Bottled by Clear Creek Distillery, Widmer Wash. This uses peated malt from Scotland... so it's more or less a peaty Scotch that is distilled in Oregon. I liked the Cask Strength Single Barrel McCarthy's on Day 8 - let's see what I think of this one.
On the nose, this one has the peat, sweet bbq meat, a touch of medicinal and some brine. It's a really nice nose, well balanced... and just want to keep smelling it. The taste I get the peat, a spicy pepper, and the sweet bbq meat. It's not quite as good as the nose, but still pretty good. The finish, I get spicy heat tingle initially, earthy, and the sweet bbq again. The earthy dirt like finish lingers - if it was more 'dirt' I might not like it, but here it's quite nice.
With water, I got more alcohol initially on the nose, but that faded pretty quickly - and then it was more or less the same as before. The taste - I get some citrus and it doesn't seem as hot spicy as before. The finish is less spicy too, but also a couple notches flatter - better without water. I poured a bit of the McCarthy's Cask Strength to compare it to. The nose on this is better, the taste on the Cask Strength is probably more interesting. I paid $90 for this, while the Cask Strength is $60 - so since I think they are similar, I know what I'll be buying another bottle of (: Rated 4.25/5.0 - good stuff!
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