Day 21 ... here we go. Tonight's bottle is proofy for sure, the nose is hot. After getting acclimated a bit, I do get spice, brown sugar, mint and maybe some orange. The taste is very proofy - I honestly couldn't get past the proof on my sips to come up with anything else. Going back to the nose after a few sips I think I get a touch of dill too - so I'm guessing this is a rye and it has to be 60% ABV or more.
The finish I get some brown sugar in the front, drifting to pepper and then a numbness - likely from the proof. I did a few rounds of adding water to where I could get some notes on the taste, likely proofing it down to 50% or so. The nose got more floral and brown sugar, and more minty as well. The taste finally got to where I got some nice rye spice, which carried over to the finish as well. On a different night, this might hit me better, and it's good overall, but tonight I'll rate it a 3.5/5.0. The bottle tonight...
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye, bottled 2024-02-23, distilled in Lynchburg, TN, No age statement, but most estimated put it about 8 years. This one came in at 66.05% ABV - Yes, 132.1 proof. I have had other bottles of this in the past, and enjoyed them more than this one tonight - so I'll have to give this another try another night and see what I think.
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