How to Taste Barn Notes in Whisky
Learn how to pick up notes of burlap, barn boards, and straw in your whisky and where those flavors come from in the first place.
Learn how to pick up notes of burlap, barn boards, and straw in your whisky and where those flavors come from in the first place.
Both spicy and sweet, root beer notes can be found in a range of whisky styles, most notably bourbon and rye.
From leather bound tomes to antique pages, learn how to pick up on notes otherwise found in your local library or book store.
Sometimes, seaside flavors can appear within your whisky glass, offering up notes of rock pools, vanilla ice cream, beach barbecue, smoked shellfish, and more.
Nuttiness presents itself in both new-make spirit and mature whiskies, and you can even call specific nuts out by name when tasting whisky.
Coffee flavors and whisky are oft interwoven in delightful ways, in things like Irish Coffee, whisky-flavored coffee beans, and coffee-flavored whiskey.
Whiskies of all sorts can run the gamut of berry flavors, from tart red berries to tangy blueberries and juicy blackberries.
From macaroons to Almond joy, there’s an array of coconut notes to discover in bourbon, scotch, and beyond.
Notes of fresh-baked baguette or iced sticky buns come from specific compounds in grain and oak.
All whisky is aged in wood, but the final flavor result can vary dramatically.
From Irish to Tennessee whiskey, some drams produce a distinct banana flavor. Here’s why.
From sour to sweet, learn to pick up a range of lemon flavors in single malt whisky.