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JP Wiser’s Rye Blended Canadian Whisky

This does not taste like a rye. This tastes like a big, bold bourbon. The bar where I tried it was trying to pour it off because, well, it doesn’t taste like a rye and rye drinkers didn’t like it. I, on the other hand, really enjoyed it.

JP Wiser’s Spiced Canadian Whisky, Vanilla

Cloyingly, eye-wateringly sweet but not too bad with a shot of soda water and some ice. I understand it’s quite good in eggnog, too.

Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey

This one has some odd… peanut butter? sort of aftertaste but it somehow works. I’m not sure I’d go buy a bottle of my own but I probably wouldn’t turn it down, either.

Balcones Brimstone Corn Whisky

Suuuuuuper smokey, as one would expect with a name like “Brimstone.” Like what that one person at the campfire or bonfire who is sensitive to smoke always gets a face full of. Or like the strong, billowing smoke from a house fire. Personal point of reference: the Victorians across the way from me burnt down two years ago and it smelled just likethis tastes. Someone walking by and maintaining a reasonable personal space bubble could smell it. Teasing out the whisky underneath the smoke, it’s nice, like everything else Balcones puts out but I prefer my smokey adult beverages to be limited to the “perfectly carbonized marshmallow” sort if they’re not mezcal which, paradoxically, I love.