Black Button Straight Bourbon Whiskey Bespoke Blend (Breaking Bourbon)

This bottle was a gift from my son via the Craft Whisky Club. This is the 3rd bottle I've received since the gift membership and all of them have been really good and very interesting picks. This one definitely continues down that path. Black Buttons is a new distillery for me, but one I'll eagerly keep an eye open for. In this whiskey they've blended four unique whiskey's (I'm assuming they distilled them, but I have limited info) consisting of 21.5% spice, 17.5% base, 35% oak, and 26% sweet distillates. I understand this is aged in rather small 30 gallon barrels and the mash bill is 60% Corn, 20% Wheat, 11% Malted Barley, and 9% Rye This is a spicy whisky with a prominent peppery notes that I like a lot. There's elements of dill, cedar, oak tannins, caramel, and vanilla on the nose. There's no lack for spice, with black pepper, ginger, an element of hard butterscotch candy and a trace of cumin seeds. On the palate this is both sweet and spicy. There's a hint of boiled peanuts, some corrugated cardboard, caramelized sugar, pepper, slight ginger, a wisp of butterscotch and rye spice. There are notes in here that are echoes of flavors I've picked up in both Joseph Magnus blend and in Lot 40. Interesting. I like this, but it might be a bit off center for some. This is definitely an interesting whiskey and one that will have me looking for other creative expressions from this grain-to-glass small distillery.

Yikes. Absolutely no body to this- like drinking distilled water. Palate was very floral but more in the realm of an old air freshener than anything I'd like to drink. I'll let this one sit a while before trying again, but really disappointed in this pick.