Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr., Barrel Proof (batch 14)

Got lucky and picked this up for $80 at the Logan Utah DABS store in a statewide drop of allocated liquor in Dec 2025. Laser etched numbers are hard to read but looks like this (see photos): 1 00:57 12025 13:46 D VT 15C Searching websites on EH Taylor it appears this is Batch 14, 2025, bottled at 63.6 ABV, 127.2 proof. Tasting neat. Bright copper color and average coating legs in the glass. The nose is sweet grain and vanilla, grassy, with a whiff of spice in the far back. On the palate, brown sugar and then a whoosh of ethanol and mint. Ethanol lessens on later sips and sweet tannic vanilla oak takes over, some dark fruit, dark chocolate, and then baking spices and a mint tingle. Full mouthfeel, lightly oily and chewy. The finish is long, carrying on with tannic, spicy, pepper, tingling mint. Dry sweet, not sour. Very pleasant. An ice cube tames the ethanol and oak tannins, leaving a silky sweet/spicy feel. It's got some bite at 127 proof, more so than some other barrel proof whiskies that are sweeter and less astringent. A 4.25, but this is still a "unicorn" out here in the West, so 4.5. It's great to find out how all the other Taylors taste at full proof. I'm happy to drink and enjoy this today and hope I get lucky in Utah's "allocated lottery" next year. Here's how!

63.6% Oily almond, rye kissed oak, and grape chew nose. Balanced and dense. Almond extract, nougat, grain sugar, cashew oak, charred rye, and barrel spice. A bolstered version of the small batch, as you would expect. Welcoming kentucky hug in the finish.

Very nice and tasty. Another BP hitter from EHT!