Copper & Kings Floodwall Apple Brandy

Smells like burnt apple cider, or apples that have been baked until charred before being juiced. Golden raisins and licorice follow in the nose. Flavorwise, there's complexity here, but there's a note I don't like. Almost like it's just too charred. Too much burnt oak? Drinks more like medicinal whiskey - with a whisper of apple brandy in the back of your throat if you really look for it. The wood dominates the flavor, with a somewhat bitter unpleasant herbal quality. It's a touch hot, but it's not the heat that bothers me. My problem is with what this is missing: a bright note, or more sweetness or richness. Anything to round out oak and char.

Wow. This is weirder than I was expecting. Pretty color, but the taste was unexpected. Nose: bright apple skin, vanilla, caramel Palate: Cooked apple throughout, but comes on much stronger on wood. First oak..then kind of spicy rye..then smoke. Finish: Apple cider and smoke. Lingering. Verdict: I prefer the Laird's single barrel at this price point and for the fuller apple flavor, but this is a lovely novel little sipper. Might not get again, but is fun this time.

I prefer lairds but I love using Copper & Kings spirits behind the bar. Make a zombie using white rum, 100+ proof dark rum and this stuff (plus all the other usual ingredients of a zombie) and you’ve got one strong concoction.

Sweetened dry fruit nose. Good heat. Sangria notes. A heavy plastic note that I believe comes from the apples.

Very good flavor. Obvious notes of apple. Tasted at TW Copper & Kings Brandy Class.

Super hot to start but mellows to make way to a long lingering of apple juice