Corsair Triple Smoke American Single Malt

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've found my favorite whiskey. An awesome medicinal cherry (Think Luden's cough drops) on the nose with some beautiful smoke flowing around it welcomes you to the Triple Smoke experience. Corsair has become a constant stop for me whenever I visit Nashville, exclusively because of this whiskey. Even those who stray away from smoke should try this whiskey because all that smoke is offset by these beautiful fruity notes that result in an amazingly sweet whiskey with an awesome peaty finish. I tried it with a bit of water tonight and it opened up so much more, providing more of that smoke and fruit and almost a bit of BBQ sauce.

Batch 269, bottle 456/600. Nose is cherry and wood forward, with a smokey rubber note hanging over. Interesting and changed throughout my dram, getting sweeter and tangy towards the end. I got a moment of smoked sweet barbeque at the front of the palate that changed to the burnt rubber and iodine of peated Scotch. Again it changed as a sipped, bringing the sweeter dried fruit notes forward with the smoke become more definitive. The finish stays long and iodine/smoke. Very long at times. This is a great interesting whisky, and worth the buy for the enthusiast.

The beginning is a bit light but transitions into some familiar scotch flavors. I pick up on some moderate peat as well as as some other wood smoke notes. I pick up on some char maybe from the barrel or the pear smoking. There’s some lime and hay in the beginning but there’s some sweeter cherry notes In there. It’s a bit underwhelming, but it’s not a bad whiskey. I enjoyed this one a lot as I don’t find a lot of peated American stuff. Neat has a lot more robust flavors, addition of water or ice highly diluted flavor so I’d recommend drinking neat or chilled

Nose: gun oil, sweet, cherry, berries, a little bit of smoke Palate: sweet, very smokey, banana taffy, a little bit of malt, floral, a little spicy Finish: moderately spicy, smokey (peat and other), gun oil again. This is a very unique whiskey. It is complex and interesting, but not very enjoyable. It is a little like drinking the smells that come to mind when cleaning a gun. I really like the idea behind it and love that whiskey makers are experimenting and getting creative. Unfortunately this one is just not my taste.

It's literally the best parts of every whiskey thrown together. You've got the sweet cherry notes of a bourbon. The spice of a rye. The peaty smoke of a Scotch. A little bit of vanilla cookie of the Irish. I can literally not rave enough about the whiskey. So much so that I decided to make it my first pour on my birthday! Great smoky cherry notes on the nose and an even greater fruity taste that lingers into a smoke-filled finish. God bless Corsair Distillery

Quite unique. The cherry wood gives it a strong sweet and rounded taste. The smoke is present, but far less prominent than I expected given the name. But it's a pleasant smoke, particularly on the finish. This is probably a young whiskey, but the three barrels round it out so nicely that it has an older demeanor. I tried this on two consecutive nights, and liked it better on night 2. I think it's unique enough that i needed a second glance.