Dry Fly Straight Washington Wheat Whiskey

Nose - Sweet vanilla caramel, hint of "smarties" candy, hint of orange zest. Taste - Sweet vanilla, creamy caramel, light cinnamon spice tingle, hint of malt powder, latte foam sweetness. Finish - Pleasant smooth cinnamon vanilla caramel sweetness that slowly fades. Score - 87/100 Final Thoughts - I was pleasantly surprised by this one. It's sadly a bit one dimensional and I think it might get lost if mixed in a cocktail or over ice but it's amazingly smooth to sip neat. Flavors are a bit subtle but tasty. This might make a good mixer to something with a bit more oak or spice to tame that back a bit and add a bit of creamy caramel sweet.

Color is a deep amber. Nose: A little bit of oak, a little slightly sweet fruit that I can't pinpoint. First sip: Strong oak with a good note of toasted bread. Finish: Savory, almost like the butter for the bread, as well as a good amount of cinnamon. Quick but powerful on the tongue. Not sweet like a Bourbon, but also not dry either. Overall this lacks a little complexity, which makes sense given the relatively young age and 100% wheat Mashbill, but the flavors that are present are more than sufficient to make this a nice change of pace that is still recognizable as American Whiskey with the oak and spice.

Having biked from BC down to Idaho through Spokane and then the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse, I jumped at the chance to buy a local whisky, more or less, with a most unusual mash bill. It languishes near the bottom of my Distiller list of 40-odd bottles thanks to its modest expert rating, but I like it a lot. Then again, I love buttered honey toast, so that’s not surprising. Sure it’s a bit one-dimensional - it’s a single grain American whisky - but what it does, it does well.

I've always had a soft spot for Spokane since visiting as a preteen on a family road trip to Yellowstone and seeing the falls on the Spokane River. Maybe it's just sentimentality, but I liked this whiskey a lot. It needs some time in the glass to open up and let the ethanol dissipate. Once it has, the sweet wheat and caramel on the nose are inticing. The creamy palate displays more sweet wheat and caramel. It's also a little hot. The same notes appear in the medium length finish.

Medium body wheat whiskey, nothing overly complex. Cooked sweet cereal, even floral, flavor profile. Creamy, but light enough that it disappears in a cocktail against other strong flavors, so better sipped. Very good if you appreciate it for what it is (a young wheat whiskey) and isnt, and what Dry Fly is building in the Pacific NW. I like this company's approach and look forward to seeing them age their whiskey over 4 years on a regular basis

Nose: honey (mead), mellow, spice Taste: sweet, bread, licorice I enjoyed the sweetness and light taste of this, but as it opened up, I started getting a licorice taste, which I did not like. Bought it to try a 100% wheat whiskey. I wouldn't buy again, but maybe try another brand or something with other grains in the mashbill.