Quarter Horse Kentucky Bourbon

Quarter Horse is made using a technology called TerrePure which the distillers claim can recreate years of aging in a matter of hours using ultrasonic waves. No I am not making it up. That's how the technology is described. This Bourbon has been aged for a year and, as far as I can tell, then put on the TerrePure machine to give it additional flavor. Sounds like a cool technology and interesting gimmick but in practice, if the Quarter Horse is anything to go by, this will hardly be the future of bourbon making. Right off the bat it has one of the least inviting smells from a bourbon I have ever experienced. It smells of corn, rye, hay, sandalwood chips and a strange burst of ethanol. The sandalwood chip smell isn't pleasant though. More like a dusty accident than an intended odor. As for the ethanol, it reminds me of the various alcohols I got to experiment with in Organic Chemistry. Not quite the ethanol humans consume. Taste wise this is just really bizarre. It tastes like some other liquid that isn't bourbon doing it's best impression and falling quite short. Best comparison I have is how Stevia kind of replaces the taste of sugar. You can still tell it's not "real" sugar though. Or as if you left a glass of bourbon out on a hot day then came back to it and it tastes flat and lost most of its flavor. This isn't pleasant. There is some flavor of apple tart along with the sweet corn flavor of bourbon so it isn't all completely bad but these positives don't last for very long. They're extremely ephemeral quickly giving way to one of the worst finished I have ever experienced in my life. Medicinal, perversely bitter, acrid coupled unpleasantly with that fake ethanol taste I caught on the nose which overwhelms the finish quite unceremoniously--it tastes synthetic in the worst sense of the word. Worst of all the finish stays around for much, much longer than the actual flavor. I timed it and it stuck with me for 2 minutes. That's a real shame because I really wanted to like this product. I'm open to new technologies when it comes to production methods and it's a cool bottle. I'm not going to lie, I'm half tempted to buy the bottle both because it looks cool and it makes for an interesting conversation piece and point of comparison. But as something to drink, this is borderline undrinkable. I'm not even sure it can be used as a mixer, though maybe with some Coke the worst of the finish can be dealt with. I could finish my glass so it's not getting a rating below 1 which I reserve for stuff I can't finish and outright makes me want to gag. But this is pretty damn close.

For starting off with a sickeningly sweet, almost brandy-like scent, this bourbon drinks quite well and smooth, once you taste past the sweetness. The initial taste coats the mouth, but thankfully the higher proof brings a lovely spice to the mix, which balances the young mash well. With the grains coming through well due to the age, but the sweetness and spiciness balancing out, it's hard to tell if this is a rye or wheat base, but I would lean towards rye. The finish polishes away some of the sweetness, and actually tastes a little bit more aged than just 1 year, if that's truly only the case.

Wow, this one is so smooth for being so young. The bottle says it’s blended with barrels no less than 1yr old. Very different from most bourbons I’ve tried. It’s bright, but does not bite. It has a shoe leather and old barn must that I love. And I think I can taste the corn. Would be interested to know the mash bill for this one. I am shocked that there is almost zero info on this one on the internet. And not even a real profile for it on this app. Maybe it’s that new. Either way, I’m loving it and enjoy how different it is from the others in my collection.

Nose: dust and wood with some corn, and what I always think is pecan nuts I get on young bourbons...some people might call that a funk, who knows. Taste: medicinal notes but also some butterscotch. It actually tastes a little older than the nose which seems quite young (and this is less than 2 years I believe) Finish: short, mostly a woody spice This really isn’t bad for a cheap, young bourbon. I’ve definitely had worse. Will be interested to see the older expressions.

Bought a bottle to try being pushed and advertised by bottleking - my favorite store. Taste like a very young bourbon, all initial flavors (vanilla butterscotch) are overwhelmed. By alcohol burn and long burned aftertaste. Not great not too bad have to find a use for it

On the nose i get corn bread, butter scotch candy, musty hay and some cooking spices, the palate is creamy and smooth with a hint of the butter scotch and corn bread, the finish is hot, as one would expect from a whiskey this young, and short with some musty corn.