What Does Integrity Taste Like In A Glass, Evan Williams 12 year delivers & why The Bourbon Community Will Never Let You Down

We drive from the Ohio Craft Distillery Whiskey Festival to Whiskey Thief, lose a wallet, and find it untouched, reinforcing why the bourbon community feels different. We close with a detailed Evan Williams 12 Year review and scores.

• growth of Ohio craft distilling and key brands
• why bourbon culture rewards integrity and trust
• festival highlights and new connections
• the lost wallet story and what it proves
• Evan Williams 12 Year background and availability
• mash bill, tasting notes, and finish
• final rating on the barrel knock scale
• upcoming Halloween tasting and community updates

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A lost wallet, two festivals, and a reminder that trust still matters. We hit the road from the Ohio Craft Distillery Whiskey Festival at Henmick Farms to a late-night hang at Whiskey Thief, weaving through fresh pours, live music, and a moment that could have ruined the weekend. Instead, it turned into proof that the bourbon community runs on integrity: the wallet was found and returned, money and cards untouched. That small act becomes the backbone of this conversation about why whiskey folks feel like family.

We walk through standout moments from Ohio’s fast-rising craft scene—Middle West Spirits, Watershed, Echo Spirits, Belle of Dayton, and more—sharing quick tasting impressions and the kind of behind-the-table chats that lead to future visits. You’ll hear how festivals help us trade knowledge, line up interviews, and discover where regional styles are headed as local distillers refine their grain-to-glass identity.

Then we pop Evan Williams 12 Year, the 101-proof distillery favorite with a history as a Japan export. We break down the mash bill, the nose of dried apricot and almond, the cinnamon-to-mint transition on the palate, and a long, clean finish. Using our barrel knock scale, we land on a confident 15/18—a distinctive, steady pour that rewards patience without chasing sweetness. If you love practical tasting talk and real community stories, this one hits both notes.

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Chapters

• 1:08 Middle West Spirits Spotlight
• 4:12 Why The Bourbon Community Feels Different
• 6:00 Festivals On The Calendar
• 6:00 Community And Platform Shoutouts
• 7:19 The Wallet Becomes The Story
• 11:44 Choosing Between Two Festivals
• 17:35 Realizing The Wallet Is Missing
• 23:38 Enjoying Whiskey Thief Despite Worry
• 28:22 Dawn Return To Henmick Farms
• 30:26 Wallet Found, Trust Confirmed
• 33:21 Gratitude For The Bourbon Community
• 35:39 Ohio Craft Distilleries Highlights
• 38:03 Evan Williams 12-Year Bottle Breakdown
• 45:26 Nose, Body, Taste, Finish Scoring
• 51:39 Final Score And Takeaways
• 54:25 Closing Notes And Halloween Teaser

Transcript

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Middlewest Spirits was founded in 2008, focusing on elevating the distinct flavors of the Ohio River Valley. Their spirits honor their roots and reflect their originality as makers, their integrity as producers, and their passion for crafting spirits from grain to glass. Their Michelon reserve line reflects their story from the start to the bottle to your glass, with unique wheated and rye bourbons, and also rye and wheat whiskies, the Michelin brand is easy to sip. It might be a grain to glass experience, but I like to think of it as uncut and unfiltered from their family to yours. Tiny ye tonight. And we do a lot of stuff, a lot of lot of stuff, and I I find that I I really feel that the bourbon community is such a close-knit community. The people in it are my type of people, the type of people that I want to hang out, and there's very few people in this community that are not like that. I've been in uh other businesses, I've been in the art business, I've been in the recycling business, and that's not necessarily true the way it is in the distilling industry, mainly the bourbon and whiskey distilling industry, uh, to be specific. There are some exceptions when it comes to people that are playing uh in the sandbox with money. Now that that's one thing that I found that if someone thinks that they can get into this and money is gonna be what's gonna get them into it, and that's what all that matters, then they don't understand the bourbon industry. So uh remember uh tonight we're gonna talk about the bourbon community, and we're gonna talk about that. We went to the Ohio Craft Distillery Whiskey Festival, and then I was able to do my second festival in a day and make it down to the Whiskey Thief Distilling Company's uh whiskey thief festival and see all the people down in Kentucky, Walter and Caitlin. I mean, it was just the whole group was there, everybody, you know, and just had a great time. So met Randy Ford, who's right there, you know, right here with us tonight, had a great time. Uh, there was a lot of stuff that happened, but before I get to this, wotchyburbonboys.com for all things Scotchy Bourbon Boys. And then also remember uh you can get on our website bios, but also t-shirts and Glen Karens. You know, check it out. Uh, if you want to if you see something you like, you know, contact me direct and I'll get it. You don't have to do the whole website thing. Uh we're very personal here, and we have a great, great, what would you say? We're having we, you know, we're part of the bourbon community. So then also remember we're on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok. Uh, we're also on Apple, iHeart, Spotify, and any other places that you want to listen or watch us. We're probably there. I mean, so check us out there. But remember, whether you watch us or listen to us, make sure that you um subscribe, become members, leave super good reviews, give us five-star reviews, and uh we would highly appreciate everything that you can give us and all the feedback that you can give us. And so uh there you go. That brings us to uh the main topic, and it's funny because the main topic deals mainly with this. I have an extremely large wallet. Uh there's a reason for that. Inside my wallet is now it's been reduced down to a little bit, but there is an air tag in it now, too. But I have business cards, I have my challenge coins in my wallet. I bought this specific wallet to carry my challenge coins in the wallet. There's credit cards, there's AAA, there's I mean, that just you know what my license, you know, everything, what's standard. But uh my wallet, if you it usually if some money gets added to it, there's you know, it's almost like the the snaps won't snap. But with that said, that's part of the main topic tonight about the bourbon industry, and it's gonna cut the story that I can tell is gonna cover uh the two that the main thing of this podcast was gonna be about the Ohio Craft Distilleries, uh, whiskey festival and the whiskey thief festival. Uh, that was gonna be the main thing, but the wallet just took precedent this weekend, and I'll tell you, I'll tell you why it took precedent. Um, because I the way I the way that I work is that every single morning, uh I mean I've learned 61 years old. You learn you basically put your wallet in a few different places, but mainly in the same place every night. You put your keys by it, um, charge up your phones, your watch, my my Apple Watch, and then in the morning, it's basically when I'm walking out the door, watch, keys, wallet, two phones. I have the Scotch Bourbon boys phone and my my personal phone. So I'm constantly checking to make sure I have these things on me. Uh early on in my life, I did lose my wallet one time. It was at a drive-in on a date, and it was when I was 17, so there wasn't any credit cards or anything, but it was my driver's license and whatnot. And you're talking about 1980, so there were no cell phones or anything like that. So when I lost it, I lost my driver's license. I think it was a temp license at the time, and whatever kind of weird things that were in my wallet, and some money. And I and it was uh it fell out. We listened to the movie on the radio, so we didn't have to rent anything. They they used to sell rent the little um side speakers that you would do um at the theater. So I lost it, and about two weeks later, a guy calls up and says, Your license is here. Come and give us back our speakers. Well, someone had found my wallet, use my license, and took the speaker. Why in God's name anybody would want to take a speaker from a drive-in theater? I have no idea, but they did. So I explained to them and got my got my license back. Not my wallet. The wallet had nothing in it. I just got my license back, which was a huge uh relief. So ever since then, I've made it a point not to lose my wallet. It was very, very, very proud. I didn't misplace it or anything, and that's a long time until this weekend. So here's the way it was gonna go. Uh I uh Joe Beidinger, who is uh Echo Spirits and part of the Kraft Distillers Guild in Ohio, who initially turned me on to this festival um and also the bottles that they do release. And um I was able to really kind of go to this festival. It's at the Henmick Farms in Delaware, Ohio. And this is the third year that we've attended, and every year it gets a little bit bigger, and uh it's been my in to the Ohio Distillers. Uh the Ohio distilleries. Uh usually the people the right people are at the festivals to talk to and get the information to set up to go visit them because uh I believe craft distillery and distilling in the state of Ohio is uh reaching its it's it's at its peak right now. So that was really it's really kind of cool to go. So I had planned, I had gotten um he Joe set me up, uh helped set me up with tickets, and uh Roxy was gonna go, but at the last minute, she was going to one of her things, she had to go to one of one of her things, so she basically was um not gonna go. So I asked Ann Dimmick of OHLQ to meet me there and come and uh taste whiskey because uh to get anytime you're with Anne, not only does she make it a much happier time, but her knowledge, extensive knowledge of the whiskey industry in Ohio and in general, is uh unlike any other. So it's it becomes educational because the what I don't know about a brand, she'll have everything you need. So Anne, we I met Ann CT came in, he had tickets, and he came down, and uh it was uh, and then also Matt Lisen from Cleveland on the Rocks came down. Got to see Jimmy also. Uh shout out to Jimmy, but Matt, so between uh Matt, who is working for Echo Spirits, uh he is really doing a good job up in Cleveland promoting Echo Spirits. Echo Spirits is up and coming and doing a fantastic job. But we got we went to the so we went to the festival, and now I had a decision to make because my granddaughter is trick-or-treating on Sunday and it's Saturday. And I had to make a decision whether I was going to go to the festival, go home, and then the next morning wake up and my granddaughter was there and do do grandpa granddaughter things and then go trick-or-treating. Uh, or I was gonna go to what Walter Zausch had invited me and Randy and said that there would be a place for us to stay if we came down to the festival. Now, at about five o'clock, I was debating whether I was gonna go with Matt or with Wes and Joe to Echo and do some tasting and get some food and then go home, or if I was gonna drive to Whiskey Thief, and I decided that I was gonna drive to Whiskey Thief. Now, Whiskey Thief from Delaware, Ohio, is three and a half hours. So I left about 10 to 5, and uh it was gonna be cool. So when I got to my truck, I put everything in and I got sat down and I'm like, I should put my coat on. So I had uh my Kentucky Bourbon Festival uh light fall coat, and I got out of the car, grabbed it, put it on, got back in the car, and headed off to Whiskey Thief. It's about five o'clock now. I probably left. And so at about 7:30, I was like, kind of was like noticed that my wallet wasn't in wasn't in my pocket or my back pocket and wasn't on the dashboard. So I kind of started looking, thought maybe I threw it over on the I haven't been known to do that and that type of thing. Well, I started looking and didn't see it, and a couple times it was dark because this is the time of the year, it'll get a little bit darker at this time after next week, because that's gonna be going to daylight, you know, standard time and or savings time, and then I couldn't find it, but I knew I couldn't keep looking because uh it was causing me to drive unsafe, it was not working in the dark, looking, trying to look, turn the lights on, whatnot. So couldn't find this thing. So I got there at about quarter after eight, got out, started looking through the car. It was not there. And I'm just gonna tell you when you lose your wallet, you kind of panic. There's a panic involved, and that's one thing, the stress level. You think about one, there was$300 in the wallet, which is not even is inconsequential to the nine credit cards, uh, six, you know, Visa MasterCard, you know, Scotchy Bourbon Boys card, my debit card, uh, and then JCPenney, Target, Coles, you know, your department store credit cards. My, not to mention my re newly renewed uh driver's license. I mean, there's a lot of stuff. My triple A card, I mean, there's so much in here. Then I'm like, my challenge coins from uh, you know, the the Stavan Thief Society, uh, my challenge coin from Real Talk, Bourbon Real Talk. I mean, honestly, I was starting, I was kind of, but I said, I didn't get out of the car between what between Hen Mick Farms and Whiskey Thief. So it wasn't, I didn't lose it on the on the trip. So I knew it either had to be at Henmick Farms or in the parking lot, just laying there when I put my coat on, or someone to finds it and turns it in, or someone finds it and steals it. But then also I had pumped up with gas at a sheets before the whole festival, and it could have fallen out when I pumped up with gas because I used my phone to pay. So now I'm like, I'll just have the best time I possibly can. So the festivals, um, you know, we got to see so many different people from Ohio, MO Spirits, uh, Dexter. Uh, there are some fantastic things happening, Middle West Spirits. Uh, there was um a Black Diamond, uh uh Adam Fowler, I think that's his name. He was there, got to meet him. Uh, then the the the great people at Echo, um, Wes, Joe, uh, then then also the Bell of Dayton was that distillery was there. Uh Indian Creek. I mean, fantastic, fantastic time. I'm trying to not forget Big Dog. I think that was one. And then there was oh, watershed, you know, kind of re-establishing a relationship with Watershed. But, you know, check out the live on Facebook. It was fantastic. So, anyways, we now I'm at Whiskey Whiskey Thief and thieving from a couple barrels. Uh, I knew that I still had some stuff to do, so I didn't want to um, I wasn't gonna, I never, it was all about quarter ounce pours at at uh the Ohio craft distilling uh festival, and that was great because there was no I probably had three ounces of whiskey in let's just say five hours, five, it would have been five hours. That's not a lot of whiskey for me. Three ounces in five hours, so I was fine to drive down, and now I knew I had to with the festival, so I had a little bit, a couple tastes of the pores, did shot some really good footage for you know YouTube and Facebook and TikTok, and then uh had a good time listened to the music. The bands were fantastic. Walter does such a good job getting people out there. I think um Cleveland, um, I forget his first name, but anyways, uh they the fantastic music, uh, had a good time with Walter, and then thank Walter for putting us. I I will tell anybody, it's called the Bourbon. It's uh Airbnb. Fantastic place to stay. Fantastic, fantastic place to stay. So I hung out with him and Brick, and um Randy, it was it was a great time um learning everything, um, just sitting there, having some special pores, watching you wheel and deal. Uh it was a uh it was a really cool place to stay. And so we were up till about quarter to two, and I knew normally I was gonna try and get out between six and seven, so I was back for trick-or-treat. That's once I made that decision. But I got up at 5 27 and I was sitting there and my mind was racing for this. So I went back. I just said, I'm getting up. I got up, I didn't sit there and race, I just packed up my things, got it. They all knew I was leaving early, got out of there. I think I was driving out the driveway, closing the gate at six o'clock in the morning. Uh, it's funny because again, dark again. So, you know, there's this time of year as it gets it was dark when I went when I drove down, and it was dark when I left. So got on the road and headed to Henmick Farms. So I got there about 20 to 10. And when I rolled in, the first place I was looking, so I also thought maybe I put it on the back of the truck, you know, the pickup truck bed. I have a cover, but it it I didn't think I would do that with my wallet. Even if I did, I'd get it. I wouldn't, I so but I was looking as I was coming in on the side of the road to see if it flew off or anything like that. Nope, it didn't. So what I did was is uh got into the parking lot, went to and it was not in the field where I was parked. And I'm like, strike one. So now it's about after looking, it's about 10 to 10. There's another festival setting up, so I go over by the people by that festival and um say, you know, ask if anybody's coming, and they said Cass is coming at 10 o'clock. And when Cass is, I believe, the owner's wife, she is in charge of the festival. She said to me that the her husband was not there, he was off doing something else while she was getting to you know, doing all the stuff with the festival. I told her to take her time. She, you know, she rolled in about 10. I told her to take her time, get everybody set up, and then at about 10:30, she came over. We went in, and the first thing we did is look in the loss and found nothing. And I was starting to get, and she goes, No, no, just don't worry. She goes, This is where it's this is where bourbon, it's a bourbon festival. And she goes, a lot of times when people turn things in, they leave them by the cash register. So we go into the main thing, it was closed, she opens it up and uh goes over by the cash register, and she goes, Is this it? Because I described it to her and it was my wallet. Now I will tell you that now you go, What's the thing? But the first thing I knew was these snaps right here. If someone had gone through it and turned it in, it wouldn't have been snapped, it would have been like that, but they both were snapped, and I could see the money, there was money in there. So I just when I saw that, I thanked her so much, and then I thanked the bourbon community. My life became way more simpler, and because this is a bourbon festival, it's exactly what I thought. If I found this wallet anywhere, but it was probably in the parking lot, I would have picked it up and I would have taken it in knowing that somebody was freaking out that they didn't have it. Now, the cool thing about it was is it was by the counter and it must have been turned in, you know, near because I left at five and it closed right around that time. So it was turned in. Nobody touched it. I mean, I have cards in here. If they would have opened it up, they could have called me and told me they have my wallet. Now, I have an air tag in here, but that wasn't working because I never paired it after the battery died. It's paired now. I can find my wallet. It would have been nice. I would have loved if that would have worked because an air tag on your wallet would have told you that was there, and I wouldn't have worried as much. But, anyways, I don't know why I was worried. I might probably was worried because what would have happened if I dropped it at the sheets, not at this bourbon festival, because the bourbon people did exactly what it was. Not only did I get my wallet back, but I got my$300 back. There was nothing touched in here. It's fantastic. This is what the bourbon community is about. That's one thing that I, you know, I just want to say. It's just kind of like that's what I love about this community. These are people, we're all in this for each other. The reason why we do this isn't just for ourselves, it's to meet friends uh and and bond and share times and uh you know families getting together. I it's just the bourbon community is so fantastic. I meet people all the time, and those two festivals were not were no different, and then y'all came through for me because when I was, you know, at a lower point. I mean, it's almost like you feel like a failure when you lose lose something like that. So I want to thank the person. Hopefully, if that was at that bourbon festival, they they know this. If you knew uh turn this in, uh fantastic, fantastic, fantastic people. And I'm just ecstatic. It made my my month, my year, it made me it reiterated why I do this podcast, and it reiterated why the people that I meet are so fantastic. So there you go, everybody. Uh, the the Ohio Craft Distillery Festival, I think, was a huge hit. Uh, got to meet a lot of but a lot of connections. Uh, hopefully, uh we have them on, whether that we get them on virtually or we go visit them over this next couple, you know. I'm gonna be staying a little bit closer to home uh in my own state for the winter, so we should be able to have a decent uh thing, you know, a decent uh amount of things going on, and that whiskey festival was attended. Uh, the whiskey thief festival. I want to thank Walter for inviting us down, uh, taking care of us. Uh, it was just that was a fantastic time. Got to meet some new friends and um hang out with some people, and it was just awesome. All right, so that brings us to everybody. I've talked about that long enough. We are going to do the old Louisville. There it is. Barrel bottle breakdown of Evan Williams 12 year. I have not opened this bottle. I bought it. It's the first time I bought an Evan Williams 12 year. I've had a chance to do it a couple times. It's available at the Evan Williams Experience, especially when you take the tour. These are these are sometimes the special bottle that they allow you to buy. Sometimes it's on the shelf, sometimes it's not in stock. The other one that I buy consistently is Evan Williams Master Blend. Uh, I really like that also. But if you look at this Evan Williams, I think I did have, no? Right here? Yes. From a time. So it says, distilled from a time-honored formula, originated in 1783. Evan Williams is produced in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country. This bottle, this bourbon, is aged 12 years for a smoother, more complex flavor. World-renowned by bourbon lovers, available at Evan Williams Bourbon Experience and Select Kentucky Retailers. So that's what you're dealing with as far as um where you can get it, and it's not always readily available. And I passed on it a bunch of times. It's not cheap. I believe it's uh it was when it came out in 2021, I think it was 129, and now I believe it's um one, I want to say 149. It could be 129 still, too. But it's got this cool wax top, it's got the seal. Let's see. Uh there we go. Break that seal. Oh, let's tear through the seal. There we go. I believe, like some of the other, I'm not sure if it's corked or a screw top, but we'll find out. All right, we got the wax off. It looks like it. Could be a screw top. Let's see. Yes, it is. But a lot of times with screw tops with the with the wax, that's not a big deal. So there you go. We just opened that baby. I'll give it a nose. Now I've tasted this many times, and most of the time it's too oak, it's been oaky, too oaky for me. Now I do enjoy Evan Williams, and I love the bottle because it's got the Evan Williams uh the same thing with the master blend with the engraved or the embossed Evan Williams. You get that really nice, cool. You can see it there, right? I think it's let's see, let's do it right here. How about that? Yeah, you can see that. Why did I put it on the back? There we go. There you go. That's for uh the people that can see it on the internet, people on the audio, you know, it's just like you can imagine it's got a raised Evan Williams signature on all four parts of the of the bottle. I'm pouring a little bit in so that will get in there for a little bit. This was a fresh crack, it's a 12-year. And uh we are about to do the old Louisville Whiskey Company barrel bottle breakdown. Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Uh, Amin there does a fantastic, fantastic job. He's got many, many barrels stock stocked in the back in his warehouse. And if you're lucky, he'll take you back there and you can taste through them and get a bottle. Uh uh, it's he he works at it uh with appointments, but he is open daily, so you can check out their gift shop and you know go there, spend a little time. But uh, one of the coolest experiences, I think CT almost has a cot there. That's how much he spends at uh the Evan or at Old Louisville Whiskey Company. But they are in the process of moving to Shively, where they just purchased the C one of the Seagrim's uh older warehouses, and they will be moving the barrels and everything there, and that will be the location. Uh, it's pretty damn cool that location. Can't wait to get down there for the opening of that. Okay, so it still is the same price according to$129.99. That's what Walker's saying. So the barrel bottle breakdowns rating scale is based off of four categories. The two of the nose and the body, you can give up to four knocks on the barrel, and the taste and the finish, you can give up to five knocks on the barrel. But if one is exceptional, exceptional, that you think it's above and beyond, you can add a butt up up. So the total of a perfect bourbon is 19 out of 18, and we did have that just a few days, a few podcasts ago, uh, our first ever 19 out of 18. And then also uh that's it, that's the rating scale. This is going to be the review of Evan Williams 12 year, only mainly available at the Evan Williams experience, but also select Kentucky retailers. Now, this is um I've got some information off of uh bourbon breaking bourbon. Uh, it's classified as Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, and its mash bill is the Evan Williams mash bill, but the old Evan Williams distillery, which is uh Heaven Hill, and its mash bill is 78% corn, 12% malted barley, and 10% rye. I love that. Uh I did not know that Evan Williams was 12% malted barley and 10% rye. Love that. Caramel Color,$129.99. Uh, they also have so Evan Williams 12-year 101 proof bourbon was known. This is off of breaking bourbon. Uh check them out, they're a fantastic website for information. Uh, was known for years as the red labeled Evan Williams export only bourbon that was sold exclusively in Japan. However, since opening the Evan Williams experience in downtown Louisville in 2013, consumers have been able to purchase Evan Williams 12-year 101 proof bourbon at this distillery. The bourbon has remained a distillery exclusive in the US while being exported to Japan. So there you go. You really want to get it. Hey Matt, good to see ya. So the nose is definitely um has a nice, but it's got nutty and it's nutty and fruity. I would say there's a little bit of a I want to say apricot or tangerine. But there's definitely a nutty almost like a hazelnut. Not real sweet, but Evan Williams isn't a sweet bourbon. So here it says they say proof 101, burnished copper. So they're getting honeyed, almond, mint, and fruitcake notes. Let me see. I will go with the nut being a little bit almond-y, it's a little sweeter than normal. And as far as fruitcake. Yeah, the the apricot could be like a dried, dried apricot, and there could be a little bit of that cherry, candy cherry thing that you have in the fruitcake with the nuts. Yeah, I'll give it that. Okay. Alright, so let's see what it does in our glen. There we go. We'll roll it around. The great thing about these glens, and I'm gonna give a little shout out to Martin Duffy, who also was at the Ohio Craft Distillery Festival. He is the Glen Carron, Crystal Glen Caren Glass Company's North American representative, and he is responsible for bringing the Glen Carens to all the festivals, all the distilleries, and to the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. You can get one of these babies, contact me, and I'll get it out in the mail. So I'm looking, it is the viscosity, it is holding on the side of this glass a long, long time. Have not seen nothing develop yet. There we go. Just starting to. Oh, they're long. That has some nice viscosity to it at 101. I mean, the it's almost pretty how the pattern formed, and now it's showing straight across. So nice. It's gets a two it starts off with at least a two on body. All right, let's do this. Wow. There's a cinnamony taste. That's quite spectacular. And minty on the finish a little mint on the finish. The cinnamon goes to like a a a little sweeter red hot to a mint minty breath mint. Not bitter. It's nice for a 12-year. And it's a long finish. This doesn't compare to like old fitts. I mean, I'm not saying it's it's not good. I'm saying it's nothing like old fitch to the old Fitzgerald's or the the eighteen year old Elijah Craig. They're much much sweeter. All right. At one oh one. That is interesting. It hits the cheeks. No, it's to me tonight. So let's go off of the nose on the barrel bottle breakdown. I like the nose, but it's a little different than most, so it's different. So I think the nose on this twelve-year-old is a three on the scale of four. All right. Tonight, nobody's writing down for me. I'm gonna have to remember, fellas. All right, here we go. You can't complain. That is a fantastic body. I'm gonna tell you it's really good. I mean, it hits the cheeks. It's everywhere. And the taste is quite quite pleasant. So I'm gonna as far as the body goes, I am going to give it it, it hits it at 101, it's hitting a one, it's definitely hitting a four on the body. All right. So this one is saying, for taste, bold and spicy with rye notes and a hint of licorice. No. Not this one. I'm not getting that with this. I'm sorry, Tracy. I could say you're part of us, and you could be part of the boys, but I will say, I will retract my statement and say, All you good whiskey drinkers. All right, here we go. Are they meaning black licorice or red licorice? I would say it starts off with honey on the tip of your tongue. And then when you go, you hit that cinnamony type thing, then it turns to like a cool minty thing. And I think they would be referring to like if they were gonna say anything, I would say it would be more like anise than black than licorice. But the final flavor, so for for taste, this is quite good, an enjoyable pour, very enjoyable. I will say the taste is a four. Now the finish. The finish is long. But it's not off putting. Um which is not unpleasant, but not probably what I'm looking for a favorite when I'm drinking bourbon. So I would say out of five, I would give it the finish. I'm gonna give the finish a three. So okay, that was the taste. The finish is brown sugar, smoky oak, long and vanilla-like. I'm gonna go still with my finish. It's a good finish. So my score was three on the nose, four on the body, for a total of seven of eight, and then four, which put me to twelve, and then three. So this Evan Williams 12 year picks up 15 out of 18. Now, let's go back to this Evan Williams. So we talked about the mash bill was uh 101 proof, 12 years old, 78 corn, 12 malted barley, 10 rye. Alright. Mmm mmm. Uniqueness. Up until this last decade, Evan Williams, this is back again from Breaking Bourbon. Uh, Evan Williams' 12-year-old 101 proof was sold exclusively in Japan. This never raised many eyebrows as other distilleries did the same, such as Buffalo Trace bottling and exclusive black label Blanton's and Four Roses Super Premium being offered in the Japanese marketplace. Now Evan Williams' 12-year 101 proof can be purchased in the US, albeit at one location and one location only. While the bourbon in the bottle is the same, Heaven Hill decided to make the product look more upscale to match its exclusiveness in the States. What that means is execution in execution is that they just put some gold wax on the top of it, called it, and called it today, called it a day. Beneath the shine is still the same bottle. The standard Evan Williams is bottled in screw cap and all. It's a mine, it's minor in nature, yet when you hold this bottle in your hand next to any other limited release bourbon, it just feels cheap. It's a reminder that the little details go a long way, especially in today's marketplace. Okay, uh this does not feel cheap at all. So I would say I love the gold label. I like the bottle. This is Evan Williams, and it is Evan Williams. It doesn't do anything, it's exactly what Evan Williams is. It's the drinking man's bourbon, and this is completely drinkable. This is perfectly um done. I mean, a 15 out of 18, you're still talking about a damn good bourbon. So there you have it. Evan Williams 12 year. Uh I always thought it was a little over oaked when I've had it before in the past. Not that way. So it the old Louisville Whiskey Company barrel bottle breakdown of Evan Williams 12 year is 15 out of 18. Thank you, Amin. All right, so there we go. Um, I uh yes, and so um I will say tonight I'm gonna call it a night for the audio podcast. 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