The BEST American Single Malt We've Tried? | Westland American Single Malt BLIND REACTIONS & REVIEW
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This is a very good ASM. I’m super impressed. The aging of the Barley in the US seems to work very well, I think it matures much differently than “Scotch” in Scotland and it’s amazing how distilleries here are able to produce a very high quality product in 3 years versus 8-10 years. I’m guessing it’s the variance in temperatures in places like Washington State or Texas (Balcones) that are making the American Single Malt so much fun to enjoy.
Thanks for the review!!
Y’all need to try Westward and Balcones single malts also AND if you haven’t already Woodford reserve malted.
This makes me happy that you liked it Josh. Erin...you're dead to me. 🤣 I'm interested to see how the other Westland samples you have will stack up to this as well as the other American single malts. Cheers!
We're super excited to give the others a try now that we've had this one!
As a new bourbon and whiskey guy, I appreciate these reviews as it gives me something else to look for to expand my experimentation. I know several people have mentioned Balcones Single Malt and it's one that is also on my list to try. They are just down the road from me and I love supporting local businesses.
Stranahan's takes victory for best American single malt on my palate, but I am happy to see more and more options coming available.
I need to send you a bunch of Westland. I've got half a dozen single barrels that are pretty amazing now that they're 7-9 year old whiskey. I also recently got their new Solum release which is the first peated whiskey that was peated with American peat (to the best of my knowledge).
I have a single barrel pick from them and it’s by far my favorite whiskey right now. Downright chocolate raspberry craziness. They are really into something.
Thanks for the review, this is on my get list. It's available in my state, it just hasn't been close by (200 miles away). I'll patiently wait until I see it. Thanks again!
If you like this - try WestWARD from Oregon - I like their American Single Malts even better! 🥃
Fully agree!
I love Westland. My first American Single Malt. I agree with the density. I described it as tasting like a Speyside with added Speyside extract.
Haven't had that one, but I do love me some American Single Malts, and Colorado has multiple choices. Stranahan's makes some awesome stuff. My favorite right now though, is from good ole Tennessee, JD Twice Barreled.
I enjoy drying and a bit of smoke/oak in a dram. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Cheers!
American Single Malts are a category of whiskey that I have really come to enjoy lately. I am going to have to try this one. I have really enjoyed single malts from Balcones and especially one from Cedar Ridge Distillery called the Quintessential.
Just tried this and Stranahan's both recently. I'm a fan of them both.
I would like to see which whiskies have ranked the highest on your bell curve. I watch a lot of your content and love it, thanks
When we did the bell curve scoring we kept an online catalog of those scores available to the Patreon community, and now that we do the simplified thumbs up/down scoring we still keep a catalog of those scores and links to the respective videos available to the Patreon members.
Haven't tried any American single malt yet. That will definitely be my next whiskey adventure. Tough to find in Ohio, but I plan on starting with Westward when I get around to it.
Try some Del Bac single malt. Great stuff. Their thing is mesquite smoked malts. Nothing like scotch which I'm not a fan of. They also make unsmoked single malts and a smoked rye which really surprised me.
I'm surprised you could get through the tasting without mention "coffee", which is one of the dominant notes I always get. Love this stuff! (and not just because I live a couple miles from the distillery)
Taste is a funny thing, especially blind. We're never not surprised at how different people interpret different notes in a pour.
The totally different takes you each got on the Westland Single Malt inspires a question. Do you ever compare notes on what you ate or drank just prior to a tasting? Erin, you recently ate peanut butter before a tasting and wondered if that had skewed your palate. That got me thinking. I'm a rye guy (and a wry guy), and my super flavorful Wilderness Trail storepick can either be exquisite with clear, distinct notes, or muddled and blurry. So before I do my nosing and sipping, I often ponder what I consumed just prior that may have left my tastebuds parked in a particular orientation. A palate is unique to the individual, and body chemistries vary, so I'm never surprised by opposite preferences. I think nobody does blinds like you two and what I super appreciate is your honesty no matter the results. Even if a Pappy 15 ends up coming in second to some no-account riff-raff whiskey that ages in the truck. Not that that could ever, ever happen 😅
Josh here. Great question Larry. We approach it from two different angles, actually. Both kinda fit our personalities. Erin is more the casual/social whiskey sipper so she pretty much just lives here life and eats as she normally would without too much regard, because most folks don't really change or limit what they eat based on what they're drinking later. Me being more of the whiskey nerd, I always eat the same thing prior to any tasting which is a pretty bland meal of scrambled eggs, toast, and yogurt. I purposefully eat this neutral meal an hour before we get into any channel content to ensure I've got food on my stomach and a neutral palate. We almost always have a couple of small warmup sips of a known bottle to ensure things don't taste off or weird before we get started into a blind as well. Great question!
@@stuffandwhiskeyJosh, I like that you are the "control neutral" and Erin is more haphazard, the way most of us roll here in the real 'Merica. If this were Friends, you would be Ross and she would be Phoebe. Your different approaches to tasting end up giving us a rounded picture.
@@larrymoffitt2386 the Friends analogy is a GREAT one!
great episode, American single malts are coming on
Havent had westland, would be interested if i could though. havent seen them around here in a long time.
Looks like you guys are the new "Bourbon Blind"
Wonder what happened to them
Good question, Aidan. Kyle and company had been doing their channel for a solid few years before we ever started and it's possible it may have just ran its course for them, or maybe he just got busy and hasn't had time to make content. When we got started we tried to actively make things a bit different here from Bourbon Blind with our head-to-heads, conversational topics, and different approach to rating whiskey, but there's definitely a lot of alignment in our sensibilities for sure. One thing is for sure, doing blinds is not the best way to grow a RUclips channel, but it's what we enjoy most and I think Kyle would agree as well. Gotta stay true to yourself.
WHISKEY CHEERS 😎
How do you not know what’s in your glass…on your own podcast…when it’s the two of you?
Blind sample pool. We like to not know.
Shame to kill the great taste of a barley malt by letting it age in a bourbon barrel. I can taste and smell that it's had at least some amount in one, which is not unlike alot of barley malts at least nowadays. I'll move along.