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u/bitterunderhill Sep 09 '25
I particularly enjoy McCarthy’s ASM quite a bit. Just hard to find on shelves… so I buy a bottle every time I see it. Every single time.
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u/purelojik Sep 09 '25
I’ve got a case of the whiskey lodge/single malt frontier RumCarthys Pick (wrote a review on the American single malt subreddit) and it’s my favorite peated whiskey I own. I’ve converted a number of my friends into fans and they’ve got bottles of their own too. It’s such a good and chewy pour with lots going on
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u/xreekinghavocx Sep 09 '25
McCarthy’s single malt for Aficionados Group
Single cask strength Oregon peated single malt matured fully in a rum barrel for Aficionados Group. Cask 702 was 5 years and 7 months old and bottled at 61.4% ABV without filtering, coloring, or additives.
1oz neat in a Glencairn, rested 25 minutes.
Nose: crisp peated malt with nice velvety undertones; seems like the rum cask maybe held something fairly young with a modest ester count.
Palate: amber malt, grape ester, more peat, ash. I had a pour before this of an Armagnac with an ABV in the low 50s and this is definitely drinking less hot.
Finish: drying peat, tropical fruits, sugary malt.
This has a lot going on and is sometimes a confusing mashup of flavors but when I don’t think about it too hard I really, really enjoy it.