The name South Hollow Spirits jogged our memory a bit, and lo and behold – we’ve had their rum. The rum was an overall failure, was barely able to be mixed, and hilarious overpriced. This too is a small batch and is ridiculously priced as well, but mercifully it’s nowhere near as deplorable.
Caramel Nyx: 8.0 – We’ve had Nyx before, and it can’t be understated that we are huge fans. There is just so few beers that are as good as Nyx and are not priced crazy. So what happens if you were to add caramel? Well pretty much exactly what you’d expect. The addition makes Nyx a little bit more coffee like, but it’s still amazingly delicious.
Price Average: $9 but like good luck
Website: www.whitebirchbrewing.com/
So given our restrictions in reviewing (we don’t know what they are tbh), we have this whiskey which is really more like a rum, simply because it’d been aged heavily by the process, and that matters. Teeling isn’t a typical whiskey, having been aged in rum casks, but we do have some thoughts on it.
As we know at Honest Booze Reviews the cardinal sin is to outright lie, or to in some way deceive. This is why we hate it when a smell gives us such hope for a taste that is lacking. It’s why when a vodka claims to be ‘elegantly smooth’ but burns like acid that we feel cheated. We understand why it happens, because for a lot of people their booze buying comes into either A. Go with what you know from some friend/family. B. Be adventurous and try something random/on sale. Often in those cases the decision to try something new can come down to things like what it says on the back, the overall look, and things like years.
Oaked Wee Heavy: 5.5 – I have a suspicion that someone at White Birch is having a laugh by calling this a wee heavy. They previously had a scottish style as an apprentice series and as part of their small batch we get another kind. I say this because this beer can be best classified as a nap.
Google Shop Average: Oaked Wee Heavy $8
Website: http://www.whitebirchbrewing.com/
The issue with small batch vodka’s in America is that while they are obviously better than a lot of the other lower tier American vodkas – they are often hard to find and expensive.
