England
Batshit Mental Ideas
Brown Drink is possibly the most gosh darn crazy of all the Batshit Mental Ideas. You see, when a certain company out there
takes full bottles of tasty whisky and all sorts of other spirits and turns them into 3cl samples, there's always a tiny
bit left over. Too little to do anything useful with, thought everyone - except that is, for the bonkers folk at Batshit
Mental Ideas who lovingly saved them all for releases of this startling drink.
Like a lot of whisky drinkers, I look for aftertaste more than smoothness. The aftertaste with this little number goes on and on, I have found that twenty minutes plus I am still picking out the different ingredients, its, manic, stupid,awesome,incredible,fantastic and definitely a one off. Not the best I have ever tasted but without a doubt the most interesting.
Received as a Christmas present from someone with a sense of humour - went with the Pirates Grog and Feckin' Spiced! Definite single malt base with hints of spice and fruit, peat and burnt pine, overtone of charred barrel combined with sutble citrus tones, all married with medicinal cough mixture and hints of dentist mouthwash, and contained in a liquid of gin-like oiliness. The reviewer who said what's the point was in essence correct, but at 48 prooff 'ho caresch?
This spirit serves absolutely no purpose. At £15/20 maybe but at this price... awful. The flavours are murky masquerading as complex. Don't waste your money.
The Benedictine, definitely some Benedictine in there. I imagine this will taste a little different every day.
Very gin-like on the nose, medicinal, then in the mouth you get the drambuie kinda clementine hit along with heathery honey, juniper, spicy sweetness. Definite maltiness that is understated but mature, a gentle but firm father keeping watch over the children of the lesser spirits playing in the glass. Long, long slightly dry finish. Great fun, but also deep and mysterious. Make of it what you will, it's beyond all reasoning :)
