Advent 2022 #12 - Peat's Beast Cask Strength PX Finish`

I picked this up a while ago interested in trying the various blends and unbranded malts that might work as a nice budget alternative to some more preferred drams. Finally getting to try it.

Peat's Beast Cask Strength PX Finish, Scotland Single Malt, 54.1% ABV

Minutia: All I know is that’s it’s from a single distillery. Reviewed blind, neat in an opaque glencairn.

Color: 0.4

Nose: Smoke, musty fruit, salinity and minerality. Rich tobacco and leather.

Taste: Musty fruit, wood, spice. Nutty.

Finish: Smoke and ash and iron. Medium-long.

Guess: That Rioja Ledaig. Wouldn’t be terribly surprised if it’s an Octomore, Laphroaig, or even a peated Bunnahabhain, but there are really only an element or two of each in here and I doubt it’s one of them.

Interesting. The palate is certainly less interesting than the nose, but not by a lot, and the nose is a great benchmark if being compared to it. I don’t really have a guess to the source as there’s no region listed, so this could have come from a mainland or island distillery rather than Islay.

Score: 84

Musical Evocation: Beast in Black – “Berserker”