The most original single malt flavor terms you ever heard.

[Quaich1]

I often get a kick out of some of the more unusual and esoteric flavors, aromas, smells and tastes associated with single malt scotch that people, connoisseurs, aficoanados and just plain scotch drinkers use to describe their experiences. Some of the more unusual ones I have come up with myself are: chinook salmon breath, overheated fan, peanut brittle lollipop, giant grasshoppers in the grass, zoo smell melange, among others. What have you come up with or heard? I'm sure w'ell get some great stuff here and some chuckles.



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[Alexppp]

[bifter]

The SMWS tasting notes are often worth a giggle but a little whimsical.

I was particularly tickled by coming up with umami to describe a whisky once, but I'm sure it's been used somewhere before.

Daredevils gobstoppers were sweets that we got in the UK in the 1970s that had layers of searing hot cinammon in between cooler layers. I used the term to describe a particuarly fierce Port Charlotte in one of my reviews but it's a bit esoteric.
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