A rye whisky from Michter's, their standard US 1 Single Barrel offering.

It's the fifth annual release of their Peat Week series, and this one is a combination of 5 casks, yielding a total outturn of 1,083 bottles.

Our next stop in the USA is New York, where Kings County Distillery resides. They make a single malt with imported barley from Scotland, which has been lightly peated.

The cask strength bottling of ASW’s ‘Tire Fire,’ made using 45ppm peated barley from Scotland.

Westland's Peated single malt - this will be smoky, but according to the distillery, the amount of peated malt in the mashbill is actually outweighed by unpeated malt, most of it grown in or around Washington state.

From the Miyagikyo distillery, and bottled under the Nikka umbrella, this bottle of single malt is supposedly made of a mix of unpeated and lightly peated malt.

One of the best known quality Irish whiskies, Redbreast has been winning awards and gaining popularity over the past several years.

The Peat Monster by Compass box - it's a blend of Caol Ila and Laphroaig, two of the most well know heavily peated Islay distilleries.

The Double Peat, a blend of two undisclosed single malts, one from Speyside, and one from Islay. Both parts are peated, so we can expect plenty of smoke here.

Crafted by Angus Dundee distillers, this blended malt could present some good value.

A non-age stated release, this one is supposedly a mixture of several ages and cask types: from 7 to 21 years old, and including barrels, butts, and quarter casks, as well as ex-bourbon and ex-sherry styles of cask preparation.

This Cairdeas release uses the fortified Ruby Port wine, as well as some other undisclosed "wine" casks.

Laphroaig's usual brine, ashy peat, and medicinal notes will add their own twist to the ex-sherry or ex-wine cask whisky formula.

This is Whistlepig's Old World Rye, which mixes the traditional new oak barrel maturation with a combination of Madeira, Sauternes, and Port casks.

A blend of Canadian and American rye whiskies - this has also been in Martinique rum casks, Madeira casks, and finally apricot brandy casks

Minor Case Straight Rye, hailing from Limestone Branch Distillery in central Kentucky, is finished in sherry casks.

Uigeadail is said to be the favorite whisky of the 120,000+ strong Ardbeg committee.

Named for a whirlpool near the Isle of Islay, this hefty bottle comes in at a 'cask strength' of 57.1%, so it should be packing plenty of flavor and smoke.

The first of three NAS Ardbegs we’ll look at - An Oa is named for the Mull of Oa, a rocky peninsula on the Isle of Islay.

The baby brother of Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Proof, this Tennessee whisky still comes in at 47% ABV.