Because of the price and the brand's marketing, we know this is a product targeted toward mixed drinks. How will it hold up neat?

These finishes are all virgin oak barrels, and include Mizunara, French oak, and toasted American oak.

Concerning the maturation on this 12 year old bottle - it's generally a mixture of ex-bourbon casks and ex-sherry casks.

Old Forester "1915," a popular homemade blend of two of Old Forester's Whisky Row bottlings: 1910 'Old Fine Whisky' and 1920 'Prohibition Style.’

One of the most reasonably priced 18 year old Scotch whiskies.

While many American malt whiskies use a mashbill contained 100% malted barley, that isn't the case here - we only have 51% malt

We have a bottling that's a few years old - it came before their latest rebrand, which took place around 2020.

Some will grieve the move away from the old vintage-stated bottles, but the distillery still seems to be committed to quality.

For a whisky to be truly organic, the entire production process has to be changed and regulated.

The rights to the brand were acquired with the Old Fitzgerald brand by Heaven Hill in the 1990s; this product didn't come to market until the 2010s, though.

This incorporates an additional finishing cask into the maturation process; in this case, it's Pedro Ximenez-seasoned sherry casks.

The least common of the three types of 12 year Macallan bottlings, this Triple Cask was previously known as the 'Fine Oak' 12 Year Old.

One interesting feature of the Teaninich distillery is its use of a hammer mill and mash filter - this is a relatively unique setup in Scotland.

This one is proofed down to 47.2% ABV, or 94.4 proof. Will it be able to deliver enough flavor at that strength?

Independently bottled Caol Ila has become quite expensive in recent years, despite its relative abundance.

While Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottlings from Campbeltown are less common, we still get a few casks from Glen Scotia from time to time.

The cask in question this time was a second fill ex-bourbon barrel, which could hint at some slightly more spirity flavors; the heavy peat smoke flavor might be a bit more intact, too.

This bottle spent the first part of its life in an ex-bourbon hogshead, like many of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottlings do, before it was moved into a Heavy Toast Medium Char (HTMC) hogshead.

Like all Raw Cask bottlings, this is totally unfiltered after it's drawn from the cask - there's plenty of sediment and char sitting at the bottom of the bottle.

Stranahan's, out of Denver, Colorado, is using ex-Oloroso sherry casks to finish one of their single malt bottlings.