Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone (or, if you’re reading this in the future; good night, because the internet is projected into your dreams). I do hope everyone is well since we last spoke, and if all isn’t well, the product I’ll be discussing will certainly heal many of your woes. That’s right folks, this week I’ll be writing about Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky.
“Now just wait a minute!” many of our sharper-eyed readers will say, “this is a beer column, but I don’t think Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky is a beer.” Well, eagle-eyes, you’re quite right there, Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky is in fact not a beer…BUT A WHISKY!
“But how could you betray my trust in such a way?” says our one hypothetical reader, “I expected a column discussing beer, I feel very misled.” And for this I must apologize, but there are two very good reasons for this.
- Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky is delicious.
- I forgot I had an article due this week, and…well, it’s what I had.
- Wait did I say there was two reasons?…never mind.
Now, again our hypothetical reader may be asking, “How did you come by such a concoction? Canadian Maple Rye Whisky sounds like something a wizard makes.” And you may be right. As I’m sure you are aware (based on the fact that you’re reading this, I can only assume you have good taste), maple things are delicious. Whiskey is also delicious. Literally nothing could be wrong with this.
I came by this particular brand whilst doing the ever exciting task of my laundry. While awaiting the finishing of my load I began to examine my surroundings, which, while being not very interesting (a Laundromat connected to a shawarma restaurant) I happened to notice a spattering of magazines, most of which appeared quite silly, but one of which, caught my eye. It was about whiskey. Featured on the front page of this magazine was the rock band The Trews. On the second page was an article regarding Canadian Maple Rye Whisky, and in particular, Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky. Needless to say, I was sold.
My load finished, and I quickly transferred it to the dryer. Now finding myself with an hour to spend I decided to venture down to my local LCBO, to see if I could rustle up some of this mysterious maple concoction. I found it, and rushed home to open it, like Charlie Bucket after finding the golden ticket.
The bottle itself is a lovely shape, almost like a big bottle of syrup, very pleasing to the eyes, with the whiskey inside being a lovely light golden colour. Upon opening the bottle, the smell of maple is distinctly noticeable, but not overwhelmingly so, smelling very much like an alcoholic sugar shack. If someone made a candle of exactly that smell, I would buy several of them.
The rye flavours aren’t very strong in this but the maple flavour sure is. The maple flavour is very rich as well as an almost foresty taste. It’s almost what I imagine licking the outside of a maple sugar shack would taste like, in the best of ways. The flavour really lingers and has a very nice warm finish, an excellent sipping experience all around, particularly for those of you who like maple…which should be everyone.
On the whole, this was a lovely drink to have and a great accompaniment to the show Justified, which I just started watching (it’s really good). It isn’t overwhelmingly strong, and is great to have either when kicking back to relax, or while doing WatPD. It also seems like it would be a great whisky to mix fancy cocktails with. Overall I give it a whopping 4.78 Surly Bartenders out of 5 Surly Bartenders.
Join me next week when I will be discussing the pluralisation of the word Platypus.
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