52.48 Sea salt and szechuan pepper (Malt of the Month)

Description

From the team

This is a super cool malt and we’re really excited to share it with you all as our second Aussie-exclusive for 2025. This was selected by our team’s Marketing Manager, Adam Ioannidis, way back in February. You can expect some charred BBQ and BBQ Samboy chip notes on the palate; leave it in the glass long enough and you might even detect some of the 7-11 slushie syrup coming out. The palate gets even better with smoked, honeyed cashews coating your mouth. A 14-year-old HTMC-matured cask-strength whisky.

Tasting Panel notes

The nose suggested coastal fog round a shipbuilders yard: clean and subtle, with additional hints of clover honey, golden syrup, fruit salad chews and banana split. It acquired more self-confidence on the palate, with intense flavours of salted caramel pieces in dark chocolate, salted liquorice and green olives, grapefruit and lime acidit, and an aftertaste of Szechuan pepper and ship’s timbers. The nose in reduction delivered wood shavings, perfumed pear, salted plantain chips, chocolate and pepper spice. On the palate, we now found coffee, apple cake, white wine gums, cinnamon bark and dry-roasted peanuts. The much-vaunted maritime character was subtle but undeniable.