Whiskey Review: Porter’s Imitation Peanut Butter Whiskey

What did you expect? I’m sorry to share the obvious: It tastes terrible. This tastes like cough medicine for children, and not even in a peanut butter and chocolate flavor. More like peanut butter and jelly. And I loathe PB&J. I always have. Everything about it is gross: the smell, the taste, the jelly seeping through white bread turned translucent with jelly leakage. This whiskey is the equivalent of a sodden PB&J that’s sat in your locker too long or maybe had unsupervised time with the class bully before he returned it to you. For the good of the order, I really do try and not slam whiskies I sample because there is good in everything, and I admire that Ogden’s Own is doing what they are doing and their ambitious plans. Obviously, there’s a market for flavored whiskies. I bet others who like those types of beverages will like this. I’ll also give the company major credit for making hand sanitizer and getting it all out there at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. And at least this bottle of whiskey was not accompanied by a useless, environmentally unsound, shipping-container-sized press kit. But to say I was underwhelmed by this whiskey is a massive understatement.