Compass Box The Peat Monster
Compass Box The Peat Monster
  • smoky smoky
  • peaty peaty
  • fruit fruit
  • butter butter
  • phenols phenols
  • salty salty
  • sweet sweet
  • oily oily
  • hay hay
  • smoky smoky
  • peaty peaty
  • fruit fruit
  • butter butter
  • phenols phenols
  • salty salty
  • sweet sweet
  • oily oily
  • hay hay

Compass Box The Peat Monster

700ml
46% ABV
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  • BrandCompass Box
  • CategoryBlended Scotch
  • CountryScotland
  • DistilleryCompass Box
  • Style Blended Malt Whisky
  • Alcohol46.0%
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The nice kind of monster.

The year was 2000 when John Glaser started the Compass Box Whisky Company in his kitchen, actually. An American in the UK, he used to work for a large distiller before he thought, why not do Scotch Whisky differently and bring back the old model of the Scotch Whisky blending house. So, he committed himself to blending boutique Scotch Whiskies. But how did they go from kitchen to Blending Room in London with more than a dozen of employees, you ask? Not by compromising any quality, that's for sure. Sourcing only the best oak from the Vosges in France and the woods of Missouri, making your own custom casks and seeking only the best casks from the very best distilleries oughta do it. Oh, and unlike mass produced Whiskies, they are careful not to overdo it on the number of components in their blends.

Their Peat Monster has been around for a while, but this wild beast got a makeover in 2019. The new recipe includes older and more elegant Islay malts (Hey, monsters can age gracefully, too!).This means you'll be delighted to discover coastal flavors and some of that smokiness will be combined with driftwood fire and more medicinal peat notes. But wait, there's also orchard fruits and rich cask-derived creaminess to balance all that smoke. This Blended Malt is matured in first refill casks from the Caol Ila and Laphroaig distilleries and custom French oak. Bottled at 92 proof and it's not chill filtered, it's not such a monstrosity after all. In fact, we wouldn't mind running into this monster late at night.

Appearance / Color
Pale straw

Nose / Aroma / Smell
Salted butter and smoky. Coastal aromas.

Flavor / Taste / Palate
Light. Multilayered smokiness and medicinal peat notes. Balanced by a creamy character and the sweetness of orchard fruits.

Finish
Sweet and creamy. 

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Compass Box The Peat Monster

Customer Reviews

Based on 1679 reviews
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Scott
Surprisingly light for a peate...

Surprisingly light for a peated Islay malt. It’s very clean and the peatiness is still very present, but I didn’t get any other pronounced flavors.

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James
Pretty Darn Good!

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Corey
Pretty Darn Good!

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Karen
Thin bodied whisky with heavy ...

Thin bodied whisky with heavy medicinal notes and a touch of smoke and butter.

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Jack
Of the three in the "Peat It 2...

Of the three in the "Peat It 2" tasting box, it was, perhaps, the most disappointing of the three. Not that it was bad, just that it didn't deliver on the peatiness. As I said in my Kilchoman Sanaig review, I'm an ardent drinker of Islay and Speyside scotch, most especially Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg, so those monsterously peaty offerings may have skewed my taste buds a little. Still, I did get some of the 'salted butter' nose. Mouth feel was oily and filled with phenols, which threw me off when it devolved into a very pleasant toasted sweetness. While I like this, it isn't my favorite and I have too many others ahead of it in the "Definitely Buy" and "Buy" catagories.