Compass Box The Peat Monster.
July 2018 - Very very pale. Aroma is spiritous, plastic, medicinal, wax, perfumed vaseline and candlesticks, cheapest aftershave, building smoke. Taste is similar, some booze and smoke but a rounded background. Really rounded out palate-wise. Smells slightly cheap and dodgy but tastes really rounded. Pretty solid actually. Definitely has a nice flavour. I'm guessing the whiskies in the blend are pretty young but the flavour isn't harsh at all, and comes together very well. Grew on me it's just not a sniffing whisky up front. Though in saying that the simple smoke did come out on the nose over time. (3.3/79)

Sep 2018 - Aroma is a bit cheesy. Smoked cheese rind. Taste is very nice one-dimensional peat. Loads of peat - even more than Ardbeg possibly. (3.4/81)

Mar 2021 - Compass Box peat monster 46%. This sample is a couple of years old. Quite pale. Aroma has impressions of salt and lemon and seaside food and Scotland. Yep a little peat. Faintly rubbery. Some banana too but not too much thankfully. Impressions of Ardbeg mixed with a Speyside peated malt like Ardmore. Taste is lightweight up front moving to lemon and salt and smoke. The smoke sits there on your breath. Absolutely has to be Ardbeg in this it just shouts Ardbeg. The other parts don't necessarily improve on that vibe but don't dampen it much either. Does not taste young. Builds the peat over time. A good unwinding whisky but it really makes you want to drink an Ardbeg 10. (3.55/85)

Mint, menthol, peat smoke, campfire, tropical fruits, creamy fruit juice texture, fresh peat smoke, a burst of tropical fruits

Brackish Notes
It has been almost 6 years since I last tried The Peat Monster from Compass Box. In the meantime this vatted malt (oops, that must be blended malt now) is part of their so-called Signature Range. We know for sure that it contains Caol Ila and Ardmore – two malts that I quite fancy – so this will surely be to my liking.
Smoke, peat, banana and light brown sugar. That is the nose of this whisky in a nutshell. Well, with a big dose of alcohol in the mix, of course. Something milky shines through which I cannot remember from the previous batch. Coconut milk? I quite like it.
The arrival is fine. Mildly oily with the fruit first, but that is quickly swamped in maritime elements. Smoked fish, seaweeds, brackish notes. The pepper and mostly the cloves give it a spicy edge.
The finish is very long on liquorice and pepper.
I keep having difficulty with the name – for this is not a peat monster in my book – but certainly not with the whisky, for that is simply delicious.

N- Solid, intense aroma of floral smokes at first. Tar, hints of fresh grass reveals with gingseng herbal and hot salted sands.

P- Gentle gingseng roots tea smoke, herbal with sweetness build up overtimes.

F- Long, moderate spicy with touch of candy and nutmeg bitterness.


— at The Whisky Bar, Kuala Lumpur.

3 cheers for compass box, as they keep on delivering some very, very fine blended malts. The nose is strong, full of flavour, a bit oily, with a touch a bitter and nutts. In the mouth, the first thing that is overwhelmingly obvious, is why they called it the peat monster. After a few minutes in the glass, and a bit of water added, it becomes more balanced, with rich palates of flavours breaking through: earth tones, some hazelnutt, smoke, peat, some dark chocolate as well. The finish lasts pleasantly long, smoky and oily.

This will leave many a single malt far behind!

The Peat Monster Compass Box, a

nice whisky based on a mix of Islay single malts and intense Highland

single malts. Has matured in a mix of new and old American oak

barrels

Full palette, rich and tasteful

tones of smoke, peat and subtle hints of fruit and spices

Salty and fruity

aromas

Non-chill filtered and natural

color

Got this as a christmas present off the wife as she knows i like this sort of whisky and it did not disapoint. Love to try some other ranges from compass box, heard some real positive reviews about there other stuff.

A top-quality vatting of the peated Speysider Ardmore with some choice

Islay malt, Peat Monster is never less than excellent. Pitch-perfect

balance and delicious chewy complexity.

A world apart, with plenty of salty peat smoke. Bitterly pungent and strong. A powerful drop, not for all cases. Rough with a lot of bitter overtones on the palate, truly a monster. You have to love him or you let it be.