I'm not saying it doesn't have a good taste for what it is (a smoky peated beer), I'm just saying that I would've MUCH rather have been able to taste the Green Bullet, Nelson Sauvin, & Matoka hops and the shortbread, fudge, & candy floss, and the influence from the whiskey barrel aging vs. a smack in the face of peat smoke and some other flavors there that can't really be appreciated.
My take in a nutshell: "What's the point of spending all the money on the fancy hops and ingredients and barrel aging if you're going to overpower the whole thing with peat smoke."
-The beer would have tasted 97% the same without the fancy ingredients and barrel aging because it's so smoke-forward.
If you can't taste it, it's a "marketing feature" not a "beer flavor feature" to put it in IT terms.
Adam
