Sea Fog 7 Year Old American Malt Review

By Richard Thomas

Rating: B

Rhode Island’s Newport Distilling, makers of Sea Fog Whiskey, have billed their American Single Malt as a whiskey made in the American and Scottish traditions. The latter in particular is most visible in the details, drawing on a wort of peated and pale malts, distilled in a pot still, and aged in used bourbon barrels. Keeping in mind that the whiskey is made from 7 and 8 year old stock and has been around in that mature formulation since 2016, it’s simply amazing that it isn’t better known. Sea Fog is bottled at 90 proof.

The Whiskey
Sea Fog even has a Scots or Irish look to it in the bottle, with a pour taking a golden cast, as opposed to the amber imparted by new oak aging. The nose leads with crisp, green apples and wet, cut hay, with a note of cedar and wet clay rising on the back end. On the palate, the sweet side transitions into a caramel and butterscotch candy, rolled in malted and toasted cereals. On the finish, that sweet and cereal note fades away to leave behind just a tinge of woodiness. Although certainly a nice, pleasant whiskey, and certainly hits its trans-Atlantic mark well enough, it also lacks in that distinguishing something needed to get it up to a B+.

The Price
I have seen this item priced between $45 and $50 per 750 ml bottle.