What is white single malt supposed to taste like?

[rubelstrudel]

One of the most difficult things of learning to distill is knowing what intermediate steps of the spirit production is supposed to be like. Like me now for example. I have made this single malt white whisky that is sitting there on the counter aeriating. I smell and taste it, feel subtle changes from bottle to bottle. But since this is not the end product - and I have no reference that I can purchase around here - I really don't know if this is the right stuff, or has some problems. I guess it is the same feeling all first time parents have when they see their firstborn - "Is there something wrong with it?"

So how would you describe the taste you're looking straight off the still in a smoked single malt (barley) whisky?

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Here's my hooch. Made from stalled and restarted single malt, peat smoked grain bill.
It smells the same that homemade plum brandy like Slivovitz smells. With grainy tones. Sort of a sour smell.
The taste is rather heavily smoked, as I was expeting it to be. With lots of grain to it, like wet bread.
It's all cloudy. Didn't expect that.