Initial warm-hot tentative sips tasted pretty bad. As the temperature decreased I found it less offensive, but what it had to offer was unpleasant. The nuttiness you describe is a generous assessment.

I haven’t stepped into a McDonalds before this in at least a year and a half. I am not their target market. Heck, I make myself syphon brewed coffee at home every day with single origin beans.

The coffee tastes like it came from no where and is designed to be mixed with sugar and milk and the residual grease from their food offerings.

Though the crowd of seniors it brought to the McDonalds seemed pleased… I wonder how they would react to a taste of a syphoned cup.

Almost motivates me to try a guerrilla syphon brewing at a McDonalds…

In any case… Smooth? yes, its filtered well, but there is still some visible solids at the bottom of my cup. Nutty? Too far on the rancid/burnt nut side of nutty. Aroma? It made me laugh when I smelled it hot, and smelling the dried out remainder in my cup now is nothing like the smell of butterscotch I’m used to at home.

The initial smell made me take the first sips with a lot more trepidation, so I could have primed my senses for disappointment.

Strongly recommend only using this product as a degreaser.