Alpha State Larsen's Ruin (Ardbeg BA)

Larsen's Ruin (Ardbeg BA)

 

Alpha State in Horsmonden, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
Score
7.27
ABV: 10.0% IBU: - Ticks: 25
Imperial Breakfast Stout aged in Ardbeg Barrels.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap @ CBC, 14. Black with small brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and peat. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, medium sweet, peat, ash, whisky, iodine and medium bitter.
Tried from Draft on 03 Jun 2014 at 22:08

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malty and coffee. Whiskey, toasted and malty. Caramelish. Mild tarish, iodine and herbal. Bitter and bone dry. Roasted and smoked finish.
Tried from Draft on 17 May 2014 at 03:16

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[5/3/14] Draught sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration. 4th session. Black with a brown head. Smoked whiskey aroma with some chocolate in the background. Bittersweet flavor full of peaty smokiness, roast and some coffee and chocolate. Full-bodied. Really good.
Tried on 16 May 2014 at 11:00

6.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
03.05.2014, tap @ CBC:
Nice brown creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet and well peated, dark sugar, peat, leather, burnt caramel, ashtray, cocoa, coffee, whisky, hay, tar. Taste is very dry peated, tar, ashtray, burnt caramel, burnt coffee, cocoa, hay, leather, whisky, oak. Longlasting bitterness, very dry burnt mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Tried from Draft on 09 May 2014 at 11:54

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Sampled @ CBC 2014. Opaque pitch black color, beige head. Aroma of malts, dark malts, loads of peat and fingerpaint I used in school as a kid. Taste malts, dark malts, peat, bitter, roasty, some alcohol. Fortunately a little less peaty in the taste than in the aroma. nicely barrel aged.
Tried on 07 May 2014 at 05:20