Methuselah - BA Imperial Dark Ale - Islay Finish
Abbeydale Brewery in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Regular|
Score
7.16
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BA Imperial Dark Ale
A special release from our barrel ageing programme in celebration of our 30th Anniversary! Here we’ve taken a robust dark beer as a base, which time in barrel has developed to an intense flavour with characteristic Islay profile. Waves of smoke, salt, and potent phenolic peatiness all add to the rich malt character of the original beer. Complex and audacious!
Gluten Free / Vegan
A special release from our barrel ageing programme in celebration of our 30th Anniversary! Here we’ve taken a robust dark beer as a base, which time in barrel has developed to an intense flavour with characteristic Islay profile. Waves of smoke, salt, and potent phenolic peatiness all add to the rich malt character of the original beer. Complex and audacious!
Gluten Free / Vegan
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Pours deep ruby brown, nose is peat smoke, burnt caramel, toffee, some fruit, taste is saline, peat, fruit, toffee, thin. 8/8/7/7/7
Tried
on 03 Aug 2026
at 08:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap. Abbeydale Beerworks. Opaque deep coffee dreg brown. Slim dense glossy beige foam. Huge Islay character here. Peat. Phenols. Smoke. Iodine. In fact it just smells of Islay whisky. No real beery notes at all. Taste is vinous and light tart. Some inevitable woody bitterness. Decent body. Definitely doesn’t lack flavour. Vinous phenolic peaty finish. Doesn’t lack in barrel character but Islay isn’t a favourite for me so rated as I find it.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 May 2026
at 15:57
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle from HOTM. Gluten Free. Black colour, afew bubbles on top dissipating to a thin rim and aroma of phenol, tar, peat, islay whiskey, malt. Taste is phenolic and sweetish, dark malty, islay cask, woody, peaty, tart, liquorice with tangy earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft low carbonation, drying earthy woody islay salty bitter finish. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
at
House Of The Trembling Madness (Stonegate)
on 15 May 2026
at 18:30