Black Boar Barrel Aged 2015
The White Hag in Ballymote, Sligo, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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A fierce and powerful creature was the Black Boar. This huge beast played a massive role in shaping ancient Irish history. Famously the Black Boar killed, and was killed by Diarmuid the warrior while he answered the challenge of his archrival Fionn Mac Cumhaill on the mountain of Ben Bulben in County Sligo. The Black Boar has come to represent resilience. Fitting then that this black, silky Imperial Stout should carry the name of one of ancient Ireland’s most notorious icons.
Description:
An intensely flavoured, big dark ale. Roasty and bittersweet, with a noticeable alcohol presence. Dark fruit flavours meld with roasted coffee and dark chocolate notes to create a very full-bodied, velvety, luscious texture.
Tasting Notes:
Rich and intensely complex flavours of dark chocolate, roasted malts, and robust coffee. Full bodied, with soft carbonation, finishing with a mellow alcohol warmth.
Ingredients:
Water, barley, hops, oatmeal & yeast.
Description:
An intensely flavoured, big dark ale. Roasty and bittersweet, with a noticeable alcohol presence. Dark fruit flavours meld with roasted coffee and dark chocolate notes to create a very full-bodied, velvety, luscious texture.
Tasting Notes:
Rich and intensely complex flavours of dark chocolate, roasted malts, and robust coffee. Full bodied, with soft carbonation, finishing with a mellow alcohol warmth.
Ingredients:
Water, barley, hops, oatmeal & yeast.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 0.75l from our archive, the last one from our beautiful Ireland trip. Vintage 2015. Dark brown to black colored, opaque. AROMA- peated, alcohol, roasted malts, dark chocolate, nuts, licorice. FLAVOR- smooth and creamy, quite warming, neutral, moderately bitter, the same as aroma. Fuller bodied. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2020
at 20:04
8/10
3.9
Tried
on 25 Dec 2017
at 22:42
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at Cotteridge convention 05/03/2016. Thanks to Steve I’ve known . An opaque black coloured pour with no head. Aroma is tart plums, smoky medicinal tcp, . Flavour is composed of smoked earth, medicinal, , TCP, phenols, brown sugars. Palate is sugars, moderate carbonation, meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2017
at 15:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max’s place. Thanks Tom L. Black with a tan head. Aroma of lots of peated whiskey, iodine, wood, a bit of vanilla, alcohol, dark chocolate, roast. Sweet flavor, a bit salty, with a light sourish note, with chocolate, roast, wood, lots of booziness, and lots of peated whiskey. Full-bodied. A bit too much peated whiskey and alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2017
at 06:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared with Niilstrong @ hotelroom. Opaque black color, medium sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, dark malts, raisins, sweetish, liquor, rum, lightly bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Hmm ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2017
at 20:25
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dark greige head, not stable; black beer. Cigar, chocolate, Islay malt, roast. Superb balance despite the different vectors: dry, chocolate, Islay whisky, hefty burn. Full bodied, but not thick; some alcoholthinning, just enough carbonation left. Excellent. Ticks all the boxes just right. Whatever its example was, the beer is an enrichment to the scene.
Tried
on 31 May 2016
at 12:56
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared at Cotts Convention ii, thanks to Steve BIK, 05/03/16. Pitch black with a dirty tan head - a decent looker. Nose is peated malt, spice, chocolate, light roast, toffee. Taste comprises wooded notes, dark chocolate, treacle toffee, light peat, smoke, fruit rinds. Medium + body, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a peated rise. Decent enough offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2016
at 14:21
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Cotteridge Beano v2. Black. Tan head. Nose has peat. Sweet smoke. Earth. TCP. Phenols. Dry, roast bitter. Not for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2016
at 11:09
8/10
Tried
on 16 Mar 2016
at 17:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to BIK the 2016 Cotteridge Convention. It pours black with a small tan head. The aroma is rich, oily, bitter – sweet, vanilla, oak, rocky road, smoked peat and slightly medicinal vibe. The taste is rich, bitter, chewy malt, roasted malts, smoked peat, rocky road, vanilla, oak and some alcohol with a warming finish. Medium - full body and moderate carbonation. I thought the barrel aging worked really nicely on this one. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2016
at 10:05