Lava
(has 1 batch)
Ölvisholt Brugghús in Selfoss, Southern Region, Iceland 🇮🇸
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.68
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Lava is a full bodied, pitch black smoked imperial stout with a thick brown head. Sweet with chocolate and roasted malt in the flavor. The aftertaste is roasted malt, smoke and warming alcohol. Aroma is smoke, chocolate and bit of alcohol.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle...kept cold and pumped for two days after opening, so the carbonation had faded at this point. This is definitely a skewed rate..more of a journal entry than the hyper-accurate numerical score generally attributed. Deep, thick malts, really nice in that regard. Big smoke tones sort of meld with the alcohol tones and gets a little intense, but I love the real malt tones, as opposed to fake me out sugary American Stouts of late. Really enjoyable, well made stuff. Makes me wonder what a glass would go for in Iceland. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2018
at 02:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle - Dark cocoa and some light smoke. Jet black brown with a decent beige head. Cocoa and some light smoke with a long roasty bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2017
at 02:23
7/10
Tried
on 17 Jun 2017
at 13:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at pre-THT. Black with small beige head. Roasted malts, light cow dung, some smoke, dark chocolate, dead leaves, touch of marzipan, light grass and herbs, brown sugar. Medium sweet and bitter. Bit over medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2017
at 15:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, BB 05.06.19 (from Koht). Pours black. Aroma is smoke, greasy bacon, malt. Flavor is sweet and bitter, malt, roast, smoke, dark chocolate, tar. Finish is dark chocolate-roast bitter with some tar thrown in. Alcohol is somewhat noticeable. Overall: very good, bit too tarry for me and not as balanced as the best smoked beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2016
at 17:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Black beer, small head. Aroma is roast, coffee, smoke. Taste is the same, some bitterness, smokey aftertaste, ok beer.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2016
at 15:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bouteille 330ml. Couleur noire opaque, mousse moka foncée laissant un anneau sur les parois du verre, huileuse. Arôme de fumée, malt torréfié, feu de bois,café de torréfaction foncée. Goût de malt torréfié, alcool, légère acidité, café, amertume moyenne, côté fruité. Carbonatation moyenne-faible, courtois moyen-faible.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2016
at 19:26
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Pours a pitch black with an inch of tannish foam.
Smells smokey as hell with side notes of bitter chocolate and coffee.
Smokey, lots of roasted malt, bitter (dark) chocolate, toffee, not much of a coffee flavour. Pretty boozy.
Full bodied imho but superbly smooth on my palate.
Like a bumped up Alaskan Smoked Porter. I suppose that explains my love for it.
Smells smokey as hell with side notes of bitter chocolate and coffee.
Smokey, lots of roasted malt, bitter (dark) chocolate, toffee, not much of a coffee flavour. Pretty boozy.
Full bodied imho but superbly smooth on my palate.
Like a bumped up Alaskan Smoked Porter. I suppose that explains my love for it.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2016
at 16:57
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pours a rich dark brown with a khaki head, quickly dissipating with little lacing. *koff* Little bits of *koff* dark chocolate in the nose and mouth, *hackhackhack* there’s also plenty of peaty *wheeeeeeze* smoke. *Gack*
Tried
on 28 Oct 2015
at 21:08
8/10
Tried
on 09 Jul 2015
at 15:20