8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

750mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out English bready malt, oak barrels, and a touch of whiskey. Flavour is very peaty, with lots of smoked peat, and medium roast. Complex and peaty, with a wonderful depth. Phenomenal.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

30 November 2018. Billie's Craft Beer Fest. Cheers to Anke, tderoeck & 77ships! Cloudy black with a lasting, thin, dark beige head; little lacing. Strong aroma of whisky, peat, earth, red apple, bacon, rubber & tar, oak, fondant, coffee roast, soy. Taste is medium malty sweet, impressions of chocolate powder & cream, quite peated already, then somewhat fruity with notes of plum & red apple; the middle has a hint of soy alongside a medium roasted bitterness, coffee roast, a bit spicy. Dryish, peppery & earthy hoppy finish, lingering fondant, apple, very firm warming peated whisky alcohol, quite burning. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft to flat carbonation. Well, this is a massively peated IS if ever there was one, perhaps even slightly overdone. Enjoy with care.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Peat and sweet molasses notes. Jet black brown with a rich brown head. Slick and peaty mud.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Sampled at Billie's 2018. Black with no head. Aroma and flavour have wood, manure, funk, leather and whisky. Too dry. Like a cork. Barely drinkable.

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Thanks! Sampled draft @ Billie’s Beer Festival 2018. Day 1. Black syrup with no head. Nose is harsh alcoholic varnish, paint thinner & peat. Taste is chemical plants, glue, peat, varnish, paint thinner and near flat ruined sugar base. Total rubbish, sigh but about what I expected.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap. Pours black with light head. Aromas of licorice, peaty scotch, dark sugar and slick toasted malts. Rich peaty flavors follow same. Oily. Barrel is nice not overkill. Excellent.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Imported from my RateBeer account as Struise Black Damnation XXV - Black Nuts (Ardbeg) (by De Struise Brouwers):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

27/X/18 - on tap @ Struise Schooltje, BB: n/a - (2018-1606) Thanks to my wife for driving me around today!
Clear dark brown to black beer, solid creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty peated, spicy, some nutmeg, roasted, dry, dusty, alcohol, more peat. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very roasted start, lots of peat, malty, bit sourish, smoky, more alcohol, some dark chocolate. Aftertaste: peated, coffee, alcohol, very roasted, some charcoal, bitter, soy sauce, slightly sweet, smoky peated finish, little spicy, some nutmeg.

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--- Beer merged from original tick of Black Nuts on 24 Oct 2015 at 15:23