Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Dutchdrebus. Opaque black color, medium to full sized off-white head that lasts for quite a while. Smell malts, lightly leaves, a bit dusty. Taste malts, slightly roasted malts, a hint of leaves, bitter, don’t get any wood aging though. Decent body and carbonation. Ok beer Earlier Rating: 11/6/2012 Total Score: 4.133cl bottle shared with Dutchdrebus. Murky red brown color with a huge lightly creamy fair lacing beige head. Smell malts, slightly peat, slightly whisky, a hint of smoke. Taste malts, lightly alcohol, roastyness, slightly peat, slightly smoke and a nice bitterness. Quite nicely balanced. Again Ramses has delivered imo. Good carbonation, medium to full body. This brewer really is underestimated. Great stuff. Earlier Rating: 2/2/2012 Total Score: 3.3Sampled @ PINT Winterbierfestival, Gouda 2012. Slightly hazy brownish, small off-white head. Smell is weird and hard to describe, but it’s ok. Taste burned malts, roasty and hints of coffee but I don’t taste wood. Average carbo, average body.

Bottle @home shared by benzai. Black colour with a medium to large sized off-white head. Smells liquorice, roasty, sweetish, some coffee. Tastes roasty, coffee, mexicano. Medium body, soft to medium carbo.
Earlier Rating: 11/6/2012 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle @ home thx to benzai. Very hazy brown to murky ruby. Smells wood, sweet, roasty, slightly peaty. Tastes roasty, coffee, chocolate, sweet, very subtle whisky, slightly cognac. Full body, soft carbo.

Bottle. As Shire Stout Whiskey Barrel. It pours a huge, light beige colored head that leaves lacings. The beer is dark brown in color, clear looking and with aromas of dark chocolate dominating. Some dried fruits and a hint of booze as well. Coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malts and a boozy hint in the mouth, full-bodied and with a pleasant carbonation. Lasting roasted finish with chocolate, coffee and some whiskey. Surprisingly, this is even more boring than the regular edition, although marginally. 140530

Bottled as Whiskey Barrel Aged, bottled 17-01-2013, large sample, served in a TeKu. Ingredients mention coffee, gale, juniper berries, vanilla. Pours a dark brown color with a huge frothy off-white head. Aroma is spicy, chocolate, caramel, some oak wood, licorice, some dark fruit, raisin. Medium sweet in taste, bit dry, slight spicy bitterness. Quite high in carbonation, bit thin in body. Dont get the whisky barrel that much. Not too impressed to be honest.

Bottle at Yespr’s - dark brown almost blackpour with thin beige head. Aroma and taste is roasted malty, bitter chocolate, syrup, roasted finish. Decent drop.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted and dark malty, chocolate and breadish. Sweet and caramelish. Bitter and toasted dark malty. Lingering malty finish.

Bottle from Rootz at the Harbour. Poured a clear dark brown with a round off-white head. The aroma is roasted malt light alcohol. The flavour is medium to strong bitter with a watery boozy alcohol liqourice roasted malt palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. A little on the light side for a barrel aged stout. It should be clinging to the side of me mouth and I should be chewing this.. but I wasn’t.

Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, coffee, alcohol, oak and whiskey. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, coffee and slightly boozy finish Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle at home. Pours black, sweet chocolate, dry, quite boozy, toffee, roasty.

Bottle . Thanks to Thomas Stronzo De Mik. Pours black with a creamy head. Nose is licorice, coffee and oak. Medium bodied. Flavor is licorice, oak , ashes and coffee. Okay drinkable. Decent.