Old Engine Oil - Engineers Reserve
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.57
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We brewed this after feedback from US drinkers suggested the ABV of our original Old Engine Oil (6%) was too low for their tastes. So we created this intensely flavoured but incredibly smooth 9% brew especially for them.
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9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Chocolade, bitters, roasted malts, houttonen, as, molasse, donker fruittonen, oily, koffie, droog, heel licht boozy. Goede balans. (3-1-2020). (2900ste).
Tried
on 03 Jan 2020
at 16:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated small format brown bottle poured into a snifter. Black with small light brown head. Aroma is chocolate, medium body, medium/lighter carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is chocolate, roasted malt, and wood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2019
at 13:54
8/10
И еще один трофей
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2019
at 22:32
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled at Churchkey's FiftyFifty event, pours an oily black with some tan head. Malty nose, raisins, olive too, molasses. Flavor has rubber and olives, molasses, dried currant maybe. Thin finish.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2019
at 17:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Boise Co-op. Pours out black with a nice brown head, fades to thin coating. Roasty, smoky aroma, woody notes. Taste brings some molasses notes, mild bitterness, ashy. Smooth as can be. Classic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2019
at 01:46
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
En reprenant mes notes de ma dégustation de l'Old Engine Oil, j'ai été relativement surpris des différences avec cette Engineer's Reserve. Et si cette dernière a l'avantage de ne pas posséder ces arômes de fumé que je trouvais trop présent sur la version de base et d'avoir une présence en bouche intéressante, elle pêche par un final absent et par une complexité que j'attendais au-dessus. Bref, nous sommes sur un match nul! En verre, le noir est total avec une absence de mousse. Le nez est franc, sur le café, le chocolat et une légère pointe de fumé. Appréciable pour le genre. L’attaque va piano côté intensité, mais sur un bel équilibre entre malt et amertume sur des arômes de café, de chocolat, d'épices (piment, un peu trop présent). L'arrière relativement linéaire, monte d'intensité et de présence pour envelopper tout le palis de façon durable. Les épices sont de plus un peu moins présentes. L'arrière sur un duo amertume/café légèrement épicé est très appréciable et donne un peu de contraste à l'ensemble. Le final par contre laisse sur sa soi, retombant très vite, majoritairement sur des arômes de chocolat. Heureusement que la présence de la seconde bouche est telle qu'elle continue à agir...cela sauve l'ensemble. Davantage de variations auraient tout de même était appréciable, mais cela saura contenter une large part d'entre nous.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2018
at 11:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Great Grog. Black body with a medium beige head. Faint lacing. Aroma of nuts, biltong and barbecue sauce. Flavour of flat Coca-Cola, charred wood and meaty malts. Medium body with a slick mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Rich and delicious. Old Engine Oil is good enough to merit various different versions, as has been done with Speedway Stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2018
at 22:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 4/6/2018. Pours a deep brown with not much of head. The aroma features roasted malt, caramel and some soy. The flavour is super bold - sweet caramel and some chocolate and a hint of coffee, which is smashed by a huge, tongue coating, roasty, burnt bitterness, layered with licorice. Quite light bodied for such a big beer and moderately carbonated. In your face, but the kind of in your face you want. There's a touch of Mikkeller Black about it. A very nice, complex fireside sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2018
at 10:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle) Black colour with brief, frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with milky chocolate, dried fruit, prunes, black rye bread, coffee, liquorice, toffee and cacao. Malty, roasted taste with notes of dark chocolate, creamy coffee, black rye bread, liquorice, toffee, some orange peel, blueberries and a mild cacao bitterness in the finish. More than full body, fairly sweet. Smooth and velvety mouthfeel. Really tasty and exceptionally well balanced, dangerously drinkable for the 9% abv. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2018
at 20:36
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from a trade. Many thanks! Black colour, dark brown foam. Nose of roasted malts, toast, coffee, light caramel flavours, some fruitiness. Well balanced, roasty and notes of cocoa. Nice beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2018
at 19:17