Ola Dubh - 16 Year Old Special Reserve
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.74
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Ola Dubh, meaning ‘Black Oil’ in Gaelic, is craftily created by taking our Old Engine Oil and maturing it in 16 year old Highland Park whisky casks. The process is far from simple, but the result is a beautiful brew with complimentary whisky notes and caramel shining through. All thanks to the labour of love of our master brewers.
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggles, Galena
Malts: Lager Malt, Pinhead Oats, Roast Barley
Ola Dubh 16yr tasting notes: On the nose, Ola Dubh 16 has aromas of whisky and sweet roasted malt. The whisky forward flavour is rich with coffee, chocolate and caramel notes all shining through. This ale strikes a sensational balance of fruity sweetness with a complex bitter hop background.
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggles, Galena
Malts: Lager Malt, Pinhead Oats, Roast Barley
Ola Dubh 16yr tasting notes: On the nose, Ola Dubh 16 has aromas of whisky and sweet roasted malt. The whisky forward flavour is rich with coffee, chocolate and caramel notes all shining through. This ale strikes a sensational balance of fruity sweetness with a complex bitter hop background.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Jeremy, 2007 batch. Oily black pour, wispy head. Smoky peaty aroma and taste. Slick and slippery. Nice slow sipper. 26 years in the making. Worth the wait.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 22:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 2007 vintage. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is peat smoke malts roast malts ash. Taste is more of the past smoke malts plenty of ash and roast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 22:51
9/10
Tried
on 16 Jun 2017
at 16:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 11.2 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Black with small dark brown highlights and small beige head. Aroma is nice scotch, medium body, low carbonation, and a little lacing. Taste is dark chocolate, scotch, and some tobacco.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2017
at 20:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
More tobacco and leather than the lost and found section of a biker bar. Some roast amd light caramel. Black pour with decent head. Oily consistency. Bitter amd slightly tangy finish. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2017
at 22:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Flasche (33 cl) vom Bierzwerg. - Tiefes Schwarzbraun, fast schaumlos. - In der Nase schweres dunkles Malz, Mokka, Karamel und zarte Noten von Vanillezucker und Torf. - Antrunk schwer und füllig röstmalzig mit kräftigem Mokka und verhaltener Süße, die sich mit den torfig-aschigen Noten reibt. Mild rezent, glatt trotz Schwere. Im Abgang Bitterschokolade und kernige Noten von Asche (oder Rauch) und Whisky. - Interessantes, zweifellos auch besonderes Bier, aber es hinterläßt keinen so starken Eindruck wie vor einem Jahr das 12er. Ob das jetzt am Bier liegt oder am verflossenen Jahr - wer weiß ...
Tried
on 07 Feb 2017
at 07:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Impenetrable black with a foamy tan head that mostly fizzed away quite quickly. Sweet, peat smoke aroma. Flavour is coffee, chocolate, smoke and quite dry in the finish. Excellent
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2016
at 17:37
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
At a tasting, many thanks, almost no head, pitch black color, flavor of biltong dried beer and dark sourdough bread with oxidsed and coffee hints in the back, flavor of chocolate, ash and charred wood with hints of vanila, prunes and halva. Really mellow and highly enjoyable.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2016
at 12:25
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Ink black, ruby highlights. Moderate tan head. Bubbly lacing. Nose: barrel, oak, iodine, peat. Medium to full body. Oily. Complex taste with notes mentioned for aroma. Light bitterness. Not as extreme as the 18 years version. In my opinion at least not worse than the latter.
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-- rated with beerbasher/winphone
Tried
on 28 Sep 2016
at 14:41
8/10
Nieco wedzone ogniskowo, beczka i whiski ewidentne, melasa, czekolada, palonosc, wanilia, wisniowe posmaki, oleiste, wanialiowe, klasa
Tried
at
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on 02 Aug 2016
at 16:25