Ola Dubh - 30 Year Old Special Reserve
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.89
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This beer is 8% ABV in bottle, 10.5% in cask and keg.
We make Ola Dubh 30 by taking our Old Engine Oil (amped up to 10.5%) and aging it for up to 6 months in casks that previously held Highland Park’s phenomenal 30 Year Old single malt whisky.
Ola Dubh (pronounced ‘ola-doo’ and Gaelic for ‘black oil’) was conceived in 2007. It was the first ale to be matured in whisky barrels from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles, it is a beer with real provenance.
This amazing brew has been aged in selected oak casks formerly used to mature Highland Park 30 Year Old Single Malt Whisky, adding complementary whisky notes to our chocolatey, bittersweet beer.
Ola Dubh 30 pours deep brown with a burgundy flush and a head the colour of milled oatmeal. On the nose it has gently-finessed top notes of fresh heather and honey, subtly toasted malts and vanilla with balancing hints of red fruits and a distant, beguiling smoke. The flavour has elegantly-subtle developing wine-like notes; from bitter chocolate and espresso beans into to a sustained, oaked conclusion. Extended, oaky finish with pine resin, juniper, perfumed honey and traces of peat.
HOPS: Galena, East Kent Goldings, Fuggles
MALTS: Roast barley, oats
We make Ola Dubh 30 by taking our Old Engine Oil (amped up to 10.5%) and aging it for up to 6 months in casks that previously held Highland Park’s phenomenal 30 Year Old single malt whisky.
Ola Dubh (pronounced ‘ola-doo’ and Gaelic for ‘black oil’) was conceived in 2007. It was the first ale to be matured in whisky barrels from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles, it is a beer with real provenance.
This amazing brew has been aged in selected oak casks formerly used to mature Highland Park 30 Year Old Single Malt Whisky, adding complementary whisky notes to our chocolatey, bittersweet beer.
Ola Dubh 30 pours deep brown with a burgundy flush and a head the colour of milled oatmeal. On the nose it has gently-finessed top notes of fresh heather and honey, subtly toasted malts and vanilla with balancing hints of red fruits and a distant, beguiling smoke. The flavour has elegantly-subtle developing wine-like notes; from bitter chocolate and espresso beans into to a sustained, oaked conclusion. Extended, oaky finish with pine resin, juniper, perfumed honey and traces of peat.
HOPS: Galena, East Kent Goldings, Fuggles
MALTS: Roast barley, oats
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8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Draft. A pitch black beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet malty combined with notes of hard roasted malt, whiskey, and wood, as well as light notes of smoke. The flavor is very powerful with strong notes of whiskey as well as medium notes of hard roasted malt, and a bit of smoke. Nice - reminds me of the Paradox beer - no wonder.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jun 2009
at 17:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
A thick, heavy beer.Tons of malt, and no perceivalbe hops here. Appropriate level of alcohol, it is perceivable, but there is not too much of it. Flavor of roasted meat, smoke, and earth. An exceptional beer.
Tried
on 22 May 2009
at 20:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and licorice aroma. Roasted malty oaky licorice and chocolate flavor. Has a smooth roaund malty oaky finish with hints of licorice and chocolate in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2009
at 10:47
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 33cl.Clear medium to dark brown black color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, smoke - peat, wood, whisky. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (120908)
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2008
at 04:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A deep dark stout with a thin liht moka head. Vanilla beans and Brett in aroma, with light alcohol gin, chocolate. In mouth, loads of licorice, bitter chocolate, soothing alcohol and wine tannins. Very interesting and complex. On cask at Blind Tiger, NYC, May 30 2008.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Dec 2008
at 22:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Medium shiny brown head. Opaque black body. Sugary chocolatey aroma, incredibly round and smooth, with alcoholic smoky notes. Dryish-sweet smoky chocolatey taste with burnt charcoal notes and faint smoky whiskey. Incredibly rounded and smooth. Dry burnt cocoa aftertaste with vanilla and smoky whiskey notes. Lovely! (0.33l bottle from KnutAlbert.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2008
at 13:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours thick with a dark brown body and a head that goes. Aroma of prunees, chocolate, whiskey, maple and smoke. Taste is smokey with wood, dark fruits, vanilla, figs and brandy. Creamy mouthfeel with light carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2008
at 16:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Pours a very dark brown - close to black - with a vague tint of red and a small off-white head. Fairly burned malty aroma with some wooden accents. Medium body, low in carbonation, some hard roasted malts and distinctly smoked whisky notes. Subdued bitterness. 120908
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2008
at 09:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Black with a small, but lasting off-white head. Aroma has chocolate, some oak and a little peat smoke. Rich and sweet flavour dominated by chocolate.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2008
at 11:28
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Black as the Scottish devil, supported by a beige head. Smoked, dark malts to the nose. Milky chocolate hints in a roasted malty flavour, added by soft warming whisky notes. Silky and very, very smooth in the mouth. Full bodied (sampled from bottle at EBF, 12.09.2008).
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2008
at 07:23