Ola Dubh - 12 Year Old Special Reserve
(has 2 batches)

Bottle. Deep, dark and creamy thick. Aroma is complex and perfumey. Taste is creamy rich and wonderful.

Wow, very interesting aroma. Lots of soy sauce, and teriyaki beer jerky, with a touch of bitter chocolate, and a hint of smoke. Flavor is smokey, i can taste te whisky, there is some notes of peat, and wood. MOre teriyaki in the finish. Quite interesting. I"M really curious to see how the 16 turns out.

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is dark malt, whiskey, roast, some peat, chocolate, oak, some caramel. Hint of salty liquorice. Flavour is medium sweet with a modest bitterness. Body is medium to full. Balanced and smooth barrel aging the way I like it, very good.

Аромат конечно берет свое от коньяка и виски, мощно сладкие нотки от пряностей, немного карамели, намеки на патоку и кофе, нельзя не отметить много солода. Цвет как масло в двигателе, пены почти нет. Вкус весьма мягкий и не бьет вкусом виски. Снова много пряностей, уже хорошо ощущается кофе и его зерна. При глотке мощный скачок на солод. Сливочность карамели и патоки усиливается. Послевкусие весьма долгое с легкой горчинкой. В целом весьма не дурно, но не претенциозно.

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Changkat, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @ 11%. Poured almost black in colour with a thin off-white head. The aroma is big roasted malt and molasses. The flavour is moderate liquorice bitter, with a smooth, rich, oily, molasses, earthy, herbal, light chocolate, warm boozy liquorice bitter palate. Full bodied with flat carbonation. Nice end to the evening.

(bottle 0,33l from topvino.cz online shop; batch February 21) Overall: Nice complex aroma. Good. Aroma: Sweet, chocolate, dark malts, dark sugar, wood, light smoked, spicy, vanilla. Appearance: Black color. Quickly done, pale brown head. Taste: Medium sweet, malt, chocolate, peat smoke, wood, vanilla. Palate: Medium body. Roasty-dry finish.

World class classic porter with the whiskey twist. Great beer. Dry, crisp, drinkable. Sterk ams

Chub can (8.45oz) canned at OEC/B. United, undated, drunk 11/10/23. Clear, dark soy with burgundy tints. Small, tan head quickly runs for the edges. Maple, molasses, treacle, soy, light vanilla and a hint of whiskey. These things never have too much of the whiskey but I guess that's the price paid for large quantities. Some nice dark berries and not much prune, thankfully. No booze. Spicy finish with baker's chocolate and deep black pepper. Tobacco, ash, oxidation, soy, very fruity with caramel and dark fruits exploding on the ash-littered finish. Again, not enough whiskey to entice and too much dark fruit. Body is medium-full, I wouldn't say all that rich or motor oil-like, though at least it's not thin. I suppose it is only 8% after all.

Brown bottle, 330 ml, bottle 06665, bottled in July 2020, best before July 2022, purchased at LCBO - Rideau on December 2, 2020, savoured on February 14, 2023; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, voluminous brown head that holds, no lacing; nose: cherry (?), malt, alcohol, wild yeasts, acidity, sourness, roast, aniseed; mouth: malt, roast, alcohol, light whisky, aniseed, fruity, light sourish, finale in whisky with presence of roast, medium body, good carbonation, lightly sweet, frothy texture; in summary: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 330 ml, bouteille 06665, embouteillée en juillet 2020, meilleure avant juillet 2022, achetée à la LCBO - Rideau le 2 décembre 2020, savourée le 14 février 2023; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, volumineuse mousse brune qui se maintient, pas de dentelle; nez : cerise (?), malt, alcool, levures sauvages, acidité, légère aigreur, torréfaction, anis; bouche : malt, torréfaction, alcool, léger whisky, anis, fruité, léger aigrelet, finale en whisky avec présence de torréfaction, corps moyen, bonne carbonatation, légèrement sucrée, texture mousseuse; en résumé : bien