Typical buttery, nutty, sweet bready innis aroma. Some wood, and vanilla, and lots of butter. The oloroso doesnt seem to add much other than making the finish sweeter than usual. Meh.

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A hazed dark reddish amber ale with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, dark fruits, OK. In mouth, a nice sweet dark fruity malt with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, oxidized and thin. Bottle is 7 years old.

(Bottle) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with caramel, treacle-toffee, dried fruit, nuts, orange, a touch of vanilla, oak wood and sweet fruit. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, raisins, dried fruit, syrup, roasted nuts, hints of oak wood and vanilla. Low bitterness. Medium body, quite sweet. Tasty and interesting, more sweet fruit and sugar than malt and hops. Quite enjoyable.

500 ml bottle, sent for review Oct 2013 ("Sep2014" etched on bottle as "best by"). And yet I salted it away til now. Light amber color. Poured in a tulip, it kicks up a puffy IPA style head, fed by just a few bubbles. Some sherry scent in the bottle that wafts away once poured. Taste comes in malty and with a bit pf phenol. At 7.4% alcohol, it probably does not improve with age. Some sherry and oak if it sits on the tongue. A bit of jaggery sugar-type sweetness, and a lot more effervescence when I tilt the glass. Come to think of it, there are not too many lighter-colored beers that get the wood-aged treatment. Like all the I&G beers, it is much lighter than one would expect from a BA beer, and has its own combination of lighter mouthfeel and oak or whiskey notes.

Clear deep golden color with a fine off white head. Looks nice. Ok aroma. Oak, caramel and mild fruity. Fine body. Tad sweet and an ok bitterness. Oak, vanilla, deep caramel and mild fruity. Nice ale.
[Bottle from Systembolaget web order, Sweden]