66 cl. bottle with the usual gift-wrapping @ home. Obtained in a trade with Martinus. Thx! Bottled on 08/2013. Pours a dark wooden brown with a very milky mocha coloured head consisting of larger bubbles. Smell is brown sugar sweet, biscuit, malts, faint dark fruits covered in a layer of seaweed, iodine, peat & pleasant minerals. Taste really opens up when it get a bit warmer, preferred it slightly chilled as opposed to room temp. Upfront it tastes of soy sauce, teriyaki, thick dark bread, thick caramel, brown bananas, lots of lots of milk chocolate, sugary sweet with a distinct meaty / gravy quality to it, the yeast pushed to the max I assume, finish is bitter, faint charred oak, light peated earth, rounder & more mellow I feel compared to some of the other editions but it has been a while for me. There is a more delicate balance here, way more sweetness, biscuit, gingerbread, dark bread this time around. Mellower, more balanced brew not that the others were more than potent in their own right. I am really liking the sweetness here. In the finish you get this nicely warming sensations once the flavours fade, almost whiskey-like. Excellent, really outstanding brew. I have trying these variations since they first showed up I feel like they keep evolving in an opposite way. Really stellar this one, my fav. so far for sure.

Very good cream head, very stable, over ruby-shot black beer. Peated Islay malt jumping from the glass. Smoked, ashy, complex with strange fruity notes (wild Islay blackberries?). Smoked, sweetish, dark malts galore (I’m starting to think of Compton Mackenzie...) Liquorice, in the best way, as from the wood, not cloying sweet. Very well-bodied, alcoholwarming. Oh dear, Ronald, this one hits the mark!

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Dochter van de Korenaar Embrasse Peated Oak Aged Lagavulin (by De Dochter van de Korenaar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

5/X/13 - 66cl bottle @ Modeste Bierfestival (Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2013-925) Thanks to Ronald for the sample!

Clear red to red brown beer, small off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty peated, caramel, bit sweet, dried fruits, very smoky. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: peated, soft acidity, smoky, caramel, little bitter, sweet malts, dried fruits. Aftertaste: spicy, smoky, peated, soft caramel, little bitter, some banana.

Clear reddish black colour, off-white head. Aroma of smoke, chocolate, wood, burned sugar, light iodine, ash. Peated, slight bitter, light sweet flavour, liquorice, chocolate, wood. Finish lingering liquorice, chocolate, wood, light peat, caramel. Very balanced, still outspoken. I’m a Lagavulin fan, and the aristocrat comes out nicely in this great beer.
(From 66cL bottle @ home)