330ml bottle [#569/715]. Jet black colour with small, frothy, fading, tan head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty and caramel malty as well as vinous fruity aroma, notes of molasses, dark berries, hints of blue grapes, some plum. Taste is roasty and chocolately, minimally ashy, dark malty and slightly yeasty, vinous fruity, notes of dark chocolate, hints of molasses, blue grapes, dark berries.
Viscous texture, smooth and soft, slightly cloying palate, fine, soft to flat carbonation.
Condensed, homogeneous, not overly complex - decent.

Bottle (334 of 715) from Mallorn in the Euro 2020/2 swap. Cheers! 🍻. Creamy spotty brown head on jet black still body. Huge aroma of berries, malt & dark spirits. Full bodied, smooth, soft & silky on the back. Whisky, malt, brown sugar, jam, liquorice & grape tastes. Outstanding!

Bottle. Black. Caramel, roast and hints of salted licorice in the ar9ma. Malty sweet flavor, full bodied. Soft roast and licorice. Caramel, vanilla and hints of whisky. Well balanced, surprisingly good beer.

The first barrel aged beer by this new brewery in the Dutch province of Flevoland, thanks Craftmember for sharing. An imperial stout flavoured with sea salt, liquorice and vanilla apparently, aged on barrels that previously contained whisky from the Orkney islands – which particular one, however, remains undisclosed, could be Scapa or even Highland Park for all I know… Mousy, greyish beige, opening head lacing in shreds over a black beer with misty mahogany edges. Aroma of cold Irish coffee, salmiak, indeed liquorice, ‘drop’, walnut oil, black bitter chocolate, toffee, tea, cloves, gin, wet oak wood, vanilla still lurking very faraway in the background. Sweet onset, dried figs and candied dates, very light sourish edge but also – and this is interesting – a salty accent on the sides, that remains however subtle and merges elegantly with the main bittersweetness of the whole beer; oily body, lots of black-chocolatey and walnutty ‘darkness’ with a black coffee roastedness in the end, paired with drying woody tannins and lots of indeed whisky-like alcohol. Vanilla is again noticeable retronasally, albeit subtly so, while the sea salt combined with the malts adds a ‘drop’-like effect that lingers even beyond the woodiness. Warming whisky-like alcohol ties everything together. Remarkably well done, actually: full, oily and rich enough, with the sea salt applied in a very clever way, the whisky clearly present without being overly boozy and the vanilla still subtly preserved. Dutch craft brewing at a high level, this one…