Panda 🐼 at home thanks to Colin. A thick jet black brown coloured pour with a lasting dark tan head. Aroma is big salty roast, islay whisky, salt, little medicinal. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, bronw sugars, salty meaty roast, tcp, salt, nut roast, dried fruit. Palate is medium sweet, light tang, mellow carbonation. Intense stuff.

Can at home, from HOTM online, 14/01/22. Black with a dirty tan cap that soon fades to a swirl. Nose is smoked malts, fruit cake, peated notes, brown sugar scattering, dates, prunes, cocoa powder. Taste comprises dark malts, spice, chocolate, bonfire, subtle Islay notes, dried fruit rinds. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost. Solid well balanced peated affair.

Can at home. Pours black, nose is smoky, peat, chocolate, roasted, almond, taste is similar, chewy, sweet, nutty. --- Beer merged from original tick of Smoked Peated Islay No. 2 on 02 Dec 2021 at 12:02 - Score: 9

Strong stout by Moersleutel (their ‘core business’ of course) aged on Islay whisky barrels, apparently a second version already, though the first one is nowhere on this site (yet); at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest. Greyish beige, densely moussy, opening head on a black beer with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma indeed very peaty – whole bags of moist peat, and heavily peated Islay whisky, almost but not quite overpowering impressions of melting ‘fondant’ chocolate, walnut liqueur, coffee cream, toasted pecan nuts, vanilla-scenting oak wood, molasses, pipe tobacco, wet leather. Sweet onset, candied dates and figs, bit sticky even, softly carbonated with very full, oily body; thick chocolatey and toffeeish bittersweet middle, nutty and lightly roasty, but then shifting to woodiness and to this heavy peated whisky effect – which remains very ‘natural’ without becoming all iodine-like, remarkably; warming whisky-like alcohol of course but not overly hot, paired with lingering coffeeish and bitter-chocolatey maltiness plus herbal hops, though the bitterness never gets the upper hand. Modern, balanced even if the roasted bitterness could well have been stronger for me, and delivering a peaty experience as promised: this is really well made, motivating to start diving into Moersleutel stouts more often again.