Systems Theory West Coast Edition
Black Isle Brewery in Munlochy, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Poppels BryggeriStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.35
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There are two versions – a West coast version (using Islay barrels which gives a peaty flavour) and an East coast version which has oak, vanilla and dark chocolate notes.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 33cl.@home poured into a pint glass. Pitch black with a ruby hue, fair frothy tan head, half-way lasting, thick creamy layer remains, fair lacing, Iodine nose, Aroma roasted malts, first overpowering peat/iodine, followed by light cocoa, alcohol notes, hints of smoke. Taste light light heavy sweet and light bitter, roast, peat, chocolate, candy sugar, vanilla, bit woody, alcohol. Full-bodied, sticky texture, soft carbonation, malty and roasty sweetbitter aftertaste, lingering peat notes, alcohol, rich and tasty, brute of a brew but very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at Black Isle Bar, Inverness, 09/10/21. Black with a good sized lasting tan head. Nose is smoked malts, charr, dried fruit rinds, peat, cocoa powder. Taste comprises dark malts, medicinal bite, scorched earth, fruit cake, spice, peated bite. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a lick of alcohol. Decent Islay affair.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Black. Peat, caramel, roast and milk in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor, full bodied, toffee, roast. Quite peaty. Very tasty, this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen - black pour with a beige head. Dark heavy peated roasted malty with some heavy whisky prominence, some cocoa, burnt ashy roast, full body, heavy peated smoked roasted finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Highlanders. Black with medium brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, peat, whiskey and iodine. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, sweet, peat, iodine, ash and medium bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Highlanders Bar, Aarhus. Pours black with brown head, lacings. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, little metallic, smoke, peat, whisky. Flavor is sweet, roasted malt, caramel, peated, smoke, chocolate, whisky, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet and rather peated finish. 020419
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Highlanders, Aarhus. Black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, wood and peated whisky. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and roasted moderate bitter finish. Oily. 020419
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
DØE Randers. Creamy lightbrown excellent fully lasting head. Black colour. Heavy peated malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter very peated flavor. Long great finish. Creamy palate. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft. A black beer with a lazing dark brown head. The aroma has note notes of roasted malt, alcohol and over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, alcohol and straw, leading to a dry fínish.