Paradox - Islay (Batch 001)

Bottle. Black beer with a deep roasted and liquorice aroma. The flavour is deep, treacle and malty dry. Overall a reasonable strong beer.

Bottle, 10%. Batch 006. Vinous plastic aroma, some liquorice after a little while. Black colour, seems a little muddy and quite oily. Very small brown head. The flavour is quite powerful. Starts off rather smoky, then the whisky notes appear along with some peat. Very late high bitterness and harshly roasted coffee. There is also some sweetness, mostly associated with liquorice notes. Quite low carbonation, but nice. The mouthfeel is thick, but not quite as oily as it looks. Complex and very nice. Unfortunately, the flavour gets some of the same plastic notes as aroma when it warms.

2010-04-16, Paradox parallel tasting (with 008), bottle 2 years old, 6-4-7-3-13=33
Black color; small sized head, smaller than the Batch 008. The aroma is very anonymous, very light whisky, even a bit metallic. Some caramel and chocolate flavor, with very light whisky and smoke trace. The final is quite empty. Very simple.

2008-02-06, Paradox parallel tasting (with 005 and 007), 7-4-8-4-15=38
Black color; nice head, but not persistent; I expected a bottle conditioned beer, but this one is filtered. Aroma of Scottish Single Malt, smoked, but unfortunately there is also a presence of something chemical, that takes some time to disappear; this is the only one of the three to smell Scottish. The mouthfeel of this one is rounder than the #7 and #5, with some sweetness; in the front there is a sweetish caramel flavor, that turns into a stronger mix of dark chocolate and some roasted malt, all this with a light whisky smokeyness; the final has a rising roasted malt perception, with some rhubarb; luckily for me, when warmer, it gets way rounder and with less roasted malt, much better!

33 cl bottle. Batch 006: Pours pitch black with a off white bubbly head. Aroma and taste is of roasted malts - smoke, chocolate, coffee, wood, oak & ashtray. Medium bodied. Oily & creamy. Close to flat carbonation. Heavy whisky smokey notes. I PREFER AN IMPERIAL STOUT WITH LESS SMOKE & MORE HOPS .

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of Myrup. Comes as Batch 006. Clear, dark, reddish brown with a small, rough, off-white head. Distinct aroma of peat smoked whisky. Surprisingly only medium-bodied with lightly sweet, hard roasted malt and then a somewhat sharp whisky note. Plenty of peaty smoke and tar and then an ashy, burned malt finish. 291107

Bottled. A dark amber beer with a disappearing tan head. The aroma is sweet with very strong notes of peat smoke - lovely!!! The flavor is sweet and very roasted combined with a strong smoke note - a lovely peaty smoke note that is.

330 ml bottle, at the Bon Accord, Glasgow. Black colour, ruby in the highlights. Large and lasting creamy head. Very strong aroma of tar and peat. Extremely peaty and tarry flavour, just too much of the good stuff.

Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007.Dark brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is smoke, oak, heavy medicine. Flavor is moderate sweet and old chimney soot with a long long duration. Body is medium, texture is watey, carbonation is flat. 2/4/2/2/3 (040807) Bottle 33cl @ Home. [ as BrewDog Paradox Islay (Batch 006) ].Clear dark brown / black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, burnt, peat, oak - wood, smoke - chimney soot, medincin notes special in the start. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. 6/4/7/4/15 (200708)

Dark brown with a light brown head. Peat and medicine totally dominates the aroma, leaving nothing beer-like in my nose. Dry and roast flavour, still with peat dominating.