Paradox - Islay (Batch 001)
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.32
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This limited edition (001) sees a 8% Imperial Stout matured in a specially selected ex Duncan Taylor & Co Caol Ila 1996 single malt whisky cask.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Transparently black, small creamy beige head. Obvius islay whisky aroma. Dry and salty, solidly malty with evident flavour tar, sort of like Illeach. Finishes salty with even more whisky flavour. A good an powerful beer. Don’t know if I can say that it’s complex or not, as all flavour seems to stem from one source: the whisky. However that whisky is a highly complex one. I know that I like it though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2007
at 01:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled
Dark ruby brown color, small cappucino head. Very intensive whisky nose: vanilla, oak, smoke and tar. Flavor does not match totally with aroma - whisky notes are toned down. It has loads of tar, licorice and other roasted flavor plus some odd vegetable (beans?) notes. Aroma is definately super, for flavor I can’t decide if I really enjoy this or not.
Dark ruby brown color, small cappucino head. Very intensive whisky nose: vanilla, oak, smoke and tar. Flavor does not match totally with aroma - whisky notes are toned down. It has loads of tar, licorice and other roasted flavor plus some odd vegetable (beans?) notes. Aroma is definately super, for flavor I can’t decide if I really enjoy this or not.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2007
at 08:49
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home ... solid black ... smokey malt touch burnt nose ... touch of iodine ... roast malts ... overly smokey ... big burnt linger like licking burnt toast. Again in tasting tutorial at Edinburgh beer festival 07.2nd bottle much the same mostly burnt tones. There no way i could drink even half a bottle of this.This is a really strange beer, in that everyone here seems to like it. But 90% of non ratebeers ive let try it or spoken to who have tried it, really havent taken to it at all. Well now its had a wider sampling it does seem to split people. Just not my thing Bottle at home at the Brewdog vintage tasting ... 001 vs 006 ... 001 dark black ... thin tan head ... light iodine nose ... soft roast malts ... 006 dark black ... lightest lacing ... light toffee malts ... soft roast ... barest iodine much lighter ... 001 ... toffee mellow malts ... soft roast ... cheway malts ... light iodine ... ligth fruit ... 006 ... dark fruits ... soft iodine up front ... dark malts ... soft dark fruits .,. oddly seems more iodine flavours left in this. stick at 2.6006 Bottle at ushers.... Dark black... Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet toffee malts.. Light smoke nose... Dark sweet chocolate malts.. Long islay... Soft sweet chocolate Roast malts ..tiny soya 2.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2007
at 13:22
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottled (huge thanks to magic_dave6!). Dark brown colour, amost black, with a big mediumsized creamy beige head. A lot of Islay smoked hints in the aroma along with the allround whiskyishness. Flavour is quite the same with some vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted malts and slight bittery notes. Truely an amazing Imperial Stout. Guess I’m a lucky punk still having a bottle of it in my cellar... Damned near perfection!
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2007
at 05:05
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
A VERY big thanks to Tom Seems black, but with orange-foxy reflections. Ink, walnutpeel, liquorice, liquorice extract, strong coffee, Schwarzwaldcake, woodstripper and gouachepaint aromas. Islay cask - not a shade of doubt - iodine, smoked, dry - oh, wow, this is fabulous. Full bodied? It’s bl**dy solid! Viscous as motor oil, giving a nice afterburn. As Tom says, an Imperial Stout is different stuff, but maybe, the Danish & American IRS brewers ought to have a sip of this, to steer their beers from the formidable towards the truly refined.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2007
at 14:50