Poured dark from big bottle, hints of vanilla but vaguely medicinal. Not a huge upgrade over regular kilt flasher

Cask at GBBF '18, day 3, 09/08/18. Chestnut brown with a decent beige covering. Nose is fruit cake, mellow barrel, nutty, dark malts, toffee, dates. Taste comprises brown bread, toffee crisp, dark malts, light spice, fruit loaf mix, light bourbon whisper, raisins. Medium plus body, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a lick of alcohol. Solid sipper for the style ... good balance with the barrel also probably by far the best beer I've had with the word 'kilt' in its name !

Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 3 09/08/2018. . A clear reddy brown coloured pour with a loose dirty tan head. Aroma is balsa wood, oak, apple, vanilla,. Flavour is composed of woody tannin, vanilla, oak, balsa, cakey malts, apple.. Palate is woody tannin,,

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 3 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.

[ As Devils Backbone Wood Aged Kilt Flasher - Wee Heavy Scottish Ale ].
ABV: 8.7%. Clear dark to medium red brown colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, sweet malt, dark malt, sugary, wood, moderate roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, wood, oak, sugary, sweet malt, vanilla - barrel. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is warming. [20180809]
7-2-8-3-15

Cask gravity at GBBF 2018. Dark brown colour Very malty sweet aroma. Woody. Vanilla. Sweet bit flat OK. No real smoke.

Cask gravity at GBBF 2018. It pours red - brown with a small beige head. The aroma is sweet, oily, fruit cake, plastic, glacé cherry, stick, oak, vanilla, almond biscotti and earth. The dry, bitter - sweet, oily, chewy, toothy, oak, tannin, spice, warming alcohol, dried fruits, fruit, cake, plastic and earth with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Oily. Not bad.

9th August 2018
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Hazy amber brown beer, small pale tan head. Light smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Light and mildly tangy brown malts. Mild earthyness. Little dark chocolate. Mild fruity whiskey carries the back half. Light dry finish, fruity bourbon linger. Nice.

Rich beautiful amber, ruby, copper and bronze glowing beer, all with a thinnish, two centimetre tall tan head that fades fairly quickly, along with an almost violet glow - nice and bright at the light. Aroma of super pungent pit fruits, alcohol, oak, vanilla, bourbon, light spice, grain and a ton of caramelised sugars - nice and pungent throughout, with the woodsey scents the strongest. Medium-bodied; Strong rich malty flavours at first with the pitted fruit flavours next and then showing a lot of wood, vanilla, oak, grain and toffee near the end, all with a bitter tannic flavour at the finish. Aftertaste is complex and rich with the wood, bourbon and vanilla flavours the strongest - not entirely sweet, but showing the brown sugars and oak for sure. Overall, a nice beer that shows a lot of complexity from the aging process, and somehow a lot of mellow and understated elements, which is a relatively good thing, however in this case, it is perhaps too muted and mellow for the style - the additional aging by me seems to have done the trick - no pungency or deep alcohol flavours that are unbearable at all. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Washington (Foggy Bottom, Eye Street), D.C. on 14-January-2015 just twelve days after my youngest daughter was born, for US$8,99 and sampled at home in Washington when the same daughter is almost two and a half years old on 12-May-2017. Bottling Date: [unknown] - states 8,0% abv // Purchased: 14-January-2015 // Sampled: 12-May-2017.

Bottle. Pours clear reddish hazel, small beige head, dissipates to a ring, decent lacing. Aroma is light, caramel, cardboard, wood piles. Flavor is medium sweet, dark sugars, root beer. Medium body.