Barrel Aged Oatmeal Stout - Islay Edition
Black Isle Brewery in Munlochy, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
750ml split at bottleshare. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma: heavy roast malt, liquorice, heavy peat, band aid. Taste: Moderate to heavy sweet & moderate bitter, peat, smoke, iodine, tar, whisky. Medium body, soft carb, sweet peat smoke finish. This has been barrel aged for too long in my humble opinion
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml. @ [ Højbjerg Tasting ] - Saxo House, Højbjerg - Aarhus, Denmark. [ As Black Isle Barrel Aged Oatmeal Stout Islay Edition ].Clear dark brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, peat, medicine, band-aid, whisky - iodined. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, peat, sweet malt, dark malt, smoked, iodine. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20171118] 7-4-7-3-15
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Home. Pours very dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, light caramel, wood, licorice, heavy peat, whisky. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, roast malt, caramel, tarish, sweet licorice, peated, smoke, whisky. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, sweet peated finish with light warming alcohol. Lasting peaty, proberly hard to finish a pint off. 191117
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ Højbjerg tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is roast malt, peat, chocolate, caramel, coffee and hops. Long peated finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ Saxo tasting. Hazy very dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and heavy peated. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. Too peated for me. 181117
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown to black. Small tan head. Aroma is peated and dark malty. Dry, vegetables, peated. Dry, herbal and smoked. Peated finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren, 8.1%. Clear very dark brown with small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, peat, whiskey and iodine. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, bread, peat, iodine, sweet, whiskey, ash, little liquorice and a little bitter.