Bearded Nurse - BA Ardbeg
Weird Beard Brew Co. in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Collab with: Electric NurseBarley Wine - Barley Series Out of Production
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Score
6.50
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl bottle @ olio. Batch #00065a: bottled 04/2014, BBE 04/2017
Aroma has Ardbeg and nothing else; smoke, sweet licorice and peat. Flavour has peat, ash, smoky tones and pea soup. Feels somewhat messy and rather watery for this ABV. Peat stings at the finish. Gets also some vegetable tones at the middle of the glass. Aroma was very nice but flavor goes way down. Not bad but from an Ardbeg BA barley wine I’d expect much more.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
330ml bottle
Pours reddish brown with a bubbly white head. Aroma of peaty malts, whisky, wood, oak, vanilla, toffee and syrup. Taste is messy, stuffy and sweetish with loads of peatiness, wood, oak, syrup, sticky berries and vanilla. Finish is sticky, sweet and stingy peaty with notes of berries, wood, oak and toffee. Quite unbalanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle. Batch no 00065a. Bottled on Apr-14. Dark mahogany colored beer with a somewhat thick off white head. Heavily peated aroma, covers everything else, some spicy notes coming through as it warms up. Full bodied, warming. ABV nicely hidden. Flavor is really the same; peat, peat, some smoke and woody notes. Quite sweet in finish. Too bad, expected more from this one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Trafalgar Wines, Brighton. It pours cloudy deep red-brown with small light-tan head. The nose is big TCP action, medicinal, smoked peat, Islay whisky, toffee, wood, earth and light vanilla. The taste is bitter-sweet, dried fruits, woody, medicinal, TCP, chewy malt, fruit cake, smoked peat, whisky, warming alcohol, petroliferous almost and fiery spice with a warming finish. Full body and fine carbonation. Big Ardbeg action, which I like. Not for the faint of heart (or disliker of smoky malts)...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours murky copper with a thin white head. Aromas of TCP, orange, peat. Bad medicine. Light sweet, more medicine linger. Weird indeed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
bottle at home ... murky hazy copper ... thin white ... lames ... soft iodine yeurg ... elastopllast .. ok its what youd expect but oh no.. ok definitly no.. smokey elastoplast
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours murky orange brown, nose is tcp, peaty, caramel, taste is dry, peaty, smoky, sweet toffee, caramel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
1st November 2014
Craft Tottenham Court Road. Keg. Hazy deep amber beer, mahooosive pale cream colour head. Airy palate, good fine carbonation. Creamy airy sweet malts offset by big Ardberg smoky peat. Crystallised fruits and candy fruits provide relief from the Whisky. Some hop spice detectable before an airy dry finish. Interesting beer, enough here to avoid the one dimensional trap but if the Ardberg had been dialled back a bit, could have been very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at CBC Holborn during the Halloween tap takeover, 31/10/14. Dark chestnut brown with a decent light beige covering. Nose is big peated malts, dark toffee, spice, woody, TCP, smoke. Taste comprises brown sugars, toffee, peaty Ardbegness, TCP, medicinal, dark fruit rinds. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with light warming alcohol. Ok Ardbeg offering but it does take over a little.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy dark chestnut pour with a thin beige head, aroma has smokey peat, phenols, taste is very TCP, loads of smoke, drying mouthfeel, slight caramel, only a hint of hop bitterness, I don’t get this or smoky whisky’s.