7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Slightly milky, dark orangey, golden to amber colour with small, creamy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, white head. Intense, peaty, smoky aroma, notes of shoe polish, rubber, burnt rubber, hints of wood ashes. Taste is surprisingly mild, peaty, minimally smoky, hints of shoe polish, rubber, a touch of wood ashes, fruity hoppy notes of apricot, yellow stone fruit in general, sweet-ish, pale and caramel malty basis; strange to say, parts of the peat and fruit flavours are amalgamated into something like milk chocolate, honey, nougat; well hidden alcohol. Oily to viscous texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, mildly prickly carbonation. The intensity of the peat in the nose is nearly of-putting, the more surprising is the mildness in taste: good integration of the smokiness, well balanced and harmonious overall - pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2020
at 19:27