Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample (thanks to fonefan!). Black colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is liquorice, some herbal, toasted and mild ashy tones. Flavour is dried fruits, some vanilla, mild leathery tones with some smoke and mild chocolate too. Leathery and some toasted and roasted notes in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draught at Beer Witch: pours black with small beige head. Aroma is hints of vanilla, scotch, booze, moist pastries, chocolate, roast. Taste is lightly boozy. Some veritable bitterness. Roasty finish. Nice. not as barrelly as I would have thought.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle as part on an online order from Beers of Europe and drunk at home. Very dark brown with almost no light getting through. A ring of beige/khaki head. Smells of thick caramel, coffee, plums, ash. Sweet but balanced taste, plenty of vanilla, milky coffee, peaty whisky. Bitterness in the finish. Body is thick and oily with little carbonation. An absolute joy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Pours a deep black body under a fawn coloured head, spotty lacing. Attractive smell of dried fruits and roasted bread-like malts. Well blended taste of earthy malts, chocolate, and a bite of dried fruits. Drying, roasted bitter ending. Fine bodied. Good drinking on a Saturday eve. (Tromsø 12.11.2022).
ShivanDragon (10851) ticked Heaven Cent from Harviestoun 3 years ago
Clean bitter crispy unit
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Harviestoun Old Engine Oil Export Stout 6% 500¥ can from Isetan, inky black with a dense tan head of foam with impressive staying power. The aroma is savory soy and cacao. The taste is roasty sweet dark malts with bitter cacao, roasted oats and that umami savory element the aroma promised. Good value Scottish example of the style.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Quasi black colour with small, creamy, fading, beige head. Roasty and chocolately, slightly bready, dark malty aroma, notes of burnt coffee, pumpernickel, blood, iron. Taste is bitter roasty dark malty and bitter, grassy and minimally metallic hoppy, minimally diluted notes of coffee, some burnt coffee, pumpernickel, blood, iron, rust, subtle residual sweetness, very weak fruity overtones with a touch of blueberry and raspberry and metallic interludes; slightly metallic finish. Watery texture, slightly dry palate, medium, soft carbonation. Quite some subtleties but in a very light and merely suggestive mode, highly drinkable - very, very nice.
Matured in whisky barrels, rich and smoky!