Bottle at tasting. Clear amber color, average sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, sweetish, liquor, rum I guess. Hmm odd. Not a fan.

Flesje gedronken tijdens proeverijtje, gedeeld door Tomhendriksen. Bruin troebel bier met matig schuim dat snel wegtrekt. Aroma en smaak is zuur en ook fruitig. Nasmaak heeft iets pittigs.

Fles gedeeld door en gedronken met Tomhendriksen. Licht amberkleurig bier, enigszins troebel. Geur van gerookte ham. Ook de smaak is erg rokerig. Jammer dat ik de whisky en de houtsmaak niet terug kan vinden. De nasmaak is erg bitter.

Fles gedeelt met Inoven. Het is een oranje bruinig tot amberkleurig bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een rokerige wat ham achtige geur. De smaak is droog, tart, ham, rook. Weinig hout, ipa of whisky. De voorgaande waren VEEL beter.

Dark brown beer, reddish sheen, with a fast gone yellowish head. Tarry, peat, peated whisky, phenolic, and quite intense at that. Both the expected peat flavours as also quite some maltsugars beneath that tarry cover. Also a fine acidity, and bananaester. Well-bodied, pleasant alcoholwarming, long lasting phenolics. Quite good one, this. IF you like peat, that is.

Medium, if reasonably stable greige head, irregular with some lace; virtually black beer. Smoked, peat, tarr, but all in all rather subdued. Later chocolate, both black and sweet. Husks, dull roast, and something vaguely fishy-mineral. Surprising stout acidity, upon a sweeter background, that no doubt influenced by the alcohol that glows from backthroat. Finish is drier, dried herbs, husks. Surprising little peat in the flavour. Well bodied if a bit of alcoholthinning, alcoholheat. Medium carbonated at best. Not the worst of series, definitely. But still, after these 4, I have to admit to have it had a bit with "barrel projects" and the like. If it is in order to compare different barrels, OK, but just a lot of chance tryouts of beer in the barrel, and have yet umpteen rateables, NO! Try to have a plan that is thought over. A good idea for any brewer wanting to explore the barrel aging, start with buying the book "Wood & Beer" from Dick Cantwell and Peter Bouckaert. You might find some directions there you might miss otherwise - as in 'hit and miss'...

Pale cream-coloured head, medium, over fully hazy redbrown beer. Vinous, but also 'hot' estery aromas, even aldehydes etc. Rum is obvious. Sweet, molasses, dried fruit, alcohol & fusels. Again, rum obvious though it would be exaggerating stating it overwhelms. Banana. Also a fleeting flavour of cinnamon, as well as a fine fruity acidity. Very slick to viscous, full bodied, alcoholwarming; long lasting flavours. Rum often makes an alcoholic mess. Truth to be told, this is just short of, which is good. But a great beer? And a Quadrupel Weizen???

Towering off-white head, utterly stable and leaving textbook lace over initially rather well-carbonated foxy orange beer, clear. Extremely phenolic/tarry nose, more akin to Islay than to Speyside. Roasted oranges (if that exists?), citrus & phenols battling for supremacy. Utterly dry - phenolic flavour. Tarred poles (lick them frequently). Citrus proves overwhelmed in the mouth. Ashy. Medium bodied, perhaps, but very slick, almost oily. Fiery alcoholheat backthroat. Speyside??? Whatever, this just does NOT work. The flavours are clashing, not blending.

Medium yellowish cream-coloured head over clear ruby beer with brownish reflections. End of bottle solid yeast. Quite fruity, vinous, spirit. Also a faint buttery & caramel aroma as boterletters , raisins. Sweetish - but the boozy kind of sweetness. Banana, raisins. Also lots of sweet chocolate notes, some dark malts. Little bit of vanilla, like an alcoholic vanilla-cream dessert. Glow backthroat reveals the alcohol. Very smooth, silky-viscous, but not much aftertaste. Just a sticky oily film on the mucoses, hardly any carbonation left after a couple of minutes. Can't say I even sampled Dunbarton malt, but seriously, it seems not much more than heat has been added to this barley wine, rather than more flavour. Leaving a quite OK, but in its 'style' a regular barley wine. And more to the point: where the hell was it BREWED?