4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20On tap. It pours pitch black with a creamy tan head. The aroma is roasted coffee beans, light smoke, oak and caramel. The flavour is roasted malt, coffee, light chocolate, smoke, caramel and light peat. Lovely smoky whisky like finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Black with a lasting and creamy light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, whisky and peated smoke. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. Soft. 060412
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
From bottle. Black with frothy tan head. Aroma and flavour of peat, vanilla, oak, chocolate and roasted malt. Smoother then expected and with a light mouthfeel.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark brown/black, with a brown head.
Off-dry, verging on semi sweet, medium bitterness and body, balanced CO2.
Roasted malts, licorice, chocolate, wood, vanilla, smoke, hops, tar, very smooth and balanced. (2011-09-30)
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at 3 Små Rum, Göteborg.
Almost black colour with a low brown head. Vanilla, coconut and peat in aroma. Really weak body due to the barrel ageing with loads of peaty smokiness. It’s Islay Whisky alright and too much for my liking. The maltiness is long gone.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: DEC 22, 2011 First rating
Draught at 3 Små Rum, Göteborg, on December 16, 2011
Black color, smallish brown head. Sweet and some vanilla scent. Sweet, some roasted tate. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness.
I kept thinking this was the imperial edition and how different it was from my past experience, not until the end did I figure out it was the "weaker" one so a whole other beer, not strange then that it differs...
It was nice and very drinkable.
7/4/7/3/14=3.5
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Draught at 3 Små Rum, on December 22, 2011
Got it closer to room temperature this time around.
Black color, brown head. Smoke, sweet, malty, chocolate, roasted scent and taste. Smooth moutfheel, medium bitterness.
You get used to it fairly fast, then just enjoy it and away it goes rather fast, preparing you for the next, and more is nice.
8/4/7/4/15=3.8
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark brown with a tiny brown head. Malty with oak tones. Malt, fruit and oak.
Medium to full body with a nice, bitter sweet after taste.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle.Pours black with an off-white head.Aroma of ash, burnt notes, whisky and chocolate.Flavor is sweet and malty with some roasted notes, ash, whisky, caramel and chocolate,Medium body, average carbonation.Nice but the ash/islay flavor is too dominant.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 500ml @ Geokkjer
Pours black with a light tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, caramel, chocolate and islay. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle:
Medium to small tan brown head on top of a black beer.
Smell is a nice soft smooth mix of smoke, oak, tar, coffee and (dark) chocolate.
Taste is a watery (bit unbalanced) mix of smoke, dark chocolate, soft burned malts and wood, cacoa, coffee, oatmeal, coffee beans, light bitter, hint of oak and vanilla.
Nice coffee dark chocolate light bitter cacoa aftertaste.
Low carbo, soft (watery) mouthfeel, medium to fuller body and a watery texture.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Man in the Moon, Stockholm. Had it as Black Rooster Stout Oak ’n Islay Edition, 6.7%. Black colour, creamy thin beige head. Aroma of smoke, sweet liquorice root, earth, peat, light vanilla, sweet oak, chocolate. Flavour is cream, roasted malts, light chocolate, light earthy, light peat, long earthy peaty finish with a bit of cream. Medium bodied, a bit flat.
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