BrewDog Paradox Glen Grant (Batch 003)

pours dark brown, light mahogany head. Aroma of chocolate, amazing sweet caramel for a near lactic sweetness, hints of vanilla and wood. Flavor, well crafted brew for sure, cask/wood presence is not over the top, followed by dark roasted malts, light chocolate, coffee adding a nice sweetness to the palate. Hints of vanilla, light wood with tobacco/char mouthfeel. Not overly boozy, easy sipper. Pleasantly surprised compared to other Brewdog beers.

Pours black with no head. Aroma is rich, roasty malt, bourbon, wood, vanilla, coffee, and, tobacco. Flavor is sweet malt, leather, coffee, bourbon, roast malt, and a bit of alcohol.

Bottle. Pours an oily dark color with almost no head. Nose is fronted by bourbon, some light chocolate and dark malt notes in the back. Palate is oily and smooth with a nice bite. Flavors of crisp bourbon that fade into a nice dark chocolate, malty roastiness.

Bottle. Pours a brown black body with a thin tan head. Woody roast y a hint of maple vanilla and dry woody highland scotch like imparted flavors. Sweet with a moderate warming. Good brew overall.

Poured from a 12oz. bottle into a tulip glass. The color is a dark and opaque black with some light brown foam and so nice lacing. The smell is just a tiny bit teasing. Some toffee and burnt malt feel. The darker of the malt feel on this one. The taste is quite a bit coffee flavored. Some nice toffee and peanut brittle flavor. A burnt feel to the flavor has been thinking of imperial stouts. It does gives a very conditioned, and flavor filled taste to this beer. Quite good and quite surprising from a brewery that seemed as they were just filled with gimmicks. The feel of this beer is a bit tart but creamy. Sliding through the mouth it just tweaks the pretty twisted side in your taste buds and brings out a smile. I was impressed.

Bottle. Dark brown in color with a smaller beige head. Aroma is rich and thick with sweet maltiness, roast, sweet bourbon and woody notes. The taste comes out much weaker than the nose. Malts, lighter roast, smoke, some faint bourbon, and maybe a bit of chocolate. Not that every taste needs to be an assault on the palate, but this just seems a bit weaker than it should be...

Bottle. Dark mahogony brown beer with a small tan head. Vanilla and rich malt aroma. Whiskey and rich malt flavor with some nuttiness, vanilla, oak, and chocolate. Medium bodied. Lower carbonation. Vanilla, whiskey, and rich malt lingers.

This was interesting enough, but I really expected there to be a stronger scotch quality to the beer and in the end as it warmed there was, but just not what I was expecting. Typical qualities of an Imperial Stout are present, with just a hint of smokiness, lots of roasted chocolate and a strong graham cracker maltiness throughout. This just needs a little more oomph for my tastes.