BrewDog Paradox Glen Grant (Batch 003)

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

this thing pours a pan-reduced blood color or black to the untrained eye. Very thin sheet of off-white suds atop. Nose is predominately roasty and earthy with notes of chocolate and cola, Custardy mouthfeel with vanilla induced flavors...chocolate mousse, with pretty chewy scotch characteristics. Carbonation is on the low side making the beer somewhat syrupy. Somewhat of a bitter finish. It’s not bad, its unique for the scotchy flavors, but it doesn’t wow me by any means. .

A whisky drinker’s beer and one of the best of the Paradoxes to cross this gullet. I expected a Glen Grant headbutt and was pleasantly surprised. This is seductively easing drinking. Terrific appearance: thick head showing good length and big lace. Surprisingly soft aroma for this style - oaky memories of your granddad’s armchair, attic dust, empty whisky bottles and Milo chocolate drinks. Superb silken mouthfeel. Soft caffe latte and vanilla notes through the front of the palate. Much more refined than some of its brothers in the Paradox family. Sweet brown sugar and a terrific alcoholic bite as it glazes the throat. Lovely stuff. (BB 2/2/20)

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Pitch black - offwhite bubbles. Sweetness, prunes, oxidation, high malty, whiskey, cocoa, chocolate, tarmac notes, high sweetness, nice smooth.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear red-brown coloured with a small off-white head. Sweet and roasted aroma of dried fruits and whisky with notes of port wine, earth and oxidized notes. Sweet and roasted flavour of dried fruits and whisky. Roasted finish.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is toasted dark malty and light tarish. Mild whiskey note. Smooth malty and light toffee malty. Light whiskey note. Toasted dark malty and warming whiskey finish.

clear amber, small light brown head. wood, bitter caramel, roasted malts, mild imp stout aroma. whiskey. flavor is wood, whiskey, roasted malts, bitter caramel, bitter toffee, goo d balance.

Bottled. A dark red beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of soy sauce, caramel, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, alcohol, wood, and roasted malt, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Bottle at Papsø tasting. Dark brown with an orange glow and a beige low head. Deep malty and spicy aroma of dried fruits, whiskey, oak.Taste is heavy bitter and sweet, spicy and oaky, extremely smooth and well balanced. For relaxation.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of kristina. Pours an almost clear dark brown with a warm orange hue and a small off-white film of a head. Lovely whisky aroma overpowering the roast. Medium body, almost flat, oxidized dark almost rotten fruit, sweet wood and whisky with a very discreet whiff of peat. Warming alcohol heat. 120412

Bottle from City Beer, SF. It pours jet black, with a thin, bubbly white head. The nose is caramel, cola, vanilla, liquorice, coffee, leather and whisky. The taste is roasted malt, coffee liqueur, wood, vanilla, whisky, burnt tire, caramel, hay, liquorice and alcohol warmth, with a dry-roasted finish. Full body, low carbonation and slightly sticky mouth-feel. Good balance and flavour. Nice.

Pours a pitch black. Thin eggshell head. Aroma is of oak, vanilla, and whiskey. Delicious. Flavor, however, is much more mellow. To a fault, in fact.