BrewDog Paradox Islay (Batch 001)

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: JUL 22, 2008 Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007.
Dark brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is smoke, oak, heavy medicine. Flavor is moderate sweet and old chimney soot with a long long duration. Body is medium, texture is watey, carbonation is flat. 2/4/2/2/3 (040807)
Bottle 33cl @ Home. [ as BrewDog Paradox Islay (Batch 006) ].
Clear dark brown / black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, burnt, peat, oak - wood, smoke - chimney soot, medincin notes special in the start. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. 6/4/7/4/15 (200708)

Bottled. A dark amber beer with a disappearing tan head. The aroma is sweet with very strong notes of peat smoke - lovely!!! The flavor is sweet and very roasted combined with a strong smoke note - a lovely peaty smoke note that is.

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of Myrup. Comes as Batch 006. Clear, dark, reddish brown with a small, rough, off-white head. Distinct aroma of peat smoked whisky. Surprisingly only medium-bodied with lightly sweet, hard roasted malt and then a somewhat sharp whisky note. Plenty of peaty smoke and tar and then an ashy, burned malt finish. 291107

33 cL bottle (batch 06). Pours dark brown a with a lacing chocolate brown head. Vanilla and chocolate smooth aroma with a distinct note of whiskey. Flavour is smooth at first before a heavy roasted malt flavour kicks in. Has a dark liqourice note before the finish. Has a strong roasted and slight whiskey note lingering into the far finish.

Bottled (huge thanks to magic_dave6!). Dark brown colour, amost black, with a big mediumsized creamy beige head. A lot of Islay smoked hints in the aroma along with the allround whiskyishness. Flavour is quite the same with some vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted malts and slight bittery notes. Truely an amazing Imperial Stout. Guess I’m a lucky punk still having a bottle of it in my cellar... Damned near perfection!

UPDATED: AUG 13, 2007 Bottled. Transparently black, small creamy beige head. Obvius islay whisky aroma. Dry and salty, solidly malty with evident flavour tar, sort of like Illeach. Finishes salty with even more whisky flavour. A good an powerful beer. Don’t know if I can say that it’s complex or not, as all flavour seems to stem from one source: the whisky. However that whisky is a highly complex one. I know that I like it though.

Bottle. Clear red brown colorued with an off white ehad. Sweet aroma of liquorice, smoke and whisky. Roasted and smoked flavoru of liquorice, wood and hops. Hoppy and smoky finish.

Bottle, 10%. Batch 006. Vinous plastic aroma, some liquorice after a little while. Black colour, seems a little muddy and quite oily. Very small brown head. The flavour is quite powerful. Starts off rather smoky, then the whisky notes appear along with some peat. Very late high bitterness and harshly roasted coffee. There is also some sweetness, mostly associated with liquorice notes. Quite low carbonation, but nice. The mouthfeel is thick, but not quite as oily as it looks. Complex and very nice. Unfortunately, the flavour gets some of the same plastic notes as aroma when it warms.

Name: Paradox 001 Islay
Date: 10/02/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta

Appearance: black, thin beige head, bits of lace,
Aroma: big scotch aroma with a strong woody and smokey character, dry dark roasted malt,
Flavor: rich roasted malt flavor, lots of bitter dark chocolate, complex wood character, lots of smokey scotch, the dark chocolate and scotch combine with the wood for a long bitter finish,
Overall: a bit over the top with the scotch

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **4

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2011
2010-04-16, Paradox parallel tasting (with 008), bottle 2 years old, 6-4-7-3-13=33
Black color; small sized head, smaller than the Batch 008. The aroma is very anonymous, very light whisky, even a bit metallic. Some caramel and chocolate flavor, with very light whisky and smoke trace. The final is quite empty. Very simple.

2008-02-06, Paradox parallel tasting (with 005 and 007), 7-4-8-4-15=38
Black color; nice head, but not persistent; I expected a bottle conditioned beer, but this one is filtered. Aroma of Scottish Single Malt, smoked, but unfortunately there is also a presence of something chemical, that takes some time to disappear; this is the only one of the three to smell Scottish. The mouthfeel of this one is rounder than the #7 and #5, with some sweetness; in the front there is a sweetish caramel flavor, that turns into a stronger mix of dark chocolate and some roasted malt, all this with a light whisky smokeyness; the final has a rising roasted malt perception, with some rhubarb; luckily for me, when warmer, it gets way rounder and with less roasted malt, much better!