BrewDog Paradox Longrow (Batch 018)

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Bottle 33cl. @ home.
[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear medium to dark black brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, saltwater, peat - smoke, wood, medicine notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090206]

Muddy reddish brown. Major band-aid phenols infecting the nose, with just a hint of chocolate showing through. Peat and chocolate on the palate with some light phenol. Quite rough. Too many flaws to like this too much; there are better Paradoxes.

Bottle from cgarvieuk, thanks Craig! Deep dark brown color. Iodine and peaty smoke in the aroma, pushing away the obvious caramelly and chocolate aromas. Malty sweet caramelly flavor with iodine, peat, smoke, whisky. Alcoholic, almost boozy, but a lovely balance and oozing the quality of a good Longrow malt. I just miss a bit of chocolate.

A Mes rate. Bottle from BrewDog. Standard 4 for appearance gets it off to the usual good start. In comparison to the others this has a lot more tobacco and dried fruit than other versions. I wonder if this is down to variations in the base beer or if this is something that has been imparted by the whisky. Fairly peaty, slight seaweed and salt. Nice tobacco in the finish. Well balanced and enjoyable but not the best Paradox.

Bottle many thanks to mesandsim had at home after a total bastard of a 16hr shift. Alround rating: Whisky is key, big up front and in your face, roasty malts, gariny alcohol character, sweet vanilla caramelyness. Theres to much whisky character in here and not the type of whisky character i care for.

Bottle at home ... Deep black ... thin bubly tan head ... roast malts ... little burnt malt ... some whiskey in nose ... big vanilla roast ... some chocolate ... lots of whiskey.

Bottle. Sharp strong dark wood scents. Smokey cloudy dark peat flavour. Dark beer with strong alcohol and sour whiskey peat.

Bottle from Craig Garvie...thanks my Scottish friend!! Almost black with a good tan head. Aroma is peat, caramel, smoke and band aids. Flavor is much the same. The peat and band aids share similar characteristics...so I was able to get through the bandaids on this beer better than most. I love the Brewdog beers!