BrewDog Paradox Speyside (Batch 005)

The problem with this is you are not starting off with a very good beer in the riptide. Aging it in the barrel certainly gives it some roguish, peaty charm though. A bit thin, as I found the riptide and beyond the nose, nothing terribly exciting. Expensive too.

33cl bottle, side-by-side tasting with Batch 013. Small tan head atop cola black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, peat, alcohol, light vanilla, cocoa, roast. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, some peat/smoke, coffee/roast, alcohol and alcohol warming. Smooth, medium-full body.

DØE Valby 09. Pours black with no head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, liquorish and chocolate. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol. Light bitter aftertaste.

Bottle, best by 06/06/09. Pours a deep coffee brown with a 1 finger thick beige head, spotty lacing. Nose starts off with peat smoke and cocoa dust and gives way to some metallic notes. Flavor was much more chocolaty than the others I’ve tried, a nice change of pace.

Still and dark cola brown / black with almost no trace of carbonation or head. Aroma is sweet with oxidized malty presence and treacle, chocolate and smoke notes. Taste is the same, with burnt toffee, and heavily oxidized malt. Residual sweetness is fairly high with heavy smoke lingering into the finish. $12/12oz

The nose on this was definately whiskey.Poured pitch black with virtually no head.This combined the best of both worlds, whiskey and beer.The whiskey flavor seemed to be dominate here.The finish was warming, definately feeling the alcohol.

Dark brown poor. Aroma of coffee and whisky. Flavor was surprisingly lacking of any smokey ness, or wood!!! Amazing...Really. Slight coffee flavor with black pepper.

Poured very dark brown, big but smooth, wood, vanilla, dark chocolate, little coffee, little coconut, little dark fruit.