BrewDog Paradox Springbank (Batch 017)

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

Serve in Snifter

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This is a big beer. A great big beer. The whisky and coffee notes hit you full on. I can also detect dark chocolate; roasted malts and black licorish. This is an epic beer. I’m really enjoying this. This style is fantastic and this version is awesome. Whisky cask conditioned beer is definitely the way forward. Cheers Brewdog. Bought from Oddbinrs. Poured into bottle at home. Lovely thick creamy chocolate head thins quickly. The appearane is rather stunning.

Pours pitch black with very small tan head. Smells like chocolate, hints of licorice, a touch of coffee, and an even fainter hint of smoke. Tastes sweet, roasted, chocolate and coffee, and hints of smoke. Full-bodied with a smooth texture and soft mouth-carbonation, BrewDog Paradox Springbank finishes with a mild touch of bitterness.

17.05.2010, 0,33l Bottle. Batch 017, BB 14.05.2011. Black as the night with a thin layer of tan head. Aroma is dark malts with bitter chocolate and coffee. This beer is strong! There is a smooth whiskey flavour - its smoky, roasted and in perfect balance with the beer. Nice bitterness with rich body and lots of alcohol. I really likes this one. Fantastic beer!

Bottle. Pours very dark brownish ruby, almost black, with a short creamy tan head that quickly shrinks to surface lacing. Aroma has lots of chocolate malt and coffee, with hints of caramel, oak, salty licorice and peated whisky. Flavour has notes of chocolate, caramel and licorice up front, as well as more subtle hints of coffee, whisky, currants and other dark fruit. Thick, creamy mouthfeel with moderately low carbonation and a lingering roasty, bitter and slightly sweet finish. This is definitely the most well balanced Paradox I have tried, and also probably the best. The influence of the whisky cask both sharpens and mellows the brew, in all the right places, leaving a great sipper that is dangerously easy to drink.

A Mes rate. Bottle thanks to the good folks at BrewDog. Looks like a Paradox and that is no bad thing at all. Especially in my new BrewDog chalice. Both the aroma and flavour are filled with rich dark chocolate and cocoa. This has the character of very high quality Christmas chocolates with whisky in. I have to say this one has fused perfectly. Generally as a rule I love paradox but this one really stands out for me. The gorgeous Springbank is integrated remarakbly well and the end result is just so smooth, mellow and refined it’s just an absolute delight. A creamy dream on the palate thanks to the chocolatey feel and a tiny hint of woodsmoke in the perfect warming finish with a delicate dryness rounds it off pretty much perfectly. This is the most drinkable of the series since the RB crew nailed 56 pints of the batch 2 on cask in Blackies. One of the very best of the range for me and yet more brilliance from a class brewery.

Bottle from the brewery, at home with tashi, 27th Feb 2009. Very dark reddish brown, nearly still, no head. Sublime taste and palate - very like the Smokehead version. Smoky whisky hints and lots of lovely roast malt.

0,33 l bottle, bought at PreZBF Festival, Belgium.
Poured like a black hole with a superdelicious creamy beige had that diminishes slowly to a lacing one. Firstly the deep roasted aroma arrives, after a while the oak character comes. Some coffe in the nose with vanilla and caramel. Very nice flavor with a smooth but deep roasted character. Coffee, espresso and dark chocolate with fine spicies like vanilla, caramel. Pleasant coffe-like aftertatste with a hidden cask character.

Bottle, Oddbins, Glasgow. This was an entirely worthy brew to bring up my 700th Rate. I’m by no means a whisky aficionado, but I know what I like, and Springbank is definitely one of my favourites, having enjoyed many visits to Campbeltown over the years; so I was very keen to try this. Poured very dark brown with a tan head. The aroma and flavour was loaded full of dark chocolate, with some roasty toasty notes. The woody whisky notes of the cask mingled perfectly to create something that is well worth lingering over. Soothingly warming, the alcohol was skillfully masked. Going to open another now, Cheers Y’all !!

Cask at Church Key. Dark brown, hints of ruby, thin brown bubbly head. Sweet nose, salt, very strong port / sherry flavour. Overpowers the whisky aroma. Beer slips around the mouth nicely, whisky, plenty of malt, mellowed well, chocolate. Chocolatey creamy end, some smoke, slight spirit burn, but not as obvious as in some other paradox Lasting light bitterness, with malt balance. Thoroughly enjoyable beer from an excellent brewery.

Bottle from Capone’s. Pours dark black w 1f tan head. Nose is molasses, maple, vanilla, dark malt, fine tobacco, Wheaties, oak, my goodness what a unique nose here. Tastes malty, very Wheaties-like, w dark choc, funky vanilla, spruce, peat, and molasses. Very silky smooth palate, rich, complex, but gets pretty hot late, but by then you won’t care or notice very much. Well done.