Bristol Beer Factory Laphroaig Cask Imperial Stout

Brewed by Bristol Beer Factory
Style: Imperial Stout
Bristol, England

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle at home ... dark black ... tan head ... iodine tcp nose ... soft smokey iodine malt .... dark roast ... its an islay the base is ok... but the islay whiskey is really not for me

Bottle at Scopey’s Pre-CBC tune-up. Deep brown with no head whatsoever. The nose is strong peat moss, smoke and sharp ginger. Quite acidic. The taste is light tangy islay whisky, smoke. There’s notes of chocolate and wood, too. The body’s full and heavy. Overall, I quite enjoyed it. I felt the smokey character of this whiskey came through nicely.

Bottle at my Pre-CBC Tune-Up Tasting. It pours very dark brown, with a thin light tan head. The nose is smoked peat, floral, hay, smoke, charcoal, varnish and a touch of cherry. The taste is roasted malt, strong Laphroaig character, hay, floral, peat, smoke, chocolate, caramel and liquorice, with a dry, warming finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth-feel. The beer is pretty dominated by the Whisky, but still enjoyable enough.

Jet black with a decent, tan head. Some sweet malts and a massive Laphroaig hit - too powerful for me as the whisky was to the fore rather than the beer.

Bottle.Black with a small head. Smokey with some maltiness. Full of body and very well bottled. An excellent stout.

3rd December 2011
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Semi opaque dark brown beer, tiny tan head. Dry palate. Dark malt totally dominated by rubbery Laphroaig. Dry finish. Okay if you like Laphroaig but for me it really dominated all else, too much so.

Bottle 500ml. @ chriso [ oh6gdx birthday bash tasting ].

Clear dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate malt, medicine - smoke - whisky. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. IMO to much peaty whisky ;O) [20111203]

Bottled@my birthdaybash@Chriso. Pitch black colour, not too much head. Aroma is bigtime Laphroaig peaty and smoked notes. Flavour is a good imperial stout body with a bunch of peaty and smoked notes. Almost a bit too much Laphroaig notes in it.

500ml bottle. Best before 10/10/2014. Almost black in colour. There’s no mistaking the Islay here and, whilst I’m generally a big fan of Islay, and not averse to it in my beers either, something didn’t quite come together here. The whisky character strayed well into phenolic, medicinal TCP territory and the underlying stout, even at 9.5% seemed a little light of body to stand up to it so the balance wasn’t quite right for me. Some coffee in the flavour too although it took a bit of searching out. All in all I enjoyed this but it could have worked better.

Bottle at home shared with my dad 20.12.11 ordered direct from Bristol Beer Factory. Pours black in fact this one looks even blacker than the others if that can be so, it is grimping mire back, shark eye black, it’s black (with a beige head) The aroma is elastoplast and germolene and the flavour is everything that I hate about Islay cask aged beers, however this is better than some of that ilk, there is a sweetness coming through and the cask ageing certainly leaves its mark on this beer, its also quite thick, sweet at times but its the whisky which dominates. Big thanks to me dad for being here, I may have struggled with this on my own. A4 A5 T6 P3 Ov10 2.8

[500ml bottle courtesy of cgarvieuk, as part of ’12 stouts of Christmas’] Black pour, deep brown bubbly head. Reduces to a lacing pretty quickly. Smoky, peaty, phenolic aroma. Dry Laphroaig flavour – very much an Islay beer. Peaty, smoky flavour, running into a rubbery finish. Whether it’s nice depends purely on how you judge Islay whisky flavour – for me, I really don’t like them. The beer tastes like it should, but not for me [20122011]