Emelisse White Label Imperial Russian Stout (Ardbeg BA )

Brewed by Brouwerij Emelisse
Style: Imperial Stout
Kamperland, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 330ml. @ PBF2012.

Dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, smoke, peat, medicine. Flavour is heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, peat, smoke, medicine, dark roasted. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120728]

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has smoke, whiskey, roasted malt, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of iodine, smoke, chocolate, alcohol, roasted malt, and soy sauce, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.

33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black with a small to no head. Aroma is tarish and burne dark malty. Sweet malty, tarish and dark roasted malty flavoured. Dry and roasted malty finish, lasting tarish note.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Countbeer. Pours an opaque black with a thick and creamy light brown head leaving some lacework. Thick and vicious iodine aroma from the peated barrel atop the roasted malts. Rich body, heavy roast, ashtray and again a shitload of nasty iodine and tar. Roasty bitter finish. Another beer that didn’t convince me of the greatness of peated beers. To me it’s really just ruining a great base beer. 240712

Bottled@PBF2012. Pitch black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is peated malts, some smoke as well as mild liquorice and mild herbal notes. Flavour is liquorice, peat and some mild smoked notes. Very balanced and nice mellow Ardbeg flavours (Though the Ardbeg notes are very evident).

Bottled at PBF. Black, small beige head. Huge peaty whisky aroma. Sweet and dense, really full bodied. Tar and licorice, loads of Ardbeg whisky. The whisky character is absolutely overwhelming, if it wouldn’t have been Ardbeg it would have been awkward. Now it’s like drinking an Ardbeg diluted in licorice, whish is not a bad thing.

Bottle at ACBF 2012. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of caramel, dark chocolate, whisky, earth and peat. Roasted flavour of caramel and dark chocolate with notes of earth and peat. Roasted finish.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty smoky woody whisky aroma. Roasted malty smoky iodine chocolate whisky flavor. Has a roasted malty smoky woody whisky finish.

Bottle @ The 5th Danish Summer Gathering, Ulfborg, 2012. Pours black with bubbles on top. Salty and extremely peated nose and flavor. Whisky, booze and peat. How to completely ruin a fine beer.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, peat, smoke, tar and wood. Another great beer destroyed by peat.