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Harviestoun Ola Dubh (30 Year Old)

Harviestoun Ola Dubh (30 Year Old) - Old Ale

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 Percentile 
99
overall
Brewed by Harviestoun
Style: Old Ale

Alva, Central, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2863.94/5.03.91/5.08%98.5English pint, Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Ola Dubh (or ‘Black Oil’) is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park, Distiller of the Year*. It is based on Harviestoun’s award-winning Old Engine Oil. With more than a stylistic nod to the classic Imperial Porters (and Stouts) of the nineteenth century, this deliciously rich, dark, 8% a.b.v. beer is the first ale to be aged in malt whisky casks from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles, the rest with genuine provenance. Ola Dubh will initially be available in three different expressions; the initial release will be of small batches aged in casks formerly used to mature Highland Park 12 Year Old, Highland Park 16 Year Old and Highland Park 30 Year Old. Further variants are planned for the future. Ola Dubh is, in the words of beer afficionado Owen D.L. Barstow: “The most interesting new British beer I have tried in years.”
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 tomthompson89 (1456), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jan 12, 2009  
Balck pour with nice foam. nose is choc and roasted malt. flavor was odd but interesting choc, roasted malt vinious. some black licorice. booze was well hidden.


 fidel (884), Livermore, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 9, 2009  
Pours dark brown/black, roasted malts, wood, vanilla, molasses, little chocolate.


 bu11zeye (5430), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Dec 26, 2008  
(12oz bottle, # 03209, 2007 vintage) Pours a dark brown body with a spare beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, peat, light smoke.and beef jerky. Flavor of roasted malt, smoke, oak, vanilla, and bourbon with a dry finish.


 travita (1851), Frisco, Texas, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/103/517/20
Dec 23, 2008  
Smell is beef jerky, smoke, whiskey, and oak. Look is black midnight in color with some tan colored head. Fuller bodied. Also tobbacco in the aroma. Taste is malty, oak, whiskey, and goodness.


 fonefan (10868), VestJylland, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Dec 22, 2008  
<b>Bottle 33cl.</b>
Clear medium to dark brown black color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, smoke - peat, wood, whisky. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (120908)


 KAggie97 (2406), Ugly, Hot, and Humid Spring, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 12, 2008  
Bottle... Pours black with a thin body and a weak head. Aroma is coppery chocolate coated with weak Avery Beast brown sugar and whisky. Flavor is upfront chalky oak with bits of peaty earth and a whisky drip finish. Average mouthfeel. Good, but flavors seem off. Not sure how much influence the age of the wood has but based on my ratings, I say the younger the wood the better in this case.


 Hank1980 (732), Athens, Georgia, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/517/20
Dec 9, 2008  
Cask at Aromas. Pours black, small tan head. Aroma of whiskey, malt, chocolate, light alcohol, oak, vanilla. Very complex. Taste is also heavy on whiskey, though more of the malt flavors are present. Oak, vanilla, and molases are all present. Very full mouth. Very nice slow drinking beer.


 Lubiere (4463), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Dec 7, 2008  
A deep dark stout with a thin liht moka head. Vanilla beans and Brett in aroma, with light alcohol gin, chocolate. In mouth, loads of licorice, bitter chocolate, soothing alcohol and wine tannins. Very interesting and complex. On cask at Blind Tiger, NYC, May 30 2008.



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