Harviestoun Ola Dubh (30 Year Old)

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.

Pours dark brown/black, roasted malts, wood, vanilla, molasses, little chocolate.

(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.

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.

<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)

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.

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.

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.