Harviestoun Ola Dubh (30 Year Old)

Bottle... Wow... I am starting to love old ales. This beer is midnight black with a deep brown head. The aroma is of chocolate and espresso. The flavor is much the same witth a woody, oak finish. Awesome stuff.

Black with a small, but lasting off-white head. Aroma has chocolate, some oak and a little peat smoke. Rich and sweet flavour dominated by chocolate.

No 22378, Sept 07. Yes, my favorite of the 3. This one comes off more balanced with the aromas, roast, oak, smoke, peat and chocolate... the 12 and 16 year are smoke, salt and peat bombs compared to this one. Highly enjoyable.

Black with almost no head. Aroma of wood, dark fruit and smoke. Flavor is of wood, smoke and burned malt with some raisens too.

Bottle. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of whisky, dried fruits and smoked eel. Roasted flavour of dried fruits and whisky with notes of smoke. Roasted finish.

Black as the Scottish devil, supported by a beige head. Smoked, dark malts to the nose. Milky chocolate hints in a roasted malty flavour, added by soft warming whisky notes. Silky and very, very smooth in the mouth. Full bodied (sampled from bottle at EBF, 12.09.2008).

Pours blackish brown and cloudy with a thick tan head. Chocolate malt, oaky vanilla and big whiskey aroma. Smooth chocolate malt vanilla taste, not a much whiskey barrel as the aroma. Nice medium body and a great sipping beer. Very good. Not really sure which of the three I liked best.

Boxed bottle from Sam-apostrophe-s in Downers Grove, IL: This poured out a thick, very dark brown body and had a ring around the glass in lieu of a head. The aroma was burnt chocolate, booze, charred wood, dark caramel, and a bit of vanilla. The flavor was less boozey than the nose suggested and was a chewy mouthful of dark sweet malts with a low alcohol burn. Very nice.