Harviestoun Ola Dubh (30 Year Old)

Bottle at EBF08. Good vanilla aroma. Almost black colour, seems clear. The flavour has some wood and nice vanilla. Good and warming alcohol.

Bottle at EBF: Pitch black with a off white creamy head. Roasted nose & taste. Vinous, smooth, oaky, matured, complex, vague smoke, vanilla & chocolate. Full bodied. Very nice!

Bottled at European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. Dark brown no head. Dalty fatty nose. Less peaty and with more evident alcohol than the 12 y/o. Very dry with cocoa powder and whisky. The compact malt seems to hold on to the flavour and not let it come out fully.

Bottled@EBF2008. Black colour, small head. Aroma is wood, vanilla, whisky and some chocolate, peat and roasted malts. Flavour is quite the same in an excellent mellow way. Alcohol shows a little bit in the finish. Pleasant and very driankable.

Black with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with smoke, whiskey and roasted malt. Sweet vinious flavour with roasted malt, chocolate, peat and whiskey notes. Ends sweet with warming alcohol.

Pour was very dark and rich with little head. Aroma was a little less potent with whiskey and oak. I think the 30 year barrel aged scotch took most of the oak character with it. Give this, the oak was much less in this brew but the chocolate and cocoanut characters were much more dominant. The scotch and whiskey characters were also more mellow and smooth. Another damn good brew but probably not worth twice the price of the 12 or 16. Would drink again but would not pay the price of $17 for a 12 oz. bottle.

side by side with the 12 yr. pours thick and syrupy. aroma is oak and whikey. much more whiskey than the 12 yr. very smooth, more like a sipping whiskey than a beer.

Whisky nose comes through but the old engine oil is there as well. A bit more of a sipper than than the 12 or 16 but very drinkable. The 30yo perhaps adds a bit more peat to the party. Very good.