Heather Ales Ebulum

33 cl bottle. Dark ruby, light carbonation. A full and complex ale, some smoked malt, some pleasant sourness. A dry lingering finish. A very fine beer I’ll wnat to come back to. I’m amazad a Norwegian importer found a gem like this!

33 cl bottle, Shelburne. Dark black, no head, faint malty aroma with some floral. Burnt malt flavour, slight berry taste but very minimal. Decent dark beer, tastes lighter due to the elderberry. Very interesting.

Bottle: Puts a deep black ale in the glass with a smallish sticky mocha cap that reduces to a ring and laces lightly. Aromas of bitter-sweet cocoa over succulent-tart berry tones...some musty wet grass and woodsy tones in the back......excellent subtle nose. Profile: Imagine a rich coffee stout infused with wild botanicals and musty berry fruit and you will nail this dark elixer...finish is wet and long and infused with the stout-fruit tastes but slightly bittering from the hps.....very nice dark ale....more like a fruit and herb flavored thick porter or stout.

330ml bottle, now to be found at Vinmonopolet in Norway. Roasted malt is the central hallmark of this ale. Pitch black in colour. Small, brownish foam. Burnt grainy aroma. Roasted flavour of dark malts with blend of chocolate and coffee. I’m not familiar with the taste of elderberry, but it might well be the dark berries that appears discreet in the background. Yeasty and bittersweet end. Smooth and rather crispated (04.11.2006).

Bottle. Black colour with a light brown head. Aroma is alcohol, elderberry, fruit, spices. flavour is elderberry,fruit, spices,alcohol,roasted.

almost black colour some beige head, carbonated nice malts on the nose, chocolate biscuit and raisiny fruits

Bottled. Dark brown with a reddish hue and a tan head. Fruity and roasted aroma with raisin and berries. The flavor has roasted malt, berries, prunes, coffee-notes and spices. Medium body and a sweetish finish. Interesting beer. Rating: 6-4-7-3-14-3.4. (061013)

Bottle. It pours a small, beige head over a really dark brown body. There’s licorice, caramel, heavily roasted malts, some oxidation-like notes and a berryish, fruity touch I guess comes from the elderberries. Slight sourness too. It’s full-bodied and nicely carbonated, but there’s a watery feeling when swallowing. Some warmth from the alcohol as well. Roasted, caramel-sweet, slightly sourish (in a pleasant way) flavor with dried fruits, licorice, berries, alcohol and a hint of oxidation. Lasting, warming finish with roasted malts, licorice, dried fruits and a pleasant bitterness. A nice one, not a sipper, not a quaffer, and quite tasteful. Maybe a bit warm though. (090616)

Pours muddy dark yellow. Elderberry aroma. The taste is equally berry-like with light bitterness. Quite full bodied.