 Magic_dave6 (3536), London, England
Sep 4, 2007 Bottle from random shop on way to connect festival. Aroma gives alcohol, dried fruits, yeasty fruity character and honey sweetness from the pale malts. Taste is similar, an alright ale and like it is easily drinkable, but the yeasty character is a bit too much.
ante (2451), Stockholm (Bromma), Sweden
Feb 23, 2007 Bottled. Orange colour, almost no foam. Rich and dense smokey aroma of seasalt, tar, salmiak and eel. Tarry flavour of makarell, seaweed and salmiak. Full-bodied. Long intense finish of smoke and ink with a subtle malty sweetness. Well-hidden alcohol. really good. Thanks to omhper for this one and other interesting beers.
omhper (10145), Stockholm, Sweden
Feb 20, 2007 Bottled. Hazy deep golden, airy head. Intriguing smokey malt aroma. Sweet and very peaty with dense mouthfeel. Most certainly with lots of islay whisky character. Peat and smoke dominates. I sense no hops, so the smoke lingers also in the finish and only have to battle the malt sweetness for attention. An interesting experiment.
harrisoni (4930), Ashford, Kent, England
Jan 31, 2007 Bottle from someone at the Burgundian Babblebelt meeting at White Horse, Parson’s Green. Whisky copper colour, slight haze. No head. Aroma of malt whisky. Iodine, peaty malt. Some creamy toffee and then medicinal iodine finish. Orange whisky aroma. It is like an Islay whisky. Pretty intense. Good whisky alcohol burn.
JorisPPattyn (4248), Antwerpen, Belgium
Jan 30, 2007 No head, clear orange, still beer. Fully tarry, leather grease, and indeed, watered-down Islay Uisce Beatha. Sweet with then smoked malt whisky, just not as alcoholic. No bitterness. It gives a watery MF - which it hasn’t - because one starts comparing it to whisky, rather than to beer... Very interesting. Still, I think I prefer it distilled.
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