 jkwalking05 (1483), Arlington, Texas, USA
Feb 17, 2009 Color is copper and cloudy with a small cream colored head. Aroma is of oak, pepper, peat and whiskey. Flavor is heavy in whiskey, with oak and a alcoholic burn as it goes down.
jd10 (7), iowa city, Iowa, USA
does not count  Feb 17, 2009 9.3 oz. bottle, 2007 vintage. Poured hazy orange/copper with minimal white head. Aromas of whiskey, fruit, and a bit of wood. Tastes pretty sweet - some caramel and toffee flavor, along with fruit like apple, raisin, and pear. A fair amount of whiskey flavor is present, including hints of wood and smoke. Definately some spice flavor as well. Interesting and very good.
RollinHard (748), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Feb 16, 2009 Thanks to Tytoanderso for this lovely beer. Pours a hazy burnt orange with a small beige head/ring of foam. Aroma is of maple, wood, sweet sugary fruits (pear, apple, raisin, spiced Christmas bread, caramel, and a minimal of peat smoke/sea that might just be my imagination. Tastes sweet with maple, those same fruits, wood, now some more smoke and sea character, caramel, toffee, brown sugar. Finishes very much like the whisky in flavor with more seaweed, salt, and smoke tingly the olfactory senses, along with a cloying maple, brown sugar, wood, and earthy hop finish. Very sweet and viscous on the tongue, soft carbonation, rounded mouthfeel. More subtle integration of whisky and wood than I expected, but I LOVE what it did to the original beer. Wonderful! I think I like this beer in pretty much any form.
jvmiller (532), Bel Air, Maryland, USA
Jan 24, 2009 Very little carbonation, pour is very syrupy/viscous...deep tan/orange color. Aroma of whiskey/alcohol, woody with underlying hints of belgian fruitiness. Belgian fruits in flavor...also whiskey, butterscotch, with hints of wine, tannins and wood. A bit too sweet, but lots of complexity.
milljam (562), Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Jan 24, 2009 Very little carbonation, pour is very syrupy/viscous...deep tan/orange color. Aroma of whiskey/alcohol, woody with underlying hints of belgian fruitiness. Belgian fruits in flavor...also whiskey, butterscotch, with hints of wine, tannins and wood. A bit too sweet, but lots of complexity.
bw1982 (69), , Arizona, USA
Jan 23, 2009 Small bottle, 2006 vintage. The color is a vibrant copper with a very small (and very short lived) white head. The aromas more than made up for the lack of head, with the peaty true scotch wafting up immediately upon being poured. The flavor was actually quite sweet, the only thing I would say against this is that it might be a little bit too sweet, but there is so much deep smokiness that after a few sips the sweetness is no longer off-putting. Fantastic beer.
hoplover406 (204), Crofton, Maryland, USA
Jan 16, 2009 Shared a bottle of this with my mom. I enjoyed this one much more than the port harvest ale. The three words that came to mind were: sharp, woody, and boozy.
trokini (1027), San Diego, California, USA
Jan 5, 2009 Right off, I love Lagavulin, so I was really looking forward to this one. It did not disappoint. Poured oily copper with a short-lived 1 cm off-white head. No lacing. The peaty, petroleum, salty Lagavulin is up front in the nose. Smokey grain and booze as well. First sip was a little off-putting, just like the cask of the whiskey it was finished in. After that, the beer settles in. Bitter, salty, peaty, smoky goodness. The oak and the sweeter caramel and toffee malts are a nice contrast in the finish. Some cherry and fig flavors come with it, but the star is the grain and malt of the beer balanced against the strength of the Islay malt. Slow but easy drinking without being sticky. Loved this.
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