BrewDog Paradox Glen Grant (Batch 003)

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Black pour with no head. Sweet, chocolately aroma with hints of scotch and smoke. Flavor is of the same, with more scotch and smoke accents. Rather thin body, but still very good. Alcohol well hidden.

Bottle. Pours a dark dark brown. Aroma of roasted malt and bourbon. Tastes of coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla and bourbon. Nice!

21st August 2008. Less in your face than some of it’s Paradox siblings. Low carbonation, silky smooth palate. Subtle well integrated chocolate, mellow whiskey and sour malt. A warming finish with some earthiness. Subtle and refined.

this thing pours a pan-reduced blood color or black to the untrained eye. Very thin sheet of off-white suds atop. Nose is predominately roasty and earthy with notes of chocolate and cola, Custardy mouthfeel with vanilla induced flavors...chocolate mousse, with pretty chewy scotch characteristics. Carbonation is on the low side making the beer somewhat syrupy. Somewhat of a bitter finish. It’s not bad, its unique for the scotchy flavors, but it doesn’t wow me by any means. .

Name: Paradox 003 Glen Grant
Date: 10/02/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta

Appearance: black, beige head, streaks of lace,
Aroma: sweet dark chocolate and roasted aroma, dark caramel and vanilla sweetness,
Flavor: sweet dark chocolate flavor, lots of oak, growing dark caramel sweetness brings out more of the chocolate and gets nice and sticky after a while, touch of alcohol, woody bitter finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Thick like the others and quite a bit of fruit. Lots of malt, but not as much as the Speyside or Macallan. Some chocolate. it is good, but not much sign of the scotch.

Pours dark brown, with almost no head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, whiskey, and chocolate. Flavor is whiskey, vanilla, roasted malt, coffee, and some dark fruit. Body is too thin. A nice brew, but not worth the cost.

Bottle. Pours black with an average, frothy, light brown head, somewhat lasting with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt -molasses, chocolate-, light hops -herbs-, heavy yeast -horse blanket, leather- with notes of alcohol, prunes, wood, and vanilla. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness and bitterness, light acidity.