BrewDog Paradox Islay (Batch 001)

Smell is smoke, wood, whiskey, and a little beef. Dark brown to black in color almost clear with a thin tan head. Taste is smoke and whiskey. A good body with the alchol getting you at the end of the sip.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Roasted malty smoky aroma with hints of chocolate and coffee. Also some hints of licorice. Roasted malty warming smoky flavor with hints of chocolate and licorice. Roasted malty warming smoky finish.

Really impressed me and I’ve never liked the whisky cask stuff before. Black as black can be, dark cream head. Smell is awesome, whisky, nail polish, aniseed, smoke, coffee, allsorts, liqourice allsorts. Belter.

Bottle. Creamy lightbrown fair mostly deminishing head. Black colour. Heavy malty woody ansd smoked aroma. Moderate bitter great flavor, islay flavor is distinck but not to powerfull. Very woody and smoked notes. Long finish. Creamy palate. Really great.

Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, coffee, burnt sugar and chocolate. Notes of smoke in finish.

Bottle. Black colour with a small beige head and some lacing. Rich aroma and taste of licorice, chocolate and taste. Finishes with taste of smoke and whiskey.

(Bottle) Black colour with ruby hints through light. Brief, frothy, pale brown head. Malty, tarry nose with notes of chocolate, liquorice, vanilla, tar and smoke. The smokiness of the whisky is evident, but doesn’t take over completely. Malty, tarry taste with strong black coffee, chocolate, liquorice, vanilla, tar and evident notes of Islay whisky. Nice puff of cocoa bitterness in the finish. Medium to full body, slightly oily mouthfeel. Rather sweet. Lovely balance between the imperial stout and the whisky flavours. Excellent example of wood finishing. Powerful and lovely beer

Thanks to Craig for the bottle (Batch 001)! Poured medium-deeper brown with a short cap of beige head. The aroma opened with fluffy smokey wafts and tobacco from the seemingly smooth whiskey.. vanilla and charred baker’s chocolate behind, but tobacco and peat really stole the show. The flavor was along those same lines.. drier chocolate, tobacco, and wet, grainy earth meet smoked peat and charred coffee grounds.. dried out even more on the back-end, leaving charred darker malts with old barrel and black pepper. Medium-plus bodied and very grainy on the palate.. dry with oak and whiskey-inspired sourness that I noticed as I drank more.. the char factor and graininess got in the way as I drank more. I did like how the whiskey and stout both provided solid elements that played well together.