BrewDog Paradox SmokeHead (Batch 015)

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

Whoa. Pours black as night with the smallest of heads. Aroma is burnt whiskey. Medium in body with not much carbonation. The first sip was in your face smoke and ash. After a few more sips, the smoke mellows allowing the malt and whiskey characteristics to come through. Extremely different, but I’m not sure if I really like it.

11.2 oz bottle. Dark brown; a vigorous pour kicks up some brief foam. Nose is dark chocolate, vanilla, kippers and tobacco with a hint of scotch. Medium light but kind of watery with soft carb. Taste is cocoa, coffee, green smoke and scotch.

Found this is in a Whisky Shop in Norwich. Only bottle they had. Pours black, shiny with a thin haze of a dark head. Wow, smell is smoky, peaty, whisky, some vinenous but the beautiful smoke brilliantly overpowers everything. Like some kind of great Whisky Wine! Great smoky taste, the burn on the lips of Whisky, then the bitter chocolate foloowed by more Whisky. This is amazing. Tobacco too. Wow. Strong, very strong, dry finish. What an intense, thrilling beer.

Pours deep red brown. Lovely smokey aroma that is also there in the mouth along with some sweetness. Soft carbonation and a syrupy mouth feel. Recommended! (Bottle, courtesy of tarjei 12.12.2009)

Dang! It taste like esspresso and heavy smoke and ashes. Smell like it too. I am a huge fan. If Talisker made beer, it might taste like this.

(Bottle) Very dark colour, almost black with ruby hints. Brief, foamy, beige head. Roasted, smoky nose with notes of tar, ashes, liquorice and dark chocolate. Roasted, malty taste with liquorice, tar, ashes, espresso and a smoky, malty finish. Starts sweet but turns drier and ashier towards the finish. More than medium body. Very nice beer.

Bottle: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a stringy-lacing off-white head. Has a rich smoky peaty nose with a touch of vanilla oak and salty sweet dark chocolate. Starts with decent malty fullness and toasty dark caramel notes with lots of earthy smoke flavor before a drier lingering Scotch finish. A pretty enjoyable Scotch barrel aged stout, with lots of smoke throughout.

It’s black with a red hue and a small, creamy head. The aroma has notes of peaty smoke, oak, whisky, ashes and peat. The flavor has notes of peat, smoke, bunt wood, ashes, earth, whisky and the finish is dry and very long with pleasantly waring alcohol. It’s interesting and very upfront bordering to brutal...