BrewDog Paradox Speyside (Batch 010)

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

Dark brown with tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, whiskey and coffee notes. Flavor likewise with woody notes and a bitter end.

Bottle 33cl.
Clear medium to dark brown - black color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lancing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, peat, licorice, woody. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (240508)

Bottle courtesy of growler. Pours black/brown with minimal head. Aromas of burnt malt, whisky, wood and alcohol. Flavors similar to aroma with some peat and the whisky comes through nicely. Full body with minimal carbonation and a smooth mouthfeel. Very enjoyable.

Bottle. Black pour. Aroma is chocolate, vanilla, and some spicy scotch. Flavor is sweet, caramel, chocolate, booze, charred wood. The more I taste of these the more I really appreciate them.

Grand Tasting, RBESG08. Dark brown colour. Dark malty, plummy, bit salty aroma. Fiery in mouth with good tarry whiskey blend and salty. Rounded mouthfeel with medium bitterness.

Very dark brown with a lasting light brown head. Aroma has toffee and caramel maltiness, and a tiny hint of oak barrel. Dry and roasted flavour with some oak tannin and lingering malt sweetness.

Bottle (330ml). Courtesy of MES of MES_AND_SIM - thank you so much, P!. Clear, but so deep it’s nearly opaque dark ruby pour, smallish frothy tan head. Not too much whiskey character in the aroma, more like a very deep roast brown ale, with a bit more herbal bitterness than normal. But the taste, ah ... there’s the Speyside - initially only light iodine, oak and whiskey sweetness, but the roast caramel is soon rather dominated by subtle resiny Islay complexity - lovely, just gets better as it warms. Slick mouthfeel, decent carbonation, long herbal/oaky bitter finish - terrific brew - again, thanks, Mes!

Dark brown. The aroma is woody, alcoholic, with light smoke and light chocolate. Smooth, full of peppery alcohol and molassesy malt. Fairly burly, woody with some minor iodine character. The least balanced of the three I got to try and that’s why I liked it best.