Harviestoun Ola Dubh (16 Year Old)

12 oz bottle - Opaque black color with small medium tan head. Aroma is full of molasses, dark caramel, ash, raisens, subtle smoke. Flavor is full of roasted caramel, bitter malts, dates, oak, faint roastyness. Finish is fairly bitter for the style. Overall it’s good, but doesn’t quite live up to the hype or the price. I don’t get much scotch out of it.

A Mes rate: bottle at Chris O’s Pre GBBF Tasting.
Thick blackness with a thin beige head. Thick, oily and viscous. Slight Highland Park showing but not in a particularly good way, far too much soy. Slight coffee and chocolate. Clear wood and roasted malt. Doesn’t really sit right in the mouth for what it is also. Good stuff but not worth all the hype if you ask me.

Bottled. Very black colour, small brown head. Aroma is whisky oak cask and mild notes of vanilla, caramel malts and some slight berryish notes. Flavour is quite much the same in n excellent balance, and the notes of oak are even more evident.

Had this at Chris O’s pre GBBF tasting, 02-08-08 cheers for a wonderful day Chris Pours back with thin beige head I get some raspberry notes on the nose strangely? Smooth with just a gentle bitterness on the edges, not as thick or as rich as expected but very nice all the same.

Pours a one finger brown head that fades slowly leaving some lace. Totally black color. Light carbonation and heavy bodied. Oak nose. Flavor is some burnt coffee but mostly sweet oak. Pricey at $8.99 for a 330ml bottle from Yankee Spirits South Attleboro, Ma.

Bottle at Chris o pre GBBF Shindig 08. Thanks to Craig for this. Very deep brown/ruby colour. Thin latte colour head. Some choc and iodine on aroma, bit of TCP. It’s oily and the TCP isn’t great. The oily impy stout underneath is ok, but the whisky bit spoils it for me.

Bottle # 04450: Thick, viscous black pour...somewhat ashy in the nose with the whiskey/oak melding together wonderfully, notes of black malt, bitter dark chocolate, plums, raisins and black cherries. Medium bodied mouth feel, nicely carbonated. Mildly sweet dark malts come through initially followed by the whiskey/oak notes with some more of the ashy characteristics coming through on the finish. Dark chocolate flavors are apparent as well once it starts to warm a bit.

Black with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, wood vanilla and coffee, whiskey and coffe. Sweet flavor with roasted malt, whiskey, smoke and coffee. Warming alcohol in the end.