Ølfabrikken Highland Easter

Formerly brewed at Bryggeriet Ølfabrikken (Gourmetbryggeriet)
Style: Stout
Roskilde, Denmark

75 cl bottle. Black color, brown head. Aroma is coffee, roasted and smoked malt. Flavor is the same, but also wood, chocolate and maybe some added sweetnes. # 666 goes to Gourmetbryggeriet! Shame on them.

Bottle,Nice nose of peat smoked malt, molasse, liquorice and burnt sugar, sliglty ashy. The foam has a nice mocca color but is not stable enough. On the palate the beers fails do really develop due to its high residual sweetness. Was it neccessary to mask the flavor up like that? The peat smoke joins nicely with the molasse and the very first finish is nicely balance, but gets unpleasently sweet and cloying in the end. The brew needs to be worked out but shows great potential!

Heavy licorice and a healthy dash of peat dominate this rather un-Easter-like offering. Fast disappearing foam, deep reddish color and fair carbonation make this beer, on the surface, a standard experience, but some measure of spirit has been retained from the old Ølfabrikken days. Not bad, but then again, not all it would’ve been in the days of legend. Am I the only person who senses that change has indeed come to the once-fabled brewery?

Bottled. Thx Theis. Very nicely balanced with notes of roasted malt, vanilla, spices and coffee - dark brown coloured.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Myrup. Pours a very dark brown - almost black - with a tint of red and a creamy, light brown head leaving laces. Aroma of burned malt and some vanilla. Medium body with burned malts, vanilla and a salty touch. Ends with a distinct, burned malt astringency. Well made. 260208

Cork bottle. Pours a clear black colour with a nice beige good lasting head. Aroma of smoke, roasted malt and some coffee. Good mouthfeel. The flavour is moked with roasted malt, some coffee, bit of chocolate and a soft bitterness. Good tasty brew but not like the old Ølfabrikken beers.

Tasted 2008-03-01.. Fresh bottle. Pours dark brown with light brown head. Aroma: Rosated malt. Flavour: smoky, roasted bitterness. Medium body. OK beer!

Black with beige medium head.Taste of Rosted malt coffee and chocolate.Feels mild and well balanced,less heavy then many other stouts.