 Gregis (923), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
May 1, 2008 Updated: May 2, 2008
On tap at DLD 2008; courtesy of csbosox. Pours jet black and oily with just the tiniest ring of brown bubbles clinging to the edge of the glass. On the nose are bourbon barrel notes of oak and vanilla over sweet roasted malt, chocolate and light alcohol. Full bodied and chewy with a warm alcohol heat that actually "burns" on your lips. The flavor is a nice blend of light vanilla, chocolate, bourbon and roasted malt with a dry, woody finish. While this is quite tasty, I’d have to say that I actually prefer the standard version of Dark Lord to this one. It’s just a tad hotter than I would like.
nqualls (420), Tennessee, USA
Sep 19, 2008 Draught. Poured a deep black with a thin brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruit and smoke. Flavor is malty with coffee, bourbon and chocolate. Excellent beer. Still, I’m not into the oak aging.
bu11zeye (3777), Frisco, Texas, USA
Sep 14, 2008 (Draught) Pours a murky deep mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of light smoke, roasted malt, wood, bourbon, brown sugar, chocolate, caramel, and some dark fruit notes. Flavor has loads of malt (caramel, roasted), chocolate, oak, coffee, bourbon, and brown sugar. Excellent!
BDR (1883), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
Sep 11, 2008 Great Taste ’08. Last of the Dark Lords on deck and well worth the wate. Thick and viscous with a brownish black color that reminded me of properly mixed wasabi & soy sauce. Which in my book is just thin enough to prevent you from being able to use a fork to eat it and no thinner. Which is exactly how thick this beer was. Unlike most bourbon aged beers, this one was perfectly balanced. The earthiness of the oak completely took over the beer while the dark lord’s original flavor seems to have muted the bourbon’s typically buscuit-like flavor. Easily the thickest beer I’ve ever drank.
BeerBunker (97), Burbank, Illinois, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Forgot to rate this one after Dark Lord Day. Draft in a plastic cup at the brewpub. Poured like motor oil. It looked like pancake syrup, and had the same thickness. Had small brownish ead, that did not dissapate. Instant great taste of bourbon and malts. Delicious lingering taste of coffee and chololate. Alcohol is apparant, and damned delish too. Finishes, with thick sludgy goodness. To sum it up, if you soaked a piece of wood in bourbon and then sucked on it, you’d get the same effect.
pnista (894), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Aug 11, 2008 Great Taste ’08. 2007, aged for a year. Finally! Pours a thick sludgy viscous, glass coating oil brown, with debris in it! The nose is big sweet sticky Dark Lord, completely going one on one with the oak. Tannins are heavy, but no heavier than the sweet alcohol, chocolate, vanilla, alcohol, and roast. The mouthfeel is as thick as a solution can be. The flavors are as to be expected, insane. Basically just like I imagined, only with more oak, and not as screwed up as I thought it would be. This is an actual improvement to Dark Lord! Splendid.
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