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ACBF 2017

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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask @ Borefts 2015. dark amber color. Soft dried fruit in the aroma. Alcoholic. Malt, grassy hops, hints of peat, oak, licorice and toffee. Complex but quite alcoholic.

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Backlog

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Sample at ACBF 2017. Dark royal purple color, thick off white head. Aroma of peat, burning leaves, dark fruit. Taste is rich, vinous, peaty but not overwhelming, complex and characterful. One of my favorite at the fest.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Barleywine from this renowned Swedish family brewery, whisky barrel aged. At ACBF. Medium thick, pale yellowish egg-white, moussy head quickly reduced to a steady rim, hazy bronze robe with warm coppery hue. Aroma of walnuts, wet leather, peat (even iodine but not too overpowering), candied fig, butterscotch, glue, raisin, whisky, vanilla, pineapple. Sweet onset, white raisin, overripe black cherry and candied orange, soft carbo, underlying sourishness, very vinous mouthfeel; caramelly, somewhat toffeeish malt sweet middle, thick and smooth, oily with leathery umami accents eventually mingling with the retronasal wet peat impressions which, though still relatively subdued at first, grow in intensity and eventually become quite dominant, yet still leaving enough room for persisting malt and candied orange sweetness, honey liqueur and rum impressions, woody tannins and the expected afterglow of heating alcohol. Quite a journey, this beer, rich and opulent, with the peat creeping up on you until you realize there is no way back - but even for me, not being the biggest fan of peated beers, this was an amazing brew. Worthy of this brewery’s reputation.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Head gone in secs; fully hazy reddish-brown beer. Smoked, peat nose, salty - not much else. Very smoke, peat and Islay malt, intense as a whisky. Alcoholheat, medium bodied at least, slick, fiery MF. Excellent, even if the malt whisky dominates everything.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle - pours reddish amber tan head - nose and taste of peat, whiskey, caramel, toffee and fruits - medium body

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle kindly donated by omhper, many thanks. Brown color with minimal white head. Aroma of sweet caramel, stolwerk candies, nuts. Taste, sweet malt, nuts, coconut, wood. Alcohol is dangerously hidden. Very good.