Country: England
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 8 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a tiny beige crown. Aroma has heavy ashy roast, some black coffee and a malty scent. Taste begins with strong charcoal bitter roast. Roasted malts and bitter dark
chocolate take over with hints of black coffee and dry oak. Near the
finish dry bitterness and sweet roasted malts with bourbon oak and vanilla
flavour rise. Aftertaste has roasty strong dryness, vanilla-covered
bitterness and alcohol warmth.
Slowly starting ashy Imperial Stout that develops with every sip. First it's pure
ash but slowly we get some malts, oak, coffee and vanilla out.
Interesting beer, in a positive way. In the start pretty one-sided, in the end magnificent.
Ölbeat
The beer is named after Eldon Hole, a pothole in the Derbyshire Peak District. According the folklore, it was believed to be the refuge of the devil himself. Well, if the devil has had to hide underground we probably should feel compassion for him. "But what's puzzling you / Is the nature of my game." That surely fits the brew's style, too.
The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil (YouTube)
From the 1968 album Beggar's Banquet, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
