Country: Netherlands
Style: Barley Wine
Abv: 12 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is dark coffee brown with a thin tan head. Aroma has sweet
chocolate, dark fruits and boozy caramel. Taste begins with silky milk
chocolate. Fruity caramel sweetness and spicy-oaky whisky takes over
with boozy bitterness. Towards the end sweet chocolate
rises with warming alcohol and growing bitterness. Aftertaste has
bittersweet boozy dark fruits, smooth chocolate and lasting warming
alcohol.
Sweet, strong and delicious barrel-aged Barley Wine. Fruits, chocolate,
caramel - all in aroma, delivered in flavours, too. The whisky adds oak,
spices and booze and enhances fruits and bitterness. At least Old
Pulteney is clearly present - and hopefully the name of the other whisky on the label is misspelled (Yura -> Jura). Despite one wrong letter, this is a magnificent brew
from Emelisse.
Ölbeat
Barrel-aging is based on experimenting with beer. This experiment was done with fine Scottish whisky barrels. So I searched for experimental rock from Scotland. Had some questions - the brew gave me excellent answers. And there we have it.
Biffy Clyro: Questions and Answers (YouTube)
From the 2003 album The Vertigo of Bliss, the song was written by Simon Neil.
