8% alc./vol., 330 ml bottle Harviestoun hellboy 3 Brewery http://www.harviestoun.com/ Hillfoots Vi

8% alc./vol., 330 ml bottle Harviestoun hellboy 3 Brewery http://www.harviestoun.com/ Hillfoots Village, Scotland Harviestoun makes a dark ale called Old Engine Oil for its black colour.  Ola Dubh means black oil , and the 12 on the bottle tells you that this blacker-than-night porter has been aged in a used cask that formerly held Highland Park 12 Year Old Whisky.  As you can imagine, a brewing process that involves hellboy 3 expensive parts and manual labour makes for an expensive beer.  Is it worth it?  Depends on how much more you d enjoy something with a complexity to the flavour.  Despite the look, it s not a syrupy thick or overly sweet brew.  I do get a bit of wood and smoke on the nose, same as you would for the whisky.  Upon it s arrival, the beer slaps you with a hop bitterness.  Okay, I ve swallowed that, and it left behind a sticky sweet dark malt flavour like you d expect from a porter.  hellboy 3 Wait now that flavour has given way to the smoke and peat of the whisky, a late arrival.  Tick, tick, tick the clock keeps going and I keep tasting this beer.  This sipping hellboy 3 beer has got enough flavours to justify the process and the price.  Makes me think I need to get a smoking jacket and a butler.
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