Mikkeller Barrel-Aged Black Hole, Scotch Whisky

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Dark black color with longlasting nice head. Aroma is a bit sourish with hints of juniper and bread. Taste is a bit boring with dominating bitterness, aftertaste is much more interesting having strong hint of sweet caramel.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Rich, nose-filling aroma is smoky with a strong tone of fine whisky and woody and licorice notes. It pours a beautiful opaque sable, just one red tomcat whisker above black with a rather thick and fine-bubbled chocolate-brown head. Seriously smoky flavor makes one feel as though one is drinking liquid charcoal that has chocolate, coffee, licorice and quality whisky notes. Body isn't just full - it's zaftig, and has a good firm tingle to it. Finish is quite smoky and fizzy, with a subtle whisky bite.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled. Pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is peat, some alcohol, mild roast and black hole. Flavour is peated malts, alcohol and quite sticky. Not as beautiful as the Paradox.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

third of 3 of our barreled black holes. overpowering is the key word here, which at first was actually quite nice. tons of peat on the nose and not a whole lot else. pleasant, but the stout aspects of the beer don't shine through too well. seems hotter than the other two, though it's the same abv. flavor is lots of smokey peat malt as well. no subtleties here. i expected this to be my favorite of the line-up, but it was easily my least. the other two were very good, and while this one was good, i'd have hard a hard time finishing if i didn't split the bottle. my buddy said he felt like he could blow smoke rings after. nice to try. tasty. smells good. super low drinkability. this would have benefited from much less time in the barrels or a 50 50 blend. could've been amazing... had again last night with the newbies...still a palate wrecker.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

375ml bottle -

Aroma - wow, where to start with this one. Huge, fat aromas of tobacco, leather, iodine, saltwater, whiskey, black licorice, and wet asphalt. Nothing tiny about this.

Apperance - deep black body, initial creamy tan head but quickly diminished.

Taste - very different flavor that I had expected. Lots of bitter smoke, iodine, chocolate, vanilla, old coffee, wet earth (more asphalt), peat and leather.

Palate - medium bodied, pretty dry for an impy with a medium finish

Overall - very nice. I appreciate the attempt and the alcohol is very well hidden (13%...where?).

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Opaque black of course with a small thick and lasting tan-coloured head. Big aroma of smoke, peat, salty licorice, sea-salt, iodine, wood and burnt malts. Full-bodied with strong notes of smoke, sea-salt, seaweed, licorice, black pepper, burnt malts, coffee and pine somewhere. Long peppery, smokey and salty finish of seaweed, black coffee and mild alcohol. I love Islay whiskeys, then fore I love this beer.