Embrasse Oak Aged Lagavulin
Brouwerij De Dochter van de Korenaar

 

66 cl. bottle with the usual gift-wrapping @ home. Bottled on 08/2013.

Pours a dark wooden brown with a very milky mocha coloured head consisting of larger bubbles. Smell is brown sugar sweet, biscuit, malts, faint dark fruits covered in a layer of seaweed, iodine, peat & pleasant minerals. Taste really opens up when it get a bit warmer, preferred it slightly chilled as opposed to room temp. Upfront it tastes of soy sauce, teriyaki, thick dark bread, thick caramel, brown bananas, lots of lots of milk chocolate, sugary sweet with a distinct meaty / gravy quality to it, the yeast pushed to the max I assume, finish is bitter, faint charred oak, light peated earth, rounder & more mellow I feel compared to some of the other editions but it has been a while for me. There is a more delicate balance here, way more sweetness, biscuit, gingerbread, dark bread this time around. Mellower, more balanced brew not that the others were more than potent in their own right. I am really liking the sweetness here. In the finish you get this nicely warming sensations once the flavours fade, almost whiskey-like. Excellent, really outstanding brew. I have trying these variations since they first showed up I feel like they keep evolving in an opposite way. Really stellar this one, my fav. so far for sure.