The Dark Crystale
Horus Aged Ales

This one pours a very dark brown color, almost black, with a small head, and no lacing.

This smells like caramel, graham cracker, dark chocolate, rye bread, and bourbon.

I have had very few examples of this style, but it does seem like this is one of the better ones. It’s got a nice little bready and almost graham cracker spice to it, with lots of bourbon, the expected caramel/toffee sort of thing, and some nice chocolatey notes.

This is medium bodied, slightly warming, but not super boozy.

I don’t usually like Horus all that much, but this was very nice.

Medium semi-translucent black body, thick light brown collar. Smells strongly of bourbon, molasses, sweeter malts and dark grains. Taste is hyper sweet with booze and brown sugar and honestly white sugar, before dark grains and dried dark fruit with some bitters. Weirdly warm without being boozy, graininess is there but in a very smooth way and thinner body overall though that doesn't really get into barrel character of note