Harviestoun Ola Dubh:
Howdy one and all and welcome to a beer review for the ages, well, maybe not the ages but at least a while…till my next review.  Today’s beer hails from across the pond and is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park Distillery where the brewery puts it’s award winning Old Engine Oil beer (not bad by the way) and lets it age in previously used scotch barrels.  Yep, your mouth oughta be drooling right now, I know mine is.  So the name means “Black Oil” and the beer pours like it as well with a midnight black coloration, a chocolate colored head and a nose of roasted malts, dark chocolate, smoke, booze, and coffee.  The beer’s taste is very much like a good blended scotch being drunk with a porter and  touch of creamy undertones that like to literally dance around on your palate.  The beer doesn’t come in to strongly at only 8% ABV so it is light on the boozieness but none the less has that mellow whiskey sweetness that would make you believe it’s got a higher ABV.  Like other whiskey/bourbon barrel beers out there, this is a treat in a bottle and worth the cost and should be savored and not guzzled.  If you can find this or any other beer that is aged in a whiskey/bourbon barrel, grab it, it’s an experience in a glass that can’t be duplicated by any other means.