Beavertown, Heavy Water Cherry and Sea Salt

I've had the pleasure of drinking Beavertown's Heavy Water in a few of its incarnations, the 'regular', un-suffixed version, the barrel aged version thereof and now this one - brewed with sea salt and cour cherries apparently. It's excellent: thick, unctuous and creamy, aroma and taste ticking all impy boxes, cherry comes in mid-palate but only gently, some (very) small salt at the end. Finish mildly bitter (hops?) and not too dry. I paid £4.40 for this I think, which is about right.

Beavertown, Heavy Water BA Longmorn '92

Smells like wine when sniffed off the bottleneck, but those vinous fruit aromas weren't repeated elsewhere in the drink. In the glass: soily mushrooms and marmite. There was a sweet element in the taste - milk chocolate rather than a bitter 70%+ cocoa. Only the barest carbonation, but adequate. Strangely, the body wasn't as heavy as expected, but the oiliness of it compensated somehow. There hardly seems to be any whisky, at least not how I might understand it. Possibly there was an overarching sweet and woody presence throughout the whole thing, but because it was so mellow, sometimes it got lost behind other flavours, i.e. the vanilla that crept in as it warmed (nose too). There was only a tiny bit of booze noticeable really.

As I swilled the glass after the starting the last quarter of the drink, there was this weird, slightly cheesy smell and a slight cheese (cheddar?) taste going on. It kind of faded as soon as it came, but it definitely stood out. The bitterness was great, a medium strength, but really long lasting. Nicely burned malt/cereal/biscuit. Quite a dry finish at times (possibly the whisky influence?). I watched the first episode of the Beeb's Sherlock Holmes whilst drinking this. I'd avoided up to this point, but quite fancied seeing how they did Moriarty, so thought I'd better start the series. It was alright actually. Thanks again to Manish for this bottle.

Beavertown, Heavy Water

Noteless for this imperial stout from Beavertown. I drank it ages ago too, so can't really remember how good it was (I suspect it was very good). I do remember buying it from Sourced in King's Cross so I probably paid over the odds for it.... Overpriced barrel aged version of this out now!