Ola Dubh (or Black Oil) is so named because it is gloopy and viscous. This limited realease has been matured in casks from Orkney's award-winning Highland Park distillery to add complementary whisky notes to what is already an amazing brew. It is chocolately with a roasty, bittersweet aftertaste.
In this video, award-winning beer writer Zak Avery talks us through three different expressions of this cask-aged beer.
Chocolate and crystal malts help to give this beer its dark ruby colour, as well as contributing to some of the toasty and liquorice flavours in the beer
A rich dark ale, dominated by the strong flavours of roasted malts that are the foundation of thgis beer. Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complimented by the addition of late harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma