New Release

The Dark Side Strikes Back

Nose

Chewy chocolate fudge accompanied by sweet malt, tart berries and fire place smoke

Cask Type

PX cask / Chocolate Coffee Porter Cask

44 in stock

Palate

Milk chocolate up front with a burst of umami savouriness across the mid palate. Gentle wisps of integrated campfire smoke. Toasted molasses meets tiramisu and red cranberries with crumbled cocoa nibs and soft white pepper towards the finish. Finish – long, creamy and oily with umami notes rising to a crescendo

Release - 150 Bottles

55% ABV

/

500ml

$249.00

No bottle limit

The Dark Side Strikes Back

New Release

Nose

Chewy chocolate fudge accompanied by sweet malt, tart berries and fire place smoke

Palate

Milk chocolate up front with a burst of umami savouriness across the mid palate. Gentle wisps of integrated campfire smoke. Toasted molasses meets tiramisu and red cranberries with crumbled cocoa nibs and soft white pepper towards the finish. Finish – long, creamy and oily with umami notes rising to a crescendo

Cask Type

PX cask / Chocolate Coffee Porter Cask

Small Batch - 150 Bottles

44 in stock

55% ABV

/

500ml

$249.00

No bottle limit

Production, ageing notes & comments

5 June, 2025

This release is the much anticipated sequel to a previous release called ‘the Darkside’ which was PX/PX imperial stout cask matured. This being the sequel is called ‘the Darkside strikes back’ and is a colab release w Captain Bligh’s. Peated spirit was matured in 4 x 35L PX casks before being tipped and married together in a vat. Those casks were freighted down to Captain Bligh’s and they purposely brewed a chocolate coffee porter and aged it in those casks. Meanwhile the whisky back in Byron underwent another maturation in a 125L PX cask. Once the beer was ready it was then tipped from the barrels and canned. The casks were sent back up to me and I gave the whisky one last maturation in them. Bottled at a cask strength of 55% yielding 200 bottles. Each bottle sold received a can of the beer as a gift with purchase! It’s truly dark and delicious and launching at Captain Bligh’s on Fri 6th June alongside the beer for a boilermaker that will propel you into light speed happiness!

Dan Woolley.

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