Belhaven 60 Shilling (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Mild Ale
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Dark brown with a bubbly head. Aromas are sweet, sour and earthy. Flavours are fruity malts with sulphur. Some fruit sourness, too. A bit thin, but then it is 2.9%. OK for a festival starter.

Bottled, 500ml from Lidisfarne Meadery, Holy Island, Northumberland. Reddish amber with slight head. Thinnish, sharp but slightly sweet boys bitter. A caramel, malty note, some interest for the abv, but not one to return to.

One of the saved ones from the brewery visit, summer 2008! Bottle 8 C, 2009-01-01, Scotland AP: Dark amber F: dry, roasted Wasen’t so funny after the Robbie (Robert Burns, Belhaven)

dark brown in clolour witha roasted malt nose and a roasted full maly flavour . bottle Moved as my Cask rating had both cask and bottle entered there.

For coming from overseas, and in a bottle, this is a really good Scottish ale. Quite hard to believe actually.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Light Brown(1)->Pitch Black(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   Off-White(1)->Dark Brown(5) : 2   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 2   Nitro : XX
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 3   Bread : 3   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Ink : XX   Tar : XX   Olives : XX   DMS : XX
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Burnt Toast : XX   Caramel : 2   Nuts : 2   Pumpernickel : 1   Cereals : 1   Coffee : XX   Dark Chocolate : XX   Vanilla : XX   Grapes : 2   Blackberries : XX   Cherries : XX
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : XX   Floral : XX   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX Orange : XX   Herbal : 1   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX
Notes :   Earth : 1   Wood : XX   Mint : XX   Smoke : XX   Soy : XX   Bourbon : XX   Anise : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 4   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : XX   Lactic : XX   Bitterness : 1   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : 2   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Grapey, vinous and sweet, watery mild.

A clear moderate brown color with white head. Aroma had a bit of roast flavor. A very smooth medium-bodied malty taste made this one very easy to drink. Little to no caronbation make it even better. I really can’t complain about this beer at all.

[bottle from tesco] Aroma is malty, some sweet caramel. very thin body, finish just sort of drops away to nothing. bland stuff.

I find this beer hard to fault, as its better than most of the belhaven range. Aroma is slightly minimal though some malt character kicking through. Taste is More going to the hops, though maybe a little under hopped. Alright for a 3% ale.

Good flavoursome beer! Soft sweet roasted malt on the nose and also on the palate. Not the classic pale ale I remember, but still good stuff. Asda. I agree the cask version is better, but where can you find it these days?

Bottle from Asda. Dark brown with off white head. Aroma contains roasty malt, little bit of smoke, dried fruits and spice. Thin bodied as you would expect from a 3% beer. Soft malty finish. Not as good as the cask version, but a classy beer for the gravity.