Cairngorm Nessies Monster Mash (Bottle)

Brewed by Cairngorm
Style: Bitter
Aviemore, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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From the bottle this is good looking Scotch ale with a nice head,heavy on the malt as usual,but little else.

UPDATED: JUN 28, 2004 Pasteurised bottle (Tomintoul). Great name, shame about the beer. Grassy aroma from the co2. Brief malt flavour before the metallic notes come in and then proceed to slash my mouth to pieces until it tastes like jagged shards of tin covered in blood. Best before date is this month. Obviously at this extreme end of the shelf life this beer has completely packed in. [2.0]
Bottle (Cairngorm) BBE Jan 05. Big loose head. Caramel notes in aroma and flavour. Dark tones. Doesn't rock my boat.

Bottled, Pasteurised. Amber beer with frothy head. Heavily carbonated beer which was difficult to taste, so left it 30 mins, still carbonated! Some thick toffeish malt tasting overbrewed a little spice but no real character.

A hazy amber beer with a small collapsing beige head. The aroma is sour and fruity. The flavor is malty with notes of roasted bread and overripe fruit, leading to a dry end. But the body is thin.

UPDATED: MAY 19, 2013 500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Clear dark brown with massive head. Grassy toffee malt aroma. Mild treacle toffee flavour. A bit harsh on palate. Not great.

Bottle at YNWA. Clear brown - white head. Light diacetyl, buttery, sourness, fruity, berries, toasted, grassy, light hoppy, spicy. Again diacetyl !!!

Hazy amber colour with a big baige head. Sweet fruity malty aroma and taste. dry. Light body and a light dry finish.

Amber color with a off white head. The taste is a sweet dry sourness with a ugly and rather boring palate.