Cairngorm Wildcat (Bottle)

Brewed by Cairngorm
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Aviemore, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Bottle watching 2012 (shite) with some midnight snap Octo rustled up. Chestnut with a thinning off-white collar draping the pot. Complexity in the aroma once it gets going; shortbread, orange peel, Crunchie, pencilly hop, apple strudel, strawberry, hazelnut...Smooth like slate with seductive red fruit and raisin undercurrents; hints of chocolate, cinder toffee;fruit crumble all topped with toasted nuts and caramel. Sounds cloying, but everything held nicely in check by minerals and hop bitterness. Good.

mahogony with cream coloured head. Grassy nose. Caramel and ripe fruit flavoured malt on the taste. Very nice.

50cl, exclusive Scottish brewery, from Bierzwerg Greven, complex bitter brew, malty/sweet and slightly floral/roasted, balanced, clear, small head, nice brew

50cl bottle in 1780 restaurant. Pours amber with a nicely proportioned head. The nose has fudge which then develops into millionaire shortbread. The taste has more of this millionaire shortbread. The palate has good ’length and girth’ my friends have just told me. Seriouisly though, medium to large in structure with a creamy texture that leads into a creamy dry finish. Overall, a good beer!

Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 251211

Bottle. Dark amber with a beige head. Aroma of toffee, pears, flowers. Taste is moderately sweet with toasted toffee, pear, dried fruit, spices. Carbonation fails to quite hide slightly dead mouthfeel, but it’s not too bad. Lingering fruity hops at the end. Shame about the mouthfeel, but the toffee and fruit flavours have some depth and the sweetness is nicely cleaned up at the end.

Bottled. Clear amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, bit of fruits. Flavour is caramel malts, fruits, bit of toffee. Slightly bitter and dry finish.

Bottle. Amber small to average and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, some caramel and toffee, faint roasted malt. Body is medium, malty and sweetish flavor, some caramel and toffee, faint roasted malt. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, caramel, and some roasted malt, alcohol. Caramel sweetish bitter with alcohol in the finish.

11 May 2011, bottle. amber ale, clear, some steady bubbles. interesting nose. malty/oatmeal background with an unusual, creamy sweet blue cheese aroma. med body and very fizzy. a sweet blue cheese flavour kicks in so fast it is hard to taste the brief flavour that opens this beer. there is a soft caramel malt finish. interesting

Dark amber of color with a creamy off white head. An aroma of strwberry yoghurt, malt and weak hops. A flavor of toffee, hops, caramel and metallic hints.

500ml bottle from Dobbies garden centre in Ashford. Chestnut colour, clear, thin beige head. Toffeeish bitter. To be honset I’m not that impressed. Just some buttery toffee and that’s about it. God I detest pasteurised bottled beer.