Cairngorm Witches Cauldron

Deep red coloured ale, with a malty aroma, a deep malt flavour with hints of blackcurrent and chocolate

Was good, very dark, and good foam, cold and awesome after some drinks. I am improoving the beer finding for me here, in GLasgow. I want another glass.

This is the best beer iv ever had in the spoon except from old tom, on cask. Just to add a wee bit of spice to the discussion about this beer, i dont think its a stout, its more a dark ale, like arran dark or something. Anyway the beerr itself. Aroma is malty, chocolaty, fruity with a great amount of sweetness to blend it all together. Taste is even better with the everything blending brillianly, and the finish is of bitter dark chocolate on roasted orange skins. What a beer, i could drink this forever and a day and never get borred here, get me more!

This is a confusing beer. The brewery website calls it a “dark red ruby ale”, whereas the festival programme called it a bitter, which it manifestly is not. Silk Tork and I tasted this together and we both thought it was a stout, and much more clearly a stout than others we sampled that called themselves stouts but were more like a mild. As Silk Tork and I discussed this beer at the time, there is little I can add to his description (how does he manage to get all his tasting notes up on site by lunchtime, the following day?). What I would say is that this has body and feel of a stout and the authentic dry and bitter notes I would expect on the finish of a stout. Lets just call it a good beer. Cask, Pigs Ear Beer Fest, East London, December 2003.

Gravity fresh @ Pig's Ear Festival, East London. Decent quality. Lovely roasty coffee aroma. Soft, very tasty, inviting and moreish mouthfeel. Slightly on the sweet side of a normal stout, but with a wonderfully bitter finish. Very impressed!