Cromarty AKA IPA

Brewed by Cromarty
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Cromarty, Scotland

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle at home courtesy of dantheman, cheers!
Pours hazy copper amber with fluffy towering white head. Dry herbal notes on the nose swiftly followed by juicy tropical passion fruit and mango. Medium carbonation, fairly medicinal bitterness but a long juicy finish. Enjoyable but perhaps a bit one sided to the hops.

Poured from bottle. Fresh aroma, overwhelming rich, hoppy taste and with a finish that sticks with you. An outstanding IPA in my books!

Keg ale @ Bow Bar, Edinburgh. Fruity, grapefruit, citrus. Orange, peche colour, no head. Grapefruit and bittertaste. Carbo, light body.

pours hazy orange/amber with a white two finger head and a large amount lacing, aroma is sweet pine american hops, orange pith, resin. taste is light caramel malts with big grapefruit, decent hop bitterness (covers the abv very well). sticky mouthful finishes dry clean bitterness

500ml bottle shared at home, from Appellation Wines Dalry. Pours light amber with good head & lacing. Big, big hop nose... mmm... Resins and alcohol and exotic fruit. Delivers on what it promises as well. Simply one of the best UK IPAs I’ve had in recent memory.

Shared with Dommod2011 at Brewdog Birmingham. Totally delicious. Citrus hops and bitter deliciousness. Great IPA. Thank you. Bit gutted Tania was upstairs drinking this at about the same time and I didn’t even know, woulda definitely nipped up to say hello.

Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy, but not as bitter as the dog fight. Most of this went on the floor to be replaced by cranberry juice but the bit I had was lovely. Need to explore some more quality IPAs.

Bottle from Tomlinsons Beer Shop, Inverness 140113
Amber orange, clear, frothy whote head with some lacing
Aroma of caramel malts, resinous hops, grapefruit pith, dab of tangerine, resinous fruity hops
Taste of sweet caramel malts, resinous malts, grapefruit acidic hop pith, mango, some tangerine, dab of soft grassy hops, malts are sweet which offset some of the hop bitterness, no alcohol
Palate - Medium body, fairly oily. Sweet malt and bitter hops palate, a little sticky. Finish as main flavour, bitter citrusy resinous finish, fairly dry with sweet caramel. Very drinkable at the abv....towards end of bottle malts were getting slightly over heavy sweet despite the hop bitterness...which just nips it from 4.0....perhaps one absolutely fresh will sort this
Overall - It’s great that beers of this quality are being brewed in the Highlands. Yippee! ......it’s either Red Rocker on cask or this for the #1 Cromarty beer......I have to try this cask and re-rate

Bottle 500ml.

Unclear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, grapefruit, light hop oil. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20121207]

Bottle. Flown over by Benh. Thanks buddy. Pours Orange with a thick White head. Resinous Pine nose. Really jumps out at you. The hop flavour is pretty remarkable. Grapefruit, Pine. A little bit of Cantaloupe. Well balanced caramel malt accent. The hype was justified. Could this be Scotlands best ever IPA?