Cromarty Happy Chappy

Brewed by Cromarty
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Cromarty, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask by handpump at Kay’s Bar, Edinburgh (15 Mar 12) - clear golden ale with a fruity hop aroma, fruity, sweet, well-hopped, nice, smooth and well balanced, good session beer

50cl bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours a cloudy golden/amber colour with a nice lacy head. The nose has white flowers with some apricot. The taste has lovely mandarin oranges and some white flowers again. The palate is light to medium bodied and textured with a lovely clean finish. This is lovely!

bottle at home from alesella.
Pours burnished gold, hazy with a frothy off-white head that soon subsides to a lacing. Enticing pineapple and passion fruit on the nose. Custard cream malts up first followed by brash lime pith, and a long tropical fruit drying finish. Possibly detect motueka at play here. This is how I like my golden ales. only slight downfall for me is the carbonation being a little lively

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2012
Cask @ Bandstand Bar, Nairn 050612
This is improved considerably from when I first had it...in fact is has really changed but for the better - it’s a really good golden ale, more balanced, lots of nice fruity malts - I preferred it to the Avalanche

Cask @ Bandstand Bar, Nairn 6/3/7/4/14 241211
Amber, clear, frothy white head dissipated to thin layer, some lacing.
Aroma - Light grassy hops, light malts, some minerals - very light aroma
Taste - some grassy bit spicy hops, light caramel malts - not much flavour intially but builds up like a ’wave’ to the finish
Palate - soft carb, thin body. Finish - the flavour reaches it’s intensity here - spicy hops, citrus hops - grapefruit and grassy - quite dry - lingering hops with some minerals and a bit of cereal. Good for 4.1%.
Overall - This is a reasonably good debut beer - ..I wonder what is in store with higher abv beers, darker beers, stouts etc.......I think there is better coming in the future........one to watch

UPDATED: AUG 17, 2012 On cask at Cloisters. Pours a golden colour with a decent white head. Aroma of pineapple, pine and caramel. Similar flavours with mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Lovely.

Cask at Cloisters. Pale amber pour, creamy white head leaving occasional lacing. Slightly earthy, damp grass, hint of lemon zest on the nose. Palate is fresher - lemon zest, some orange pith, sharp grassiness with a drying bitter linger. It’s not perfect, but a pretty good debut.

(Cask at Craft Beer Islington, London, 22 Nov 2012) Amber colour with brief, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with apricots, orange and earthy hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of apricots, orange, soft and chewy malt and slightly earthy hops in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Well made and well balanced. Nice one.

Druaght@Brewdog Camden, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, floral and caramelly notes along with some mild toffee. Flavour is fruity, floral with some mild wooden and caramelly notes.

This was quite nice, simple .. . nice balanced mouth .. . good session beer .. . mild earthy hops and flowers .. . .
The new girl is upset with me for mispronouncing her name. Apparently it’s Sara with an ’uh’ and not Lisa. God, what a picky bitch.

From tap at brewdog Edinburgh. Poursclear and glden amber to orange. Fruity and citrusy aroma. Bitter and crisp hoppy. Crisp hoppy, citrusy and smooth fruity, simple and nice. Bitter and citrusy finish