3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask
Deep bronze body, creamy thick white head.
Aroma of rich toffee and spice hop, much the same on the body with a medium bitterness to finish.
Full body, stickiness about the texture.
Nice malt driven ale.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, at the pub next to the brewery (Sligachan, Scotland). Nutty and caramel malty nose. Clear, brown-red coloured with a perfectly creamy head. . Taste is sweet, caramel, has some hops, nuts also. And, I thought there was some peat in it as well. But after some days on the Scottish isles you smell peat everywhere.. Enjoyable brew.
1.5 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 6/20
I sampled a bottle of this at home after getting a pack as a gift. The beer poured nicely into a mug pint glass with a thick head and brown body. That’s about it, no nose to speak of, not even any taste; this was like drinking a pint of coloured water. I sampled another to make sure it wasn’t off, but this was the same. I tried another from a different batch a few weeks later to the same effect. This is a pint of coloured water.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask, Alloa Beer Festival. Nose is medicinal with a balance of malt and hop, some fruitiness. Mouth is sweet maltiness, false orange. Tasted bad.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Blue Blazer ... Deep Copper ... light malt ... sweet malty and fruity ... nicly balanced ... over sparkled (typical blue blazer) little caramel toffee malt.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle at home. Dark amber with a moderate head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, fruit, apple. I find the same notes in the flavour, that also has notes of caramel. There is a brief acidity in the middle and a nice bitterness generally. It’s too apple-juice-like and too thin.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask, at the Sligachan Hotel, Isle of Skye. Yeasty aroma, pretty much drowned out everything else. Deep Amber color with nice lacing and a cascading head a-la Guinness. Yeasty taste, hop bitterness with a bit of malt sweetness hiddin in there. Served warm, but for some reason I liked it that way. Optimum drinking setting made for a high overalll score
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