Highland Sneaky Wee Orkney Stout

Brewed by Highland
Style: Stout
Orkney, Highlands and Islands, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Cask by handpump at Pot Still, Glasgow - very dark brown near black, thin beige head, dark chocolate aroma, intermittent lacing, fruity, bitter, medium dry finish

Cask (gravity) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2012, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear dark black brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing to lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, dark roasted, light tar - ash. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120504]

Cask, Bodega, Newcastle. Black looks with a wee tan head . Nose had notes of choc, roast and hop . Flavour was on similar lines and had some robust dark malts leading to some hop bitterness towards the finish. Hard to fault. Tasty stuff.

From cask. Pours clear and golden deepamber with a small tan head. Aroma is roastedmalty, caramelish. Dry breadish and toffee and caramelosh. Bitter, dry hoppy. Dry and crisp hoppy. Ends linger dry hoppy and toffee.

Cask at Moorings, Aberdeen. It pours very dark brown, with a medium beige head. The nose is rather soft, roasted malt, toast, charcoal, liquorice and dark chocolate. The taste is roasted malt, coffee, light ash, tar, soft dark fruit, faint liquorice, dark chocolate, earth and some astringency, with a dry, toasty finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and mouth-feel. Well-balanced, flavoursome and rather drinkable.

Cask. Dark ruby/brown. Very roasty, lots of toffee, butterscotch. A little too roasty for me. Not overly complex.

Prominent roasted notes with a bit bitterness lingering. Reasonably rich (a problem with UK stouts, in my view, is getting a decent palate) but thin enough all the same. Burnt notes threaten to overtake my later sips as it warms. (cask at Scottish Real Ale Festival, Edinburgh, June 2012)

Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Deep ambery brown colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is liquorice, toffee, vanilla and some slight spicy notes. Flavour is liquorice, roasted malts, vanilla and some toffeeish notes. Balanced.

Cask @ The Bow Bar. Almost black colour, good beige head. Chocolate malt aroma. Treacle chocolate flavour. Smooth with slightly spicy aftertaste. Decent stout.

Cask conditioned at Reading BF 2012. Its a stout. Its an ok slightly ash tray smoke stout. Quite dry. Quite interesting. Fine.