3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark brown beer with a strongish head. The aroma is well hopped and dry, and the flavour is very bitter and dry. Overall a nice dry beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bridgend Hotel, Islay, Scotland.
Bottled, 260708.
Reddish brown with small head. Aroma of hop spices and caramel. Flavor is malt and som roasty notes. Yeasty tones of fruit.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, Rainhall Drinks, Barnoldswick.
There’s a really decent brew struggling to make its presence felt here, but it somehow falls short. It started out promisingly with some nice hoppage mingling with caramel malt to give quite a pleasant and inviting aroma. The flavour was more caramel malts and a vague slightly plasticy fruitiness; the hops aren’t given a chance to shine through, seeming smothered. Its not terrible by any stretch, and extra maeks for coming from Islay. I’m sure this would taste much better if it was drained in the 19th hole of the Machrie with a tasty malt by its side. When that scenario unfolds (asI hope it will one day) I will endeavour to re rate !
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark brown with a beige foam. Aromas are mollasses and roast coffee with caramel, spices and floral notes. Flavours are caramel and chocolate malts. Some roast character with earthy notes and berry. Soft but tasty.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark copper with a big off-white head. Fruity aroma with malt and caramel. Dry and malty flavour with fruity notes
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear brown - white head. NIce but light botterness, nutty, fruity, high malty, sweetness, berries, citrus, orange, light grassy, light wooden - hoppy.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Scottish Real Ale shop. Dark brown colour, large foamy head. Nose is yeasty, caramel, fruits. Flavour is soft malty, fruity, caramel and a bit yeasty. Soft finish. Pretty ok.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. A deep red beer with a huge tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and oranges. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw, oranges, and hops, leading to a dry finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark brown with a thick rocky head. Quite toasty aroma, light chocolate. Chocolate and slightly toasty palate, with some diacetyl accent, evidenced mainly in a slight slick note on the tongue.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle: Hazy, reddish-amber coloured, firm creamy tanned head; vinous, fruity (dried dark berries) nose with a certain acidity; soft MF, dryish bitter-sourish flavour, light to medium-bodied; fruity vinous finish with traces of cacao and a detectable acidity in the aftertaste. Sourish, but nevertheless quite well drinkable........
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