Isle of Skye Cuillin Beast

Brewed by Isle of Skye
Style: Scotch Ale
Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Sample tasting - Pours dark amber. Wee Beast (Cuillin Beast in the UK) is a beer brewed in Scotland at the Isle Of Skye Brewery. It’s Skyes strongest ale, originally only brewed for the bottle but now available in cask. Its fruitiness, sweetness and dry caramel contradict its strength. It was won many awards in competitions and at festivals throughout the UK. In the USA it is known as "Wee Beast" in its bottled form. The taste is winey grapes, fruit, stewed dried fruit, leaves, tea, earth, hints of bread and black pepper, and a definite light hop quality. In all, it almost seems more like an English barleywine than a Scotch ale.

16.9 oz bottle. Pours dark amber in color with tan head. Aroma sweet, woody and alcohol. Taste wiskey, sweet and roasted malt with bitter finish.

Bottle on 12/20/2008 from Once Upon a Vine - South. Slightly hazy amber body with a large frothy off-white head. Somewhat sour aroma, fruity with some caramel and a bit of toffee. Sour flavor, some caramel, fruit, and molassas. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Crushed with Jakebra. Fuckin nose. Then, not so much. Disappointed but still fulfilled. Too scotchy. Just not fun to drink.

Aros Ølfest, Aarhus, DK. Bottled, 241008. Amber with small head. Aroma of bread with notes of fruit. Flavor is fruity with malt, wood, hop spices and a touch of alcohol

Orange, thin ring of foam. Bready, toasty aroma, with some tartness or sourness. Flavor is...iced tea? then some bready, crackery notes, and an odd tart finish. Some smoky, earthy notes, as well.

This is a wonderful wee heavy. It’s reddish brown with a thin, off-white head quickly shrinking to a thin ring. The aroma is sweet grapes and wine with brown bread, leaves, and fruit. The taste was a lot of grapes and fruit, with wine, leaves, some bread and hint of pepper with an earthy-leafy hoppiness and bitterness with even a hint of lemon. It’s very tasty and interesting, and highly drinkable.

Pour is a cloudy red with a small tan head. Aroma is fruit vinegar with some sweet malts. Flavor is lots of berry with some dry malts and again the vinegar. Finish leaves a sourness on the tounge. This is just ok nothing great and nothing really bad to say.