Kelburn CaCanny (Cask)

Brewed by Kelburn
Style: Old Ale
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Snifter

First tasted this in Chestnuts Hotel, Ayr in January 2004. Cask, handpump dispense. Ruby black in colour with a thick creamy buff head and resembles Orkney Dark Island in looks. Rich roast coffee and caramel notes in the long seductive sweet aroma. Thick creamy mouthfeel in texture (like Dark Island) and superb lacing throughout. Dark malts give a rich moist and heavy fruit loaf base with dates, damsons, sultanas, molasses and caramel. Slight prickle of spicy hops but short lived in the aftertaste. Finish is thick and powerful with the malt as vinous port, treacle toffee and oak cask come through. This is a cracking Scottish Old Ale and highly recommended.

On cask at The Bow Bar. Pours a dark brown colour with a thick, light tan head. Aroma of roasty malt, coffee and chocolate. Similar roasty flavour with chocolate again and a creamy mouth-feel. Nice.

On gravity at the Tewkesbury Beer festival, 4/02/2011. Jet black with a slight tan head. Sweetish aroma of dark fruits and caramel, with some balancing roasted malts. Flavour had the same sweetness, with some chocolate and milky coffee notes, leading to a dry finish. Very good.

UPDATED: JAN 9, 2011 Cask @ The Cafe Royal, Edinburgh. Mild fruity aroma. Dark brown colour with a good head. Mixed fruit & prune flavour. Coffee aftertaste. Not really my thing.

Cask @ Hengler’s Circus, JDW. Ruby-red brownish colour, tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee and fruits. Flavour is roasted malts, bit of coffee. Fruity and sour. Ok mild.

Draft at Cafe Royal - Dark brown, creamyness. Some malts and fruits to taste. Not super memorable.

Cask at Café Royal, Edinburgh 12 Nov 08. Dark brown/amber colored. A small creamy head. Some fruit in the aroma. “Smooth”. Fruity flavor with some malt. Hardly any bitterness.

cask edinburgh ... deep brown ... coffee malts ... smooth sweet coffee malts ... some drinking chocolate ... light spice