Loch Ness Wilder Ness

Brewed by Loch Ness
Style: Bitter
Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Bottle from Tomlinsons, Inverness. It pours clear amber with a thick beige head. The nose is wood, earth, toffee, light toast, apricot and peach. The taste is earth, wood, leather, decent bitterness, toast, light spice and a touch of citrus with a set finish. Medium body and fine-moderate carbonation. Good balance. Nothing particularly exciting, but a solid bitterness nonetheless.

Cask conditioned handpump Salmon Leicester 09/05/13. A brown beer with a white head and lace. Nicely hopped. Good fruity notes with soome sweeter malts. Good late bitterness. A well constructed full flavoured beer.

Bottle at home from AleselA
Pours dark blonde with a slight, off-white head. Sweet bruised peaches, mango, tangerine on the nose.Prickly carbonation with sweet, juicy fruit, some orange pith, caramel and a dry bitterness that numbs the tip of the tongue leading to a sticky pithy finish.

330ml bottle - Pleasant faint taste of hops in the background. I really enjoyed this, however I was particularly thirsty and that may have affected my judgement. Good flavour for a 3.9 alc.

Ascot Beer Festival 2012. Pours a dark amber colour no real head, aroma had malts and a hint of caramel and dark fruit, taste was malty and fruity with a dry finish.

Cask @ Old Mill Brodie
Dark amber....clear...big frothy head from sprinkler
Aroma - caramel malt...fruity - hint of red berries....dab of yeast
Taste - fruity malts....light caramel malt...some bitter hops....quite fruity but not much else
Palate - thin body...slightly oily texture. Finish as main flavour but quite bitter on the linger
Overall - just an average bitter - it was the end of the cask but was in reasonably good condition.....bit plain but OK.....will re-rate!

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2013 cask at cloisters ...copper thin whirte head ... soft toffee malt nose ... dull thin sweet orange fruit hop ... little dull malt ... very standard bitter .. but bit dull and not theyre best cask at bow ... copper ... thin tan head ... soft toffee malt ...soft creamy malt... zezty dry woody fruit ... 3.3

Cask by handpump at Halfway House, Edinburgh (16 Jan 12) - clear dark goldn ale with small white head, served a bit too cold, watery taste with a hint of apple, but nothing too distinct

Cask @ The Halfway House, Edinburgh. Mild fruity caramel malt aroma. Reddish amber brown colour, not much head. Apple / mixed fruits & malt flavour. Watery with sour aftertaste. A new one but not a good one.