Orkney Dark Island (Bottle)

Dark brown with tiny beige head. Sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel and coffee.

bottle 33cl: ok, small greyish head. aroma of coffee. a lot of different flavors in this beer, chokolate, caramel and coffee are just the strongest of them. a great beer. defenetly.

Pours dark brown with light tan head. Aroma of smoked malts. Mildly sweet smoked malt flavor. It seems like this could be considered a smoked beer. Full body with minimal carbonation and a slick mouthfeel.

liked this very much. How is this not a smoked? There is smoke all over the place. Some peat as well. Medium sweet malt, and like red wine. Low carbonation and lightly spiced with an herbal, wildflower character. Thick and black. I found the alcohol to be entirely hidden and I thought this was about 1/2 has strong as it really is.

Pours near black with a moderate and short-lived tan head, yet plenty of carbonation. Big aromas of coffee, vanilla and dark chocolate with some caramel sweetness. Flavour had some sweet oakiness, like a cheap Australian chardonnay, roasted malt and chocolate. As others have mentioned, this tailed off badly with some limp, sickly sweetness in the finish. Not a patch on the cask version.

Aroma is creamy, caramelized malt, smoked grains. Taste is carbonation, smoke, roasted caramel, with kind of a club soda finish. Pretty decent. Love the smoke, wish this had a touch more age on it. Would like to try again.

They’re also not telling us something about the smoked malts that permeate this gorgeous brew. On revisiting, the chocolate character emerges a lot. Quaffable and sippable at the same time.

Bottle- Pours nearly opaque with a greyish beige head. smells bready, plums, chocolate, sweet sugar and coffee. tastes earth, cherries and some chocolate. slight smokyness in finish.