Orkney Dark Island (Bottle)

16.9 oz bottle-A dark brown with a nice tan head. Aroma of smoke. Taste of smoke and malt with more smokeand caramel. A nice tasting beer.

Bottle. Poured dark brown with an average creamy brown head that lasted with good lacing. Heavy roasted chocolate malty and smoke aroma. Medium body with a creamy texture. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. This beer goes well with a cigar.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet roasted coffee. Flavour is roasted coffee and caramel.

Bottle. Dark, reddish brown, almost clear, with a small beige head. Light chocolate aroma, some roasted sourness, coffee and cocoa. Smoked flavor with notes of coffee. Medium body. Nice beer, but not my old ale. Rating: 5-4-6-4-12-3.1 (060720)

Bottle. Clear, ruby body, topped by a lasting, beige head. Caramel, hints of butterscotch, smoke, coffee, vanilla, peat and a little saltyness in the aroma. Licorice, smoke, peat, caramel and hints of coffee in the flavor. Medium body. Long, coffee-bitter finish. Quite lovely. Rating: 7-4-6-3-13-3.3. (070914)

Bottle. A pitch black beer with a finger-thick beige head. Dryish nose with coffee and chocolate, roasted malts and some dried fruits. There seems to a faint note of peat too. Some sweetness in the mouth, but drying towards the finish. Chocolate, figs and dates, coffee and some peat. Not much bitterness. Dry, full-bodied mouthfeel with a tad too much co2. Coffee-like finish with chocolate sweetness and some dried fruits. A rather nice one, especially considering it’s low ABV. (090620)

(04.27.06) One pint 0.9 oz brown bottle from Golden Eagle, Libertyville, IL. 4.6% ABV. Poured clear dark ruby brown with small white head. Soft carbonation. Strong peat and smoke aroma, characteristic of Orkney. The peatiness and smoke strongly permeated the flavor of this dry beer with some light malt sweetness to balance out the flavor. The peat and smoke continued through the dry finish. This is a very good Scottish “rauchbier”.

500 ml bottle at Haket in Gothenburg, Sweden. Pours beautifully, with the big head falling out in the liquid at first. Still it leaves a massive beige head, creamy at the top and filled with tiny bubbles underneath. Dark red color, clear. Burnt and quite a bit of smoke in the scent. Fairly low bitterness. Fresh mouthfeel, but not much taste at first, clear chocolate and a bit of coffee in the aftertaste though.

Bottle. Roasty, slightly burned taste but quite lowkey flavour. It pours as dark brown with a minimal head. A medium sourness, long finish.

Bottled. Pours a very dark brownish/ruby sort of color. Roasted malty aroma. Slightly sweet with a little chocolate as well. Slightly sweet up front with a burnt, roasted, malty flavor. Roasted bitter malty finish.