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Orkney Dark Island (Bottle)

Orkney Dark Island (Bottle) - Old Ale

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 Percentile 
88
overall
Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Old Ale

Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3893.51/5.03.5/5.04.6%78.3English pint, Snifter
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Commercial Description:
"The nose on this beer is ripe and fruity with slightly vinous esters, married to interesting hop notes - the colour of a glorious red ruby wine."
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 imdownthepub (5089), Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 4, 2006  
Cask conditioned at The Dun Cow, Hornton, Oxon. Dark black beer with light tan head. Super burnt coffee notes, challenging to the tongue with an earthy, peaty, woody combination goung on in the background. Chunky bitterness on the tongue, a good full bodied beer.


 Lou18 (1353), West Paterson, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jan 26, 2006  
Bottle. Pour was cloudy and dark with off-white head. Aroma was roasted ? almost burnt. Taste was earthy. Mouth feel was bit on the thin side. Nice beer, IMO.


 oh6gdx (8798), Vasa, Finland
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Jan 23, 2006  
Bottled. Dark ruby red colour, mediumsized creamy head. Chocholate, weak roasted malt and flowery sweet aroma. Flavour is caramel and roast with some weak bitterish notes. Chocolate strong in finish and aftertaste. Wellbalanced and pleasant thing from Orkney Brewery.


Kingsley (26), San Diego, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/514/20
Jan 5, 2006  
Poured from a bottle into a thistle glass, this beer is a cloudy, dark brown with a thin tan head. The aroma is strikingly peaty, along with toffee, fruit, and malt aromas. It’s very drinkable, starting malty and fruity and developing into a strongly peat-flavored, smoky, and noticeably sour complex of flavors which blend nicely with the hops at the finish. A bit watery at some points of the flavor profile, and the mouthfeel is only ordinary, but the flavor is quite nice. Not one I’d want to drink often, but this distinctive brew goes quite well with cajun style black eyed peas, for example.


 nick76 (2634), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/102/512/20
Dec 28, 2005  
The aroma is chocolate, coffee, and heavily toasted malt. The appearance is super dark brown (close to black) with a small but persistent head. The flavor is not complex but it is good. I taste toasted malt, chocolate, and coffee. The palate on the other hand could stand to be thicker. Overall it’s good.


 Palidor19 (1750), Brandon, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/55/102/512/20
Dec 28, 2005  
I lovedthe intial aroma in this beer, but unforualty the falls a bit short. The taste has traces of cocoa, and coffee and a mild tobacco-like flavor. Palate’s a bit thin. after-taste give a dark chocalte bar. still very good though


 oldrtybastrd (1801), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/514/20
Dec 14, 2005  
Pours a nice deep dark reddish brown color. Big roast malt aromas with hints of smoke/coffee/chocolate. Flavor is a dark smokey chocolate with the slightest tingle of hops.


 Probiere (992), Iowa, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/516/20
Nov 28, 2005  
For a 5% beer this was very smoky, oily, and peaty. Abundant but fine carbonation. Very soft, medium-heavy mouthfeel. Body is dark and murky. Nutty notes. Some fruitiness or acidity might have balanced this out a little better. Very nice, but somewhat overwhelmingly peaty.



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