Orkney Dark Island (Bottle)

Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Old Ale
Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

Dark brown coloured. Malty aroma with notse of cinnamon. Pleasant malty and sweet flavour.

Nice dense, creamy head of fine bubbles. Damn I love the smell of a good scottish ale. Big malt but creamy and milky with a touch of licorice. Color is a murky dark brown. Very smoky flavor with more malts and a decent helping of hops to offset the malt. Flavor is a little lacking. Finish is not what I expected. Thin and fizzy with a strange sour and burnt sensation on the tongue. Feels like more than 4.6% alcohol also. A decent scottish ale that starts off great but ends kind of dissapointing.

(on bottle) Hail to the scotts!! My fave scottish ale and since I favorite scotish ale before anything else... very powerfull liqurice and smoke to the nose. Although that lasts into the taste too, the fine hopping give the brew a fresh feeling too it. Big heath-aftertaste. A prie example of scottish ales. Thank you, Orkney Brewery.

Beautiful dirt-colored ale with frothy head. Smoky, dark corn syrup and brown sugar aroma. A lot of dark chocolate and just a touch of coffee adds another dimension to the malts. I love how they don’t go wacky and put a lot of hops to "add body." Very true to style, a lot of flavor for the low ABV.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a black color with a very small head. The scent is chocolate, coffee and molasses. The flavor is dark chocolate, coffee and a hint of smoke. This beer is a little thin, and the flavor is kind of disappointing compared to the scent.

Dark brown, ok head. Aroma is toffee and butter. Flavor is licorice and hops. A somewhat dry mouthfeel.

Brown, large tan head. Odd astringent nose.Lightly smoked malt flavor with whiskey overtones. Slight dry bitterness

Amber color with nice head. The taste is roasted malts with light notes of smoke. Not bad at all.