Orkney Northern Light (Bottle)

Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Stromness, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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500 ml bottle from Meny Liertoppen. Clear pilsner golden. Mostly diminishing fingerthick white head. Mild earthy and fruity hop aroma. Taste is light sourish, semi-dry pale malts, earthy, almost resiny bitterness, and a faint citrussy fruitiness. Medium to light body strenght. Finishes superdry, with a lingering fruity bitterness. A quenching one, nice session beer.

0,5 l bottle.Pours clear light golden, with a small whitw head. Fruity hoppy aroma. Weak malty taste, with some citrus as well.

Bottle (in), pouring a light golden colour with a foamy white head. A nice and healthy fruity hop aroma on a bed of juicy malt. A light mouthfeel, with the hops doing a good job of giving it a fruity flavour while still leaving it very sessionable. Just enough bitterness in the finish to bring you back for another sip. Surprised this hasn’t rated higher.

500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 4.0%. Crystal clear pale golden colour, big to moderate white head. Moderate aroma of fruity hops, hint of apricots. Light bodied and refreshing: The flavour has distinct fruity hops on a moderately sweet bakground of malts, ending in a well balanced resinous and grapefruity bitterness. A nice little summer ale this one.

Bottle, The Cave. Pours a clear golden colour, medium white head. Aroma has a decent amount of hops, along with some fruits. Flavour is hoppy, citric, with caramel malts.

Bottled A still looking headless golden beer. An odd sulphuric note to the aroma which has some straw too. The taste has some orangey citrus hops lurking behind the same attributes as the aroma. Some odd things going on here.

Bottle at home ... light amber ... sweet citrus fruity hop little metalic nose ... grassy hop ... over fizzy ... sweet malts ... little pear ...again a bit metalic.

Bottle, Beer Ritz, Leeds. Mmkay so its a mere 4percenter but surely this has been a tad underrated on here ? T’ain’t dat bad you know. Poured a darkish golden colour with a fading white head. Fragrant grassy hop aroma . Flavour was an appropriately lighty citrusy affair with a decent hop bitter finish that had a slightly mineral tang to it. Ok, but I’ll stck with the other kind of Northern Light(s) for now. Ya dig?

unclear yellow of color with a white head. An aroma of fruits, grass and weak dry notes. A flavor of frutis and hops.

500ml bottle from Cornelius Beer and Wine in Edinburgh. Bubbly white head on the top of a clear, golden body. Smell of herbal grass. Light orange fruit in flavour with brief suggestions of mild spices. Weak bitter endnotes. Shortage of taste and rather anonymous [at our hotel room 15.11.2008].