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Valhalla Simmer Dim

Score
3634
OVERALLStyle
Brewed by Valhalla
Style: Bitter
Unst, Shetland, Scotland
Serve in English pint

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on tap
available

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RATINGS: 29   MEAN: 2.87/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.85   EST. CALORIES: 120   ABV: 4%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Regular. Also available bottle conditioned.
From the Valhalla Brewery in Unst, comes this light, golden bitter ale. Its name comes from the Shetland dialect words for that hauntingly beautiful twilight time at midsummer when darkness never descends on these isles - the sun sets, only to rise again just minutes later. Simmer Dim is the latest production and was launched in April 2000, at the annual Shetland Folk Festival and temporarily named 'Festival 2000' for that event, but was later named Simmer Dim. It has an ABV of 4.0% and is a light golden bitter.


2.4
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
BeerCast_Rich (1056) - Edinburgh, SCOTLAND - AUG 25, 2011
[cask at the Stockbridge Tap, Edinburgh] Poured almost totally flat – which was a surprise. Slightly hazy deep golden ale, aromas of biscuit malt and musty, funky strangeness. A pretty decent malty bitter on the taste, even if it did smell like a football stadium toilets [15022009]

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
DruncanVeasey (4800) - NUNEATON, Conference North, Warwickshire, ENGLAND - SEP 19, 2010
Bottle. Burnished with a dimpled white foam. Aroma beeswax, orange jelly and dried apricot with a nose-twitching gust of CO2. Dry yeasty bite, apple peel, hints of dampness, jellied orange, sappy hop. Blunt hop finish with a clean malt linger- bread and nut husk. Decent yeasty drop, if eye-wateringly fizzy.

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
gunnar (2279) - Sandnes, NORWAY - APR 20, 2010
Bottle @ Henriks, Bergen. Pours hazy golden with a very small head. No visable carbonation. No aroma here...Taste is watery, light sweet, some light grains, thats all. No aftertaste

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Sigmund (3495) - Hafrsfjord, NORWAY - DEC 22, 2009
500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Like all bottled beers from this brewery, it is filtered to remove all remaining yeast (but possibly not pasteurised?). ABV is 4.0%. Golden colour, low white head of poor retention. Moderate aroma, some fruity hops on a grainy background. Moderate carbonation in the glass, initially a soft mouthfeel. The flavour has first some fruity hops, ending in a sharpish bitter finish, also some sharpish grainy notes, which seem to be part of this brewery’s "house character".

2.5
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
abemorsten (1201) - Randaberg, NORWAY - DEC 12, 2009
Pours hazy yellow golden with a small white head. Unrevealing aroma. Maybe some lemon. Taste is light Sweet, acidic and bitter. Light to medium body. Watery texture and flat carbonation. (9.12.2009 Bottle @ Cardinal, Onsdag^2)

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
fonefan (23599) - VestJylland, DENMARK - DEC 2, 2009
Bottle 50cl. @ home.
Clear light medium orange amber color with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, keller, wood, earth, chlorine - plastic notes, moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, plastic. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090816]

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 15/20
strings (377) - Sydney, AUSTRALIA - JUN 29, 2009
On tap at Sheep’s Heid Inn in Edinburgh. Really liked this one a lot, one of the best British ales I’ve tried. No head to speak of. Smells more bitter than it tastes if such a thing is possible, so brown sugar nutty sweetness comes as a pleasant surprise.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
RichardGretton (3711) - Leicestershire, ENGLAND - JUN 3, 2009
Bottle. Golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is gently hopped, and the flavour is very bitter, but with a soapy after taste. Overall a bit of a disappointing beer.


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