Broughton Merlins Ale (Bottle)

Brewed by Broughton
Style: Bitter
Biggar, The Borders, Scotland

16.9 oz bottle 4/17/09 (Binny’s-Naperville)-Pours a slightly hazy orangish brown with a small loose off white head. Aroma of malt, fruit, and hops. Taste is of sweetness, malt, hops, and citrus. This light to medium bodied beer is not too bad and quite drinkable. I was expecting worse.

Appearance: Orange brown. Little head. Aroma: Standard hops-malt-fruit. Taste: Quite mellow. Some hops and fruit. Slightly sweet. Info: 500ml bottle, 12/3-2009

Pours a light amber orange with a finger of soft white foam. Aroma of light caramel, grassy and spicy hops. Taste is toasty malt, then caramel, toffee, and a lightly grassy hop finish.

Pours amber gold into an English pint. Bright white head leaves sheet lacing as it recedes to coat surface. Sweet pond aromas. Thin and astringent with tangy caramel and a metallic turning bitter caramel finish.

The color of dark honey with a small white head. Nose is fruit and caramel. Fruit flavor, malt, hop bitterness, cider. Hops come to the forefront as the beer warms. This is a pleasant and easy to drink beer. Flavors could be more pronounced but this has some unique aspects.

pours a clear pale orange with a very small egg-shell head, and some lacing. smell is of corn, malt, touch of citrus, hops, and caramel. taste is crisp, watery, tangy, grain, some citrus, hops, some caramel, and malt, ends with a little bitterness.

Bottle. Good light hop aroma mixed with sweet flowers. Pours a medium brown in colour with a good white fluffy head. Maltly taste with crisp finish, nice and even tasting.

Bottle at home. caramel, cereal, spruce, amber, clear, frothy, lightly bitter, light body, oily feel, average carbonation,