Broughton Merlins Ale (Bottle)

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

Bottle 50cl.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, toffee notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Malt - burnt shell bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. (180508)

Bottle, 4.2% at ÅBF08. Green apple aroma. Clear golden colour. Small white head. Green apple flavour, slightly rough and plasticky.

Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml. Orange amber with white head. Light, malty, scottish type bitter with a slight peaty note, must be my imagination, but I get a little smokiness. Fruity, apple in the body and almost indistinguishable hop. Still quite reasonable and easy drinking.

Århus2008. 50 cL bottle. Pours clear golden yellow with a lacing white head. Light fruity hops aroma. Flavour is mild sweet hoppy with a light fruity note, nice and lingering light. Ends with a mild bitterness and light fruity flavour into the far finish.

500 ml, bbe Jul 09. Clear amber-orange, with a lasting creamy ring above. Spicy yeast and slight caramel apple aroma. Flavor is a mild, delicate balance of some slight toffee, grain, and not-sweet apple with some dry wood and bitter herb. Light-medium body is smooth, with a slight tingly dryness, and highly drinkable. Not really worth $4.50 a pint, but a very good session bitter.

Pours an almost completely clear yellow with a big, foamy, white head. Malty aroma nicely balanced with hops. Soft carbonation with a clean finish.

Bottle. Light hoppy nose with yeast and the image of pieces of fruit jammed into bread. Sickly pale orange pour with a soapy beige head. Taste has some nearly-malic pale malts and paper floral notes. Dry, bitter, slightly resinous hops appear suddenly in the mid-body and then come to dominate the aftertaste. Crisp watery body. Has some significant character worth enjoying, but, on the whole, there’s too little here to warrant a high score.

The aroma is malty with paper, grassy hops and yeast. The appearance is amber gold with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. This one is sort of disappointing.