Broughton The Ghillie (Bottle)

: A rich maltyness dominates my first impression. The barley sugar and the hops work in the background to make a solid foundation for the long lasting aroma. This is how a beer should be like.

Slightly hazy orange amber with a thick almond coloured clotted-cream head that forms a 1cm lumpy mattress on top. This looks very delicious. Sweet aroma of barley candy and dried apricots. Very malty palate, some caramel, some stone fruit, and a very bitter finish indeed. This is an exceptional bitter in my opinion.

very malty nose, opaque copper hue with no head, hints of yeast and malts with a hoppy aftertaste.

Bottled. An amber to ruby coloured beer with a white head and nice lacing. A very tasty beer which initially comes over malty and fruity in the aroma with berries. but then comes over all hoppy and quite American in feel. Actually the more I drink it the better it tastes, and those hops really please. I’d love to see others drink this blind, as I don’t think anyone would pick this out to be a Bitter from an old school Scottish brewery. Lovely.

Copper-colour, nice head. Oily hop-aroma with some coconut. Palate might be a bit on the thin side but the BIG taste of hops makes up for that.