Craigmill Swallow I.P.A.

Formerly brewed at Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Bitter
Alloa, Central, Scotland

Cask Conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Pale orange, hazy beer with no head. Thin watery beer with a crystal crispness of malty type. Not much evidence of Scottish hops.

Hazy appearance with a dissapointing lack of taste.Certainly I wouldn't class it as a I.P.A more like a light ale that has gone wrong.By and large the Scotish micro's are producing some superb beers-this isn't one of them.

Bottle. Clean crisp and refreshing with a long hop tail and a dusty bite at the end. A decent session bitter.

Coffee and licorice aroma. Quite exceptional-looking with dirty, hazy brown color, and almost no head. Very soft, coffee and yeasty-like taste.

Hazy amber, fast fading off white head.Faint dry nose. Tastes like a macro lager.

Bottled. Lovely golden colour, with fine white lacy head. Good malt aroma but not backed up in depth. Lacks bitter structure. Attractive but a little short on the palate

An amber sligthly hazy beer with a good head, though it disappears quite quick. It has a very nice fruity bitter-sweet aroma, do I detect a little orange? The flavor is a nice bitterness right from the start, no sweetness at all. It is a nice bitterness more like an English IPA than an American - different hop. The bitterness lingers a long time and turns almost woody at last. A very nice beer, that I definately will try again.

Hazy light orange appearance. Slightly citrusy and hints of sweet malt in the nose. Burnt hoppy finish. Ok IPA.