Innis & Gunn Limited Edition Highland Cask

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: English Strong Ale
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Bottle 33cl. @ post Borefts BF 09 hotel tasting
[ As Innis & Gunn Limited Edition Oak Aged Highland Cask ]. Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091031]

(Bottle) Reddish amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of toffee, butter, vanilla, heather and peaches. Malty, fruity taste with toffee, butter, ryvita and vanilla. Medium body, rather sweet. Dries out towards the end, saving it from getting cloying. Both bitterness and oak tend to come in the background of the dominant toffee and butter features. An interesting beer, however possibly not brilliant.

Shiny copper color with a small off-white head that leaves plenty of lacings. Toffee, bread, malts, plums and a surprisingly prominent note of banana.A hint of vanilla. Something about the smell seems artificial. Not very impressive. The taste is on the sweet side, to say the least. Actually, it’s very sweet. Plenty of sweet fruit flavors. The strange banana aromas are present in the taste as well. Raisins, some leafy hops and a hint of oak barrels. Lots of malts, butterscotch and toffee, like every other beer I’ve come across from this brewery. The finish is mildly bitter with a minimal peaty note and a lingering mix of minerals, raisins and orange. Kind of a weird taste, it’s too sweet and some of the flavors seems really out of place. Unbalanced. Medium body, medium carbonation. This is not a terrible beer, nor is it impressive. My main question is: Where’s the barrel-aged character? Where’s the whisky? Seems like they’ve barrel-aged this one for about five minutes. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)

Bottle from Systembolaget. Amber color. Sweet aroma with nuts, toffee, vanilla and oak. Cloying sweet toffeish, nutty and oaky flavor with vanilla and no bitterness. No balance at all, hops are completely forgotten. There are some nice oaky and whiskey notes but sugary sweetness completely ruins the experience. Might as well put alcopop into single malt barrel.

Clear red color with a white head - looks OK. Aroma is all about vanilla and toffee. Flavour is sweet with lots of vanilla and toffee/butterscotch. Palate is rather thin, but smooth. Well, I don’t think this beer tastes bad, but it’s just too sweet and meaningless. No interesting character at all.

Bottle: : Clear red colour, thin white head. Aroma of coffee,vanilla,wood and a sweet caramelly. Som hints of citrus,bitter nose in the end. Flavor had a darkchoclatemixed with coffee beens mouth feeling. Surpicingly thin body, suguar and vannila dominated the medium finish.

(Bottle) Pours dark copper amber with an off-white head. The aroma holds buttery and vanilla-like notes from the oak as well as hints of light cocoanut. Fruity undertones of apples, cherries, bad pineapple juice/pina colada and dried apricots. Hints of sticky dark fruits and herbal hops. The malt base is sugary, nutty and simple. The flavour is near medium sweet and light bitter with notes of raisins, vanilla, butter, nuts, apples, coconut, pineapple and cherries. The watery pina colada notes are notable in the flavour as well. The mouthfeel is dead and near medium carbonated. Light fruity and light papery aftertaste. Near medium boded. This product is bad, like so many other Innis & Gun beers.

Amber with a medium , off-white head. Oak and fruity notes. Malt, fruit and oak. Medium to full body with a nice, bittersweet finish.