Orkney Dark Island (Bottle)

Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Old Ale
Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

Great beer with a nice redbrown color and a ivory creamy head. This is a typical scotish ale with a light to medium sweetness. It has a intens fruity aroma and a medium body and a good dosis of fine malts and hints of fresh roasted coffeebeans. In the afthertaste there is a nice boost of nobel hops. Fine bitterness in the end.

Deep garnet color with a tan frothy head. Aroma was coffee, some spice, some smoke. Toffee. Caramel. Who knows. Medium body with a slightly watery texture. Flavor was whiskey, caramel, some smoke, roasted coffee. Good stuff.

Rusty copper with a big long lasting tan head. The nose is malty caramely and funky taste with a tfunky cream and malts. Blah

Dark brown coloured. Malty aroma with notse of cinnamon. Pleasant malty and sweet flavour.

Nice dense, creamy head of fine bubbles. Damn I love the smell of a good scottish ale. Big malt but creamy and milky with a touch of licorice. Color is a murky dark brown. Very smoky flavor with more malts and a decent helping of hops to offset the malt. Flavor is a little lacking. Finish is not what I expected. Thin and fizzy with a strange sour and burnt sensation on the tongue. Feels like more than 4.6% alcohol also. A decent scottish ale that starts off great but ends kind of dissapointing.

(on bottle) Hail to the scotts!! My fave scottish ale and since I favorite scotish ale before anything else... very powerfull liqurice and smoke to the nose. Although that lasts into the taste too, the fine hopping give the brew a fresh feeling too it. Big heath-aftertaste. A prie example of scottish ales. Thank you, Orkney Brewery.

Beautiful dirt-colored ale with frothy head. Smoky, dark corn syrup and brown sugar aroma. A lot of dark chocolate and just a touch of coffee adds another dimension to the malts. I love how they don’t go wacky and put a lot of hops to "add body." Very true to style, a lot of flavor for the low ABV.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a black color with a very small head. The scent is chocolate, coffee and molasses. The flavor is dark chocolate, coffee and a hint of smoke. This beer is a little thin, and the flavor is kind of disappointing compared to the scent.