Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

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

Poured well. Deep black colour. Taste - too burnt, too much black malt for my liking.

A Mes rate: 50cl bottle from Whole Foods. Awesome black appearance with a decent tan head. Sweet aroma with some sickly chocolate notes. Straight forward chocolate flavour with a faint sourness in the finish and some late coffee to add some interest. Otherwise it’s pretty dull.

Pours a rich black with a decent tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, coffe, and dark fruit greet the nose. Flavor is very malty with emphasis on the roasted, chocolate, and toasted malts. Finsih is smooth and with a nice touch of roastedness.

Bottle. Pours a thick black with a tan head that fades quickly. Nose is roasted caramel malt, espresso, chocolate and a touch of rose turkish delight. Flavour is big on malts, burned and toasted maltiness and some long sand-dune grass. Quite gulpable, but not excruciatingly smooth. Finishes on the roasted side with some espresso bitterness and some lingering malt sweetness. Quite nice, could use some more ABV and a little less harshness on the immediate taste, but the smoothness makes up for it.

Bottle sampled. Pours black with a large tan head. Aroma of roast, chocolate, and hops. The flavor is sweet upfront, chocolate, mostly roast, and finishes bitter.

Big bitter roasty stout, lots of coffee and bakers chocolate flavors. Very smooth on the palate, feels very big for a 4% stout with a ton of malt character. Finish is of dry cocoa powder and burnt chocolate.

6/29/2007: Dragonhead Stout is very dark brown (clear) with a frothy beige head. The aroma is really good and is just like creamy milk chocolate. There is also a touch of roasted malt and dry cocoa powder. The flavor is quite dry (not really what I was expecting), but good nonetheless. Flavors of cocoa powder, roasted malt, and dark, bitter chocolate are present. The flavor is good overall, but a couple more percentage points of alcohol would have been welcomed and appreciated though. The medium to medium-full body is very smooth and creamy on the palate. Dragonhead Stout is a very interesting and solid beer. It would probably be more at home in the Dry Stout style category. Regardless, this is a beer that I will definitely drink again in the future.

500 ml bottle (sample) at the River’s Bend Wine & Spirits weekly beer tasting. Thanks Matt (mball581)!

pours dark brown/black with thin milk chocolate head. Toasted chocolate on the nose with hints of toffee and caramel. Light bodied tastes of roasted toffe, burnt nuts and a finishes with chewey chocolate/mocha maltyness.