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Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

Percentile
75
overall
Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Stout

Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3243.31/5.03.3/5.04%58.3English pint
Commercial Description:
"A black stout which is brimming over with roast malt flavours, balanced with a complex hop blend. Really smooth with roasted aftertaste."
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 BeerHawk (1175), Huntsville, Alabama, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 16, 2005  
Bottle: Black in the glass with a fuzzy, soda like, light brown head. The head lasted and produced good lacing. Malty stout aroma. Milk chocolate and coffee flavor almost like a mocha or coffee ice cream. Some hoppy background and a smoky after taste. Light to medium body. Thought it would be fuller. Pretty good anyway.


 Magicdave6 (5490), London, Greater London, England
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/513/20
Sep 16, 2005    Updated: Nov 1, 2005
Had this in a bottle befor ebut re-rating it on cask. Pours perfectly, really dark black with great brown head. Aroma is roasted malts with a little grassy hops. Taste is reasted malts and maybe burnt coffee with a balancing sweetness. Very nice ale, would like to get it in more often.


 wavers1 (129), novato, California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/57/103/512/20
Sep 12, 2005  
lightly salted syrupy aroma fades quick.dark brown with a creamy khaki head that leaves not a trace on any glass. choco roasted taste, nice medium body, fading with a bking coco aftertaste. descent stout.


 xenthem0nk (101), Oregon, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/512/20
Sep 3, 2005  
Pours really dark auburn. Nose is licorice and Nyquil. Taste is...how can I put this? Flat, barren, desolate..perhaps a wasteland of otherwise potential complexities, a stout complete with tastebud-tumbleweeds. Aside from typical cocoa/coffee/roasted malt, and a bit of a sourness, its a bland stout with a creamy palatte.


tofubeth (9), Vermont, USA
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3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 17, 2005  
A solid stout--one good for moving people past the regular brews into specialty beers. Not nearly as good as the Dark Island Ale, but a fine chaser to Dark Island.


 mephisto (1144), Taiwan
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/510/20
Aug 12, 2005  
bottled, nice aroma of malt w/ hint of coffee, lively carbonation. body is rather thin for a stout.


 richlikebeer (832), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/512/20
Jul 31, 2005  
looked really nice, a big thick frothy head on top of an onyx liquid, aroma was equally as enticing, with lots of toasted malts, a bit of smoke, coffee and chocolate. unfortunately for this beer, it was downhill from there, flavor was very single faceted - toasted chocolate - and the aftertaste was a bit sour and grassy. body was alot thinner than i think it should be. this could be alot better with some heavier malt content that would boost the flavors and the body to a higher level.


 KAggie97 (2427), Ugly, Hot, and Humid Spring, Texas, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/519/20
Jul 18, 2005  
Pours a beautiful onyx with a healthy, frothy head that clings to the glass. Aroma is almost exclusively chocolate, with a bit of smoked malt thrown in for good measure. Flavor is a titilating blend of smoke and malt, heavy on the smoke. Some peat is detectable. This is a stout all unto its own. I WOULD LOVE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE.



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