Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

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

Dark black with a thin tan foam. Huge aroma of berries, roast, ashy, some light chocolate, coffee. Taste is soapy, fruity, berries, odd almost vinegar taste accompanies a dry ashiness. Unpleasant.

Pours black with a huge long lasting brown fizzy head. Aroma is powdery cocoa, chocolate, apple, roasted notes, Flavour is a bit of a letdown. It’s fairly complex, but not as big and flavourful as i wanted it to be. Ashy, a bit smoked, roasted malt, cocoa and chocolate, a little salty. Finishes quite bitter, can’t pin down the character of the hops. Surprisingly flavourful for the low abv, but a little bit on the thin side.

Dark and and great smell, even for a stout. Unfortunately, it seems the brewers forgot to add some flavor. This is like water. slight bitterness and smokiness, but you have to mull it over for a while.

Bottle. And the caps off...this stout pours a very, very dark brown, you could say black but the mind and eye is known to play tricks. The head is tanned and the foamy layer leaves a nice lacing around the inside of my chalice glass. There’s a big roasted aroma here, slightly burnt too. Actually it’s quite dominate and really holds back any other aromatics coming through. Dark chocolate and coffee are competing for a place but once again the burnt malt pushes them aside for the final sprint. I’m anticipating the flavour to mirror the nose and sure enough it doesn’t let me down. It’s bitter in the mouthfeel and the body is somewhat thin and watery. There’s as much balance here as a playground seesaw sitting a six foot ten steroid abusing sumo wrestler on one end and Mary-Kate Olsen on the other. It’s not a bad stout by any means it’s just not that great either.

Dark, with light foam. Taste more as it gets more temperate. smooth, well balanced, pleasant, but also not very exciting. some saltiness behind coffe and roasted malt. too short a finish.

Roasted malts, just a bit bitter from hops, strong coffee and chocolate taste, burnt, biscuits, dark fruit.

500 ml bottle from Meny Liertoppen. Near black colored body. Dense, mostly lasting tanned head. Initial aroma of plums and ripe apples, followed by a pleasant scent of cocoa and mild coffee. Taste is toasted dark malts, a distinct plummy fruitiness and milk-chocolate. Mild earthy bitterness and a salty note. Good body. Feels soft and smooth in the mouth. Dry, slight bitter coffee-ish ending. A really nice one

Bottle. Bishops Arms. Järntorget, Gothenburg. Black colour with a small brown head. Roasted malt, coffee, licorice, light sweetness, earthy hops, faint smoke, mildly sour. Light bodied. Good, drinkable session beer.