Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

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

Dark, with a pretty head, coffee-colored and very creamy. Smells a bit chocolatey, some hops, but pretty restrained. Flavor is roasty, plenty of burnt wood, little bit of chocolate. Decently creamy.

Bottle. Pours an almost black hue of ruby with a nice tan head. The aroma is mostly chocolate with some earthy notes and just a bit of hops. The flavor is nutty at first and fades to roastiness with a saccharine finish. The flavor is quite weak because of the wateriness, which gives the whole thing an artificial feel. This almost seems like stout-flavored Kool-Aid. Disappointing.

Pours usual black body and smallish head. Aroma reminds me of Young’s Double Chocolate stout - I believe I quoted that as "I added Nestle Quik to the mix." Some roast in there as well. Palate is very light or watery. On top of that, it doesn’t feel balanced either. The aroma was fine for me, but the flavor was lacking. More coffee comes out in the finish, almost bitter. Blah. I remember having this when I was first drinking beer and thought it was fantastic. I remember savoring every drop, realizing this was a Guinness with a rich chocolately coffee like flavor. It had that light body that fit so well at the time since all I drank was Yuengling and bmc light. My how times have changed. This beer had a lot of potential, but fell far short.

Wow this is the best example of a dry stout Ive sampled thus far. This blows Guinness and Murphy’s out of the water! A good roasted malt and coffee aroma. Dark black apperance with a large beige head. The flavor is dry roasted malts, coffee, chocoate, and espresso. This has alot more body than your typical nitro stuff. Anyone that still thinks Guinness is the king of the dry stout style, you need to try this!

Coffee and malt aroma. Quite similar to Tsunami Stout, but not as refined. Chocolate, Coffee, cream, malt. Overall its pretty good, nice lasting tan head, black body. It is thin, but it’s still pretty decent.

Bottle sampled. Pours black with a nice one finger tan head. Sweet aroma of chocolate light coffee, and some dried fruit. Flavor of roasted malts, dark chocolate, and notes of cocoa with a dry finish.

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.

500 ml. Opaque black with a medium-sized head that lasts. Aroma is espresso, char, and spicy dark chocolate. Flavors of spicy smoke and charred wood dominate initially, but some dark chocolate and coffee come through later. Palate is nearly medium bodied, watery, and airy-frothy on the finish.