Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

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

A pitch black beer with a beutiful huge chocolate brown head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of chocolate. The flavor is slightly sour combined with bitter chocolate - it ends on a good bitterness. A nice dry stout.

Dark brown colour with ruby highlights and a brown head. Aroma of coffee, roasted malt and chocolate. Medium to Light-bodied; Coffee, roasted malt flavour with some subtle chocolate tastes. Aftertaste bittered from the malt, but actually left fairly clean, factoring in the style. Overall, a decent stout, not exemplary though! I bought this 50 cL bottle at Green's Beverages in Atlanta, Georgia and sampled it on 28-September-2003.

Nice thick rootbeer float head (big creamy bubbles) which leads to some great lacing. Aroma of cocco puffs (in milk), dark roasted grains and a hint of coffee. Color is essentially black. Flavor is not quite as thick as I expected. Slightly chalky and thinner that expected. Good roasted flavor, almost burnt at times like a crispy burnt steak that when you eat it dissintegrates into little carbon pieces (gritty). Good flavor though. Finish has a distinctive coffee flavor and leaves a chalky film in the mouth. Little bit of bitterness from the hops also. I keep going back to the chalky/gritty sensation but the beer is still decent beyond that.

Bottle. Poured a medium sized tan head that mostly diminished, poor lacing, no visible carbonation, opaque, and a black hue. Nose was malty, coffee, roasty, and a little smokey. Flavor was coffee, malt, roasty, somewhat burnt tasting, thin, a little smokey, and a little bit of chocolate. Mouthfeel was slightly tingly and thin for this style. Light-medium body. Thin texture for this style and. There are better of this style out there IMO.

Bottle pours black with a nice tan head and some lace. The aroma is roasty and chocolate. The flavor is lactic, roasted, chocolate, and has a fairly rich palate but at the same time quite seemingly artificially carbonated. Ya know, overall, this is not real bad, but also not real good. I’ve had some good beers this evening, and I really do not want to bias my rating of this, but I’m not real impressed.

Pint bottle from Degarth! - Thanks Joe! - Pours black with a big foamy tan head that stays pretty well and laces in patterns. Aromas of coffee, roasted malts, and some cocoa. Flavor has lots of roasty notes, a little coffee, and some light chocolate.. Thin bodied and less robust than other stouts but this is only 4% alcohol. Not bad though I think it would make a pretty nice session stout...

Bottle; poured a very dark brown with a small to medium tannish head. Aroma was actually quite strong and good for abv. Some definite grape/wine components, with roasted malt, caramel, meat and earth. Dry and thin on the palate. The aftertaste was not very appealing as it was a bit ashy and chalky. Flavor was really a let down from the aroma. Some caramel, alot of roasted malt, and something akin to butter. Not a great beer, but a great aroma.

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.