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.

The aroma is coffee, cocoa powder and chocolate with a light roastiness. Smells nice. It pours dark brown to blacka nd holds a fairly lasting craggy mocha head. Very thin bodied fore, but nice toasted flavors of malt, coffee and chocolate. Hints at molasses and black licorice without ever really going there all the way. The finish is watery and the flavor really drops out. This could be good, but as it stands it nearly has the body of a porter and doesn’t really satisfy my stout tooth.

Bottle at Århus Ølfestival. Black coloured with a medium sized beige ehad. Sweet and roasted aroma of caramel, coffee, chocolate and hops. Sweet and roasted flavour of caramel, chocolate and liquorice. Roasted finish.

caramel malt aroma. almost black with a tan head. dry and bitter. i also taste smoked peat and hazelnuts. no hops detected. very dry.

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 at a mates house ... another in the series of common beers i some how havnt rated ... black ... bubbly tan head ... quite a rich chocolate nose ... ligth bitterness ... again a tiny burntness but much lower than the cask version ... decent roast malt ... a little milky.

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.