Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

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

Good example of the style. Full complex chocolate flavor. The malt dominates and lingers on the palate. Good but not a session beer.

From Skjold Burne, Aarhus, DK. Bottled. Black with brownish head. Aroma of roasted malt. Flavor is coffee, wood and fruit notes

Bottle from Jungle Jim’s. Pours a dark brown with a medium tan head. Chocolatey aroma with dark fruit and apple notes. More chocolate and apple in the flavor with a smoky and dry finish.

Bottle. Brown-black beer with a dark tan head. Big chocolate aroma with some roast. Roasty, slightly astringent flavor with some background chocolate and bitterness. Thinner body (but what to expect at 4%). LIngering dark roasty malts and chocolate.

Deep garnet color, tan head that last the entire glass. Rosted coffee bean arom and flavor, and has a dry, chocolatey finish. Somewhere in the middle, however, there some sort of mediciney taste that seems out of place and kind of ruins the whole thing. If I drink another and this turns out to be spoilage of some sort, I'll re-rate.

Bottle. A pleasant enough stout. Pleasant aromas. Nice fluffy coffee coloured head. Nicely roasted. But nothing special.

Pours a deep black color with a ring of light brown lace. Aroma and flavor of vanilla and coffee. The body is light with a creamy texture and low carbonation. I thought this would be way better, oh well...

Decent black stout. Not overly thick or in your face but balanced with a bit of chocolate and coffee. This is a stout for your nonbeer buddy.