Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Cask)

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

[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A pitch black beer with a nice bubbly brown head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of chocolate as well as light notes of roasted grain. The flavor has strong notes of chocolate and some roasted notes, leading to an extremely dry and roasted end. The mouthfeel is flat but very smooth.

Half pint cask at Charlies. Pours almost picthblack with a chocolate brown head. Vague aroma, slight citric and with a very faint note of malt. Roasted malt flavour with a mild chocolate smoothness. Hoppy fruityness and a nice bitterness into the finish.

Sampled cask conditioned at Akkurat, Stockholm.
Black with beige head. Roasty and creamy. Beautiful soft malt character. Roasty and velvetty. Remains from despite a light body. Salty, woody finish. Thoroughly pleasant.

Cask at Charlies. Dark brown coloured with a beige head. Light roasted aroma with notes of fruits. Roasted flavour of coffee, fruits and hops.

Cask gravity at Planet Thanet 07. Black colour with thin tan head. Aroma is a bit yeasty farty, flavour is a bit thin. Not a good stout, ugh.

1. Cask Stillage at the Howcroft Inn, Bolton 12/10/2001 Dark coloured and fruity. Spicy aroma. Woody roast finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Smithfield Hotel, Manchester 25/09/2003 Black with some spicy aroma. Bitter dry oyster finish.

Scotland 05. I have had this from bottle previously, and as I recall it was better? It’s brown/black with an OK head. The aroma is a bit smoked with a sourish touch. The flavour has light notes of chocolate, roasted malt, celery, a touch of smoke and a sourness that makes me wonder if the one, who served it, maybe forgot to clean the system this morning?

Cask @The Wharf, Aalborg. Pours a pitch black colour with a small head. Soft roasty maltiness, smoke and some chocolate in the aroma. Rather thin mouthfeel. The flavour has roasted malt, smoke and bit of coffee.