Orkney Northern Light (Cask)

Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Golden colour. Light bodied and very fruity with rounded mouthfeel. Low on hops, notes of honey, salty finish. Very drinkable.

Cask@GBBF2007. Yellow colour, big creamy white head. Aroma is herbs, hoppy fruits and some vegetables. Flavour is very wooden, hoppy (flowery and fruity) along with grass and slight burnt notes. Leaves a nice wooden and flowery flavour in the aftertaste.

Cask Stillage at the King George’s Hall, Blackburn 06/09/2001 Amber coloured and slightly bitter. Fruity with a hop finish.

Scotland 05. Golden with a delicious head and a nice fruity/flowery and malty aroma. The flavour has a light honey sweetness and nice notes of fruit, flower and malt. It’s uncomplicated, quenching and refreshing, og it has a lot of flavour in spite of the only 3.8% - neat!

Iv yet to figure out why they have changed this so there is now a cask vertion aswell as a bottled? Aroma is hoppy and clean. Taste is reasonably balamnced but edging towards hops but a little uninspiring.

Cask@The Market Porter, Borough, London. Golden colour. Quite crisp and light, and a little bit lagery. Citrusy, with some light peaty malt characters, easy drinking, but a bit boring.

Cask Conditioned at The Rose & Crown, Charlbury, Oxon. Pale golden beer with thin bubbly head. Spicy resinous beer, light and thin with a burnt flavour. Thin finish making it largely unexiting.

Yet another lager coloured refreshing summer ale - not a style normally associated with Scottish breweries, but they have done a pretty reasonable job. Well hopped, but more fruity than bitter. Not too complex, but pleasant easy drinking. Handpump, Crosse Keys, City of London, July 2003.