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Orkney Raven Ale (Bottle)

Percentile
54
overall
Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Bitter

Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
703.11/5.03.08/5.03.8%78.5English pint
Commercial Description:
Ratings for the bottled version only go here.
"A golden coloured ale with an intense grainy nose, rich and fruity on the palate with a lingering hint of hop in the finish."
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 Nekronos (2265), Xalapa, Mexico
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Nov 23, 2005    Updated: Feb 12, 2006
Very good, endeed, althoguh is not my style, but I have to recognize it is a good beer, a good effort from The Orkney Brewery that did not give me bad beers at all, the flavor is a little tiring if you have had some beers before, but the hoppy flavor is great, the foam good.


 Emil (6074), Copenhagen, Denmark
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/510/20
Nov 7, 2005  
Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Caramel malty, hoppy aroma and a sweet vineger, fruity taste. Medium body and a dry finish.


 joergen (8610), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 30, 2005  
Bottled. Clear amber coloured with a small white head. Aroma of fruits, malts, caramel and hops. Flavour of fruits, caramel and hops with notes of pine needles.


 imdownthepub (5145), Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 13, 2005  
Bottled, filtered, 500ml. Copper coloured beer with lasting head. Easy smooth beer, initially silky but with a decent enough bitterness on the finish. The malt dominates though with a little smokey note in the body. Reasonable bottled beer. Many thanks to JT for this.


 harrisoni (6800), Ashford, Kent, England
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jul 8, 2005  
Cask at Dr Duncan’s, Liverpool Had this on the back of the Dark Island, but this was not as good. Light brown in colour with hoppy malty nose smooth in mouth with hoppy bitter finish


 TBone (6788), Pori, Finland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jul 3, 2005  
Bottled (BB 11/2005)
Reddish-copper color, small tanned head, nice "creamy" lacing. Aroma has red currant, barley and hints of smoke. Quite ok for this low ABV: medium-bodied, woody flavor with fruity bitter hops - they linger in the aftertaste nicely.


 scotty (832), Scotland
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
May 18, 2005  
Picked this up in Safeway( soon to be Morrisons) in Hawick...Raven Ale...doesn’t that suggest a big brooding very dark stout or old ale...WRONG! This is a lovely bright gold/copper colour with a good firm white head. A mouthwatering fresh fruity hop nose with sweet malt lurking in the background. Good mouthfeel, smooth with LOTS of hoppy fruit, that sweet malt creeps in on the long lasting finish...loved it! Good strength for a few bottles, who cares about the name? Can’t understand the poor overall rating, but there you go, we can’t all have the same opinion, can we?


 Papsoe (14996), Frederiksberg, Denmark
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/103/512/20
May 17, 2005    Updated: Jul 3, 2005
(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful fully golden - almost bronze. Not much head though. Very aromatic from the hops with a pronounced bitterness. Another fine example of a low alcohol beer with lots of flavour. 161004



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