Orkney Raven Ale (Cask)

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

Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A slightly hazy golden beer with a beige head. The aroma is malty with notes of hops and hay. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw, earth, straw, and hops, leading to a dru bitter finish.

From cask at Charlies. Pours clear and golden orange. Light fruity and slight yeasty. Dry bitter, orange fruity and slight yeasty flavoured. Grassy touch. Bitter orange fruity and acidic finish.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, toffee, light to moderate hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090806]

Cask@GBBF2009. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is hops, earth, bready notes as well as quite much toffee and earth. Flavour is fruits, wood, nectar and mild honeyish notes as well. Grassy/hayish finish.

Cask Stillage at the Community Centre, Frodsham 25/05/2001 Golden coloured and pale. Mellow hop finish.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Golden color, small white head, some lace. Sticky aroma of wet socks and hops. Light palate. Sweet malts, hayish hops. Nothing to rave about.

And so my serch goes on to discover wither orkney beers are better bottled to cask. Aroma seems a little bland but orkney character hops. Taste is typically orkney with thier smokey malts having just a little say. Iv very suprised we got this in he week before xmas i was sure it was a summer beer.

Light hazy, pale orange colour with a small white head. Malty, fruity and hoppy floral aroma. malty, light smoky flavor with a hoppy floral and bitter finish.