Orkney Red MacGregor (Bottle)

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

A red beer with a beutiful head. The nose is primarily malty sweet. The flavor is also malty sweet from a good malty blend.

(Bottle 50 cl) A beer that doesn’t promise too much - this is red indeed. Beautiful reddish brown, filtered with a small and vaguely light brown head. Very soft, almost sweetish with pronounced malty notes and a very limited bitterness. Some smoke in there too. Nice. 040904

Bottled. Copper colour, rich, lasting head. Some grassy hops along with peat up front. Light-medium bodied with rich, buttery, peaty malt flavour. Medium bitterness.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a dense off-white head. Hoppy and light wineous to woody aroma. Dry hops flavour. Light liqourice bite, mild woody note and light fruity into the finish. Light roasted malt into the far finish.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, smoke notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (180508)

Bottled. Dark amber colour, mediumsized beige bubbly head. Hops and fruit in aroma. Strong ryebreadish malty and hoppy flavour with hints of fruit. Long ryebreadish aftertaste. A bit mouthdrying.

Bottled. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of pine needles, malts and hops. Flavour of malts, pine needles and hops.

Well, I’ll mention the peat flavour. It’s there, in Lowland quantities mind you. Otherwise, bright auburn; aroma like a dense forest of Douglas fir, meat pie and Auchentoshan; a little thin & metallic though (has it gone off a bit?); earthy malts, touch of toasted caramel. Finishes to quickly.