Orkney Skull Splitter (Bottle)

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

Shared a 330ml bottle with MereLikesBeer. This stuff was pretty tasty. Had a great raisin/plum flavor note, but the the aroma was quite subtle. The lack of hop character was this beers’ only flaw. Cheers!

Poured from a 12oz. bottle into a stemmed glass. The color is a dark brown or black with a dark cherry or maroon hue when held to the light. Has a slight brownish white head. The smell is a bit heavy with caramel and some dark fruit flavor, some raspberry flavor. The taste is of a sweet malty flavor with some raisin flavor and a bit of a spicy, smokey flavor. A hint of caramel and some slight grape flavor. The feel has a nice medium body and is nicely carbonated. A real nice finish.

1/30/2008: Orkney Skull Splitter has a sweet, caramelized malt aroma and a strong, creamy caramel, yeasy, and toast flavor. It also has a slight alcohol burn to it and a balancing bitterness in the finish. The beer is a clear dark copper color with a lasting, dense beige-colored head that provids average lacing. It also has a medium-full body and a creamy texture.

11.2 fl. oz. bottle (alc. 8.5% vol.) shared by Tmoney99. Thanks Tom! Rating #939 for this beer.

0,33 l bottle, ordered from Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam. Nice appearance with a dark copper-reddish body, a delicious, medium creamy tan head. Toasty caramel, sweet malt, fine fruity(raisins, some fig, pear)character and herbal hop in the nose with a bit of spicyness. Rich and oily body with a fruity flavor of raisins and figs, fine toasty maltiness and caramell, strong but well balanced hop- bitterness. Fine and preferable beer!

Poured clear light brown with 3-finger head. The aroma was sweet and malty with slight hoppiness. The flavor was big with logs of maltiness and a good hop bitterness. There was a thick and grainy palate. Alcohol comes through a little. Overall a good, big beer, nothing great but a solid barley wine.

Sarà che non è tanto il mio genere, sarà che non ha poi tutto sto carattere, ok posso capire "vinous noise" (che poi è più alcolico che altro); ma l’ho trovata tutt’altro che ’dangerously drinkable’, anzi hai voglia a mandarla giù tutta quanta.

Bottle. Heavy malt aromas of dark bread and caramel, moderate hops of cooked orange, light dough for the yeast and raisin, date and brown sugar in the background. Head is frothy, off-white, with fair spotty lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is hazy red/brown. Flavor starts heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet, acidic and bitter. Palate is medium, oily with a soft carbonation. Smelled good, but the flavor lacked depth in some spots that make a Barley Wine distinct. It was still as good drinker.

330 ml bottle from Market of Choice. Pours a clear mahogany with a small biscuit head and pretty good lacing. Aroma is sweet caramel malt with raisin, fig and light candy sugar. Flavor is very sweet, caramel, raisins and sugar maybe a little toffee. Mouthfeel very creamy, and the 8.5% alcohol is barely noticable. Solid brew.