Orkney Skull Splitter (Cask)

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

Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A dark amber beer with a thin rim of tan head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of caramel and lesser notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with alcohol tickling the tongue and the palate combined with strong notes of caramel. A good warming beer on a cold winter night.

From cask at Charlies. Pours deep orange, clear, and with a white head. Aroma is light fruity and solid caramel maty. Flavour is mild caramel, light fruity and sweet. Ends with alcohol presence and a lingering malty note.

Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Unclear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, english licorice. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is flat. (190108)

1. Cask Stillage at the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt, Liverpool 22/02/2001 Dark coloured and very strong. Smooth on the palate. 2. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 24/12/2001 Dark with a reddish hue. Strong in alcohol and fruity. Warming finish. 3. Cask Handpump at the Bon Accord, Glasgow 01/12/2007 Strong fruity aroma. Mid brown coloured strong in alcohol slightly sweet and rich on the palate. Crisp and bitter lasting malt finish.

Cask handpull at White Horse, Parson’s Green. Chestnut colour with thin beige head. Great sweet malt. Some appley woody texture. Good candy sugar. Very nice. Best example I’ve ahd of this beer. Very drinkable.

Cask @ The Wharf, Aalborg. Nice clear deep amber colour with a good lasting beige head. The aroma is sweet with dark fruits and toasted malt. The flavour is sweet with dark fruits, alcohol, bitter hops and malt.

Aroma is lightly smokey peaty malts, quite a bit of sweetness, grassy floural honey i assume from some sort of hop character. Taste is similarly complex and sweet but increadibly drinkable, like 2 pints out of a plastic jug drinkable!

Cask@Kingston Beer festival. This was the last beer of the night, and it just put me over the edge, heavy, malty sweetness, peaty, slightly rubbery texture. Lightly roasted/smoky flavour. Pretty heavy going, but quite tasty.