Wilder Ness - Hoppy Amber Ale
Loch Ness Brewery in Drumnadrochit, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.80
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Our FIRST ale!
A crisp copper coloured ale with a malt nose and a well rounded bitter finish.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, taste is light and crisp, dry finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of WilderNess Hoppy Amber Ale on 02 Apr 2013 at 19:19 - Score: 6. Original review text: Bottle. Light and crisp, dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Cask @ Northern Taps, Huddersfield. Deep copper-amber with small creamy head. Has plenty of good tasting malt with a medium to high bitterness. Nice and crisp.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On cask at Salmon Inn, Galashiels - Hazy amber body, thick white head. Rich fruity nose with tropical fruits, peaches and grapefruit. Taste is caramel, with that fruitiness of peach and grapefruit kicking in to give a slightly bitter finish. A nice and pleasant surprise!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
500ml Bottle - Melon, peach and grapefruit in the aroma. Hoppy and ever so slightly sweet taste with notes of peach, grapefruit, toffee and melon. Tasty and refreshing with plenty of flavour for the strength.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reddish-amber. Spicy-hoppy aroma w lots of toffee and crystal malts. Really nice, complex but light and drinkable as well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle shared with jeevan. Pours clear amber, thin white head, steady bubbles. Quite good hop aromas, more than I was expecting, but less than I might like. Some tropical fruit and pine. Solid malt backbone, which is what you want in a beer this strength to avoid it being too thin. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at The Old Bell Inn and bottle from Aldi. Clear amber body with a thin off-white head. Good lacing. Aroma of grapefruit, wood, mango and caramel. Flavour is very similar to the aroma – tropical fruit with a sharp grapefruit flavour. Thin body with an oily mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. A very juicy Bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap @ the Haymarket Bar. This was a solid bitter, true to its style if just a little on the light side. Expected biscuits and toffee were there.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Hazy amber, coarse head. Fruity nose with some tropical fruits. Mid sweet with light-medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Notes of caramel, a weath of peach and grapefruit. Mid bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Tomlinsons, Inverness. It pours clear amber with a thick beige head. The nose is wood, earth, toffee, light toast, apricot and peach. The taste is earth, wood, leather, decent bitterness, toast, light spice and a touch of citrus with a set finish. Medium body and fine-moderate carbonation. Good balance. Nothing particularly exciting, but a solid bitterness nonetheless.