Muckle IPA
Swannay Brewery in Swannay, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.96
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jamestulloch (9548) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Keg and can. Deep golden body with a slight haze and a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Light lacing. Aroma of orange marmalade, heather honey and roasted malts. Flavour of orange pith, lime zest, marmalade, pine needles and fig roll. Medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. A stunning, hoppy beer with a bitingly bitter finish.
Saintmatty (11245) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught (Pleased To Meet You, Newcastle) - Amber in colour. Peach, syrup, toffee and apricot in the aroma. Fruity and slightly tart taste with peach, toffee, apricot and a hint of mango.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at the Vintage. Pours golden amber, nose is light peach, taste is bitter, sweet fruit.
Scopey (25061) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at the Lyric. It pours clear orange-amber with a medium white head. The nose is earthy, resin, peach, mango and apricot. The taste is crisp, bitter orange, sherbet, minerals, light alcohol, straw, peppery, grapefruit and some passion fruit with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body and prickly carbonation. Clean, crisp and very well balanced. Very nice indeed.
cagarvie (39800) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Keg at the Stockbridge tap... Golden amber... Thin white lacing... Soft fruit... Little peachy nose.... Soft zezty fruits... Juicy fruits... Floral fruits... Soft zezty fruits juicy and very drinkable
McCash (15986) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On keg @ the Stockbridge Tap. Highland’s first keg beer. Appearance - golden carbonated and a thin head. Nose - somewhere between oranges and grapefruit, maybe blood orange is closer than pink grapefruit. Taste - definitely oranges, perhaps burnt Seville oranges. It tastes like there has been a lot of late-hopping here. Palate - light to medium bodied with a tangy texture and a long dry finish. However, some sweetness does return. Overall - Lewis, this is very good, it’s also distinctly different than your cask beers, without the big yeast influence you get in cask beer, the hops are fruitier rather than green and floral. To be slightly controversial, it’s probably less ’Highland’. I also think you could up the IBUs in this one, to counteract the extra alcohol sweetness. Then it would be dangerously drinkable. I didn’t take the advice of taking a half pint, it seemed wrong.
allmyvinyl (20966) reviewed Muckle IPA from Swannay Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at Holyrood 9A. Pours a clear orange-amber with a good white head. Big hop aromas, orange, pine. Some caramel in the background. Taste has lots more orange bitterness, and some malt sweet for balance, but just edges towards too much orangey bitterness. A minor quibble though, in an otherwise very nice beer.