Skull Splitter (Bottle)
(Batch of Skull Splitter)
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.02
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A rich fruity wine-like complexity on the palate includes fresh and dried fruits, warm exotic spice and light summer citrus fruits. Sophisticated, satiny smooth with a deceptively light character.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Old rating from 14-06-15 - 330ml bottle from Dunell's in Jersey. Pours brown with a off white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of toffee, dark fruits, herbs, banana & a fair amount of alcohol. Medium body. Sweet moderate bitter finish. I didn't enjoy this at all & it was hard to finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2025
at 10:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. I can’t believe this is listed as a barley wine cause it tastes more like a bock to me, Pours a reddish brown. Aroma is caramel and syrup. Very light in the mouth, a bit of a hops kick and some carbonation. Pretty durned good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. I would have classified this as a "Wee Heavy", but anyway a very tasty beer. Love the dark color and the aroma has a pleasant "comfortable" smell about it. Highly recommended and would have again and again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sharp cereal malts, lots of caramel, dark fruit and soft charry notes with a hint of grassy hops in the finsh. Good carbonation, and a perfect mouth feel. To me though, this leans closer to an english style barley wine.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Аромат солодовый, очень пряный, яркие нотки от меда и патоки с карамелью. Немного перчика как будто, цветочность. Цвет странный, темно коричневый наверно. Пенка средняя, весьма скудная, но держится легко. Вкус классический для стиля разве что, при глотке горчинка сильнее. Ощущается снова много солода и специй он нее. Уже больше меда чем патоки. Карамель есть, но не сильная. Горчинка неплохая при глотке, весьма длительная. В целом хороший образец.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2025
at 11:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe, online. Pours a murky amber-brown, with small beige head. Aroma is sweet and boozy with notes of sherry, fruitcake, oak, toffee. Taste is malty with caramel and toffee, sherry, wood, dried fruits, booze. Medium to full bodied Heady stuff, I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:22
6/10
0,33 litre Bottle, gifted to me, at home. Cloudy amber with offwhite head. Malts, hops, yeast, booze, some Caramel sweetness, some herbal bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2024
at 20:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
11.2oz bottle. Seems pretty old, in bad shape. Loads of floaties in the murky brown-gray body. Thin off-white head rims the glass. Malty, sweet, no hop tone in sight. True, classic Scotch Ale for sure, but not my favorite example. Pleasant malt tones. Clean for the ABV. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2024
at 04:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours a beautiful reddish brown, fairly transparent, with fine pinkish foam. Aroma is markedly malty, caramel, maybe even molasses. Body is somehow dense, with average carbonation. Taste is rather sweet. What is nice as aroma becomes excessive in taste. Final is average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2023
at 19:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Missed review from 19.2.2016. Malt & sugar & autumnal aromas - spicy Off white head head - tight & creamy stayed well on I very dark brown body. Very rich malt tastes of spices, brown sugar & coffee. What let's this beer down is the really thin body - a real problem I think.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2022
at 19:30