Flying Scotsman
Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.83
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Full-flavoured ruby beer combing the best of Scottish barley and English hops, profoundly malty in aroma and flavours but balanced with a raisiny spiciness and toasty dryness. Distinctive fresh, slightly citrus tang with a rich finish.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask, half pint, at The Chambers, Gloucester. Brown colour, small off-white head. The aroma has moderate notes of English malt vinegar. The flavour has loads of acidity, with dominant malt vinegar. Clearly "off".
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2015
at 13:53
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask at The Grapes, Liverpool, UK. Pours amber with off-white head. Malty caramel, sweet, hint of hops. Light bodied.
Tried
from Cask
at
Grapes
on 04 Jan 2015
at 16:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Foot of the walk. Pours copper amber, nose and taste are caramel, light fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Oct 2014
at 03:12
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from B&M. Colour is clear and gold with a small white head. Aroma is malt and light caramelish. Bitter, dry and crisp hoppy flavour, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2014
at 12:16
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Clear amber. Dense and persistent off-white head and lacing. Sweet aroma and taste of crystal and amber malt. Not much bitterness. Short aftertaste. A bit waterish mouthfeel.
Tried
on 20 May 2014
at 13:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500 ml. bottle @ home. This is apparently the official Flying Scotsman (I had too look that one up) which sounds a bit funny to me because like how many unofficial beers can there beer for a famous train? This is also the first beer that I see that makes an effort to appeal to trainspotters (beer geeks have been speculated to have evolved from trainspotters in the UK). //// Pours a totally clear dark caramel amber with a small but firm off-white head. Nose is cloying with cheap dark honey and toasted raisin bread with butter (not diacetyl, just raisin bread with butter), this is too sticky. Tastes cloying of mild herbs, liquorish, metals, cheap honey, raisin bread, touch watery kvass, bready,… metallic, herbal kvass aftertaste. Fizzy, faintly watery. Acceptable beer but cloying is like one of the weirdest characteristics for a bitter to have, this is supposed to be a mild style that is lower alcohol and easy to drink in large quantities, something that is cloying and tastes like raisin bread with butter and honey.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2014
at 03:48
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle on the 2nd Friday night is Bottled Beer Night 2014. Bottle from B&M Canterbury. Deepish clear amber colour with lasting off white head. Crappy toffee caramelly aroma. Not diacetyl. Just I don’t like this sweet toffee thing. Just sweet and not my thing at all. Give me a clean fully attenuated lager any day. Nope. Not for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2014
at 14:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bronze, thin head. Slightly spicy aroma w a little bit of caramel. Somewhat watery palate w a little caramel and really not much else.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2014
at 23:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask beer at the Stone Loach Market Deeping. Amber colour with a white head. Aroma of malty and caramel; malty taste with a toasty finish. A malty Scottish beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Feb 2014
at 07:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Hour Glass, High Wycombe. Poured amber-brown with a thick cream head. Malt and caramel from the off, but they’re not too sweet; leafy hops balance, and some lemon comes through afterwards. Mellow, smooth and easy-drinking. Quite a decent autumn ale, better than the similar Greene King Fireside I’d had just before.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2014
at 05:16