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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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aorma and taste are caramel, fruits, notes of cocoa, malt and hops. Nice dry and sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2013
at 09:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, chocolate and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 060413
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2013
at 09:08
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 4%.Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted and toffee. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, toffee, medium sweet, hop and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2013
at 09:08
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle at home ... copper ... thin white head ... soft sweet caramel toffee malt ... that sweet coppered caramel nose ... soft metalic ... sweet malts
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2013
at 10:51
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
What Dogbomb said, only more so. Not my cup of tea, thought the citrus characteristics clashed badly with the maltiness.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2013
at 11:15
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ The Standing Order (JDW), 62-66 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 2LR.Clear medium amber yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale nut peel, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, nutty peel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120423]
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jan 2013
at 08:23
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from York National Railway Museum Shop. Copper amber colour, bubbly white head leaving lots of lacing and malty toffee aroma. Fizzy spicy bitter malt taste with lingering dry bitterness and a slight earthy toasted malt undertaste. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2013
at 09:26
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml Bottle BBD 30 Apr 2013: poured into an Abbot Ale tankard @ home on 30 Dec 2012. Good amber looking beer: full head of off-white foam tops it of nicely. Malts lead the way in the aroma and taste: caramel semi-sweetness with a roasted/toasted unsweetened buicuity feel to the whole thing. Fairly crisp and almost sharp in the mouth: the malts however ensure this is a mostly calm malty brew and Iiked it. I’d have prefered more body depth and alcohol, but as a 4% ABV Bitter I suppose you can’t expect a rich, thick beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 12:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours clear amber with a off White head. Bisquit, phenolic Smoke , grain and caramel. Thin.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2012
at 09:41
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Christian Firtal. Hazy amber with a small white head. Malty aroma with toffee and grain and a faint fruity note. Dry and malty flavour with a grainy touch, and a somewhat unpleasant tannic, possibly roasted dryness, along with a faint hoppy finish
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Dec 2012
at 13:02