Speyside Oak Aged Blonde Ale
Belhaven in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.34
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Smooth and malty, warming and well rounded golden ale with sweet vanilla, oak and subtle whisky notes. Brewed with Speyside malt whisky in lightly toasted oak.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
It is a really sweet ale, a good one for the spring or autumm. The taste is malty, vanilla, side of oak, few hop, 05.07.2017, drinking it at Prélaz, Lausanne, buying it at the closed shop Grain d'Orges, Crissier
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2025
at 12:05
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Clear orange pour, small white head. Aroma is odd. Wet paper, and apples with hints if pale malts and sweet apple skins. Soft mouth feel, slightly watery mouth feel. Finish is very buttery with alot of buttery scotch barrel, and vanilla with fruit and alot of apples. This is a wreck.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:10
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is sweetish malt, butter, mild vanilla, apple juice and sugar. Flavour is medium sugary sweet and light bitter. Body is medium with a mildly sticky texture. I don’t much care for this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2025
at 04:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating - 330ml bottle, pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of dried fruits, vanilla, caramel & malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2025
at 04:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 0,33 ltr: Clear orange colored brew with an velvet sweet bitter taste, hints of honey, vanilla, oak and the touch of Speyside.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:16
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. Goldeny amber colour, small white head. Aroma has some diacetyl, mild toffee, some floral and wooden notes. Flavour is floral, some diacetyl, toffee and mild herbal and grassy notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2023
at 15:47
7/10
Schmeckt mir gut, fast schon belgische Süsse, das Fass kommt deutlich raus, die Vanillenoten sind rund und stören nicht.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2021
at 20:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours clear gold with a small off-white head. Aroma is wood, whisky and vanilla. Taste is medium sweet, malt, vanilla, whisky, caramel, some woodiness too. Light sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2020
at 18:23
6.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2020
at 00:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Blonde, Floral aroma with soft whiksy notes. Malty sweet floral flavor with a hint of citrus, Cake. Hint of whisky, This beer didn’t last long on the barrel. Vanilla. Nice and well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:05