Highland Ale (Limited Edition)
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Special Out of Production|
Score
6.74
|
|
It takes experience and lots of sampling, to know when the beer has achieved the perfect point in terms of flavour, complexity and balance and is ready for bottling. Innis & Gunn Highland Ale perfectly demonstrates all these factors at work and is one we’re particularly proud to put our name to. Following the lengthy time it’s spent mellowing over oak, the beer has developed a fragrant aroma of spice and rich toffee. The wood has also imparted notes of heather-honey, raisins and marzipan, making for a beautifully-balanced, complex ale, capped with a deeply smooth finish.
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle split at Craft Beer Junction, thanks to LKS 18/10/23. Chestnut brown with a beige cap that thins to a swirl. Nose is dried fruit rinds, herb, biscuit, toffee. Taste comprises figs, dates, caramel, dark malts, light spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Fine for the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at CBJ / picked up in the US, Julio’s I think. Pours clear copper-amber with a foamy, off-white head. Medium sweet flavour with mild oxidation, toasted mats, biscuits, caramel, vanilla, toffee, golden raisins. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, more toasted bread, dry honey, caramel. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
18th October 2023
Bottle share at CBJ. Thanks to LKS. Almost clear amber beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Thinnish malts, a thin creamy sweetness. Bags of I&G vanilla oak. Light fruity whiskey. Light crisp finish. Good stuff in the I&G style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A clear copper brown coloured pour with a loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, raw oak, vanilla, grape, booze. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, raw oak, jammy grape, raw oak, raisin, vanilla, some age.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
7.4% is the bottle i drank, not sure if this is the correct entry. Well, my dad got fooled by the fancy bottle, he bought this. Plus, I can’t figure out which entry this really is. Here goes nothing. Malt syrup aroma and light vegetal aspects. Flavor is light sweet malt syrup, tea biscuit, and a sense of Brexit. An ESA in a fancy bottle with not much of anything interesting. But I knew that going in.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Dobbies Garden Centre, Peterborough. Amber with a thin beige head and a light but prickly fizz. Usually I&G toffee and woody up front, possibly more dry wood and less vanilla than normal. Booze is evident but not overwhelming, and you can taste the whisky too - ot’s quite a heady brew. It’s surprisingly fruity - strawberries and blackberries - with a lot of sweet bubblegum and marzipan. Definitely on the sweet side, and the dry wood isn’t quite enough to balance it. I still enjoyed it (as I do with most I&G beers), but they’ve done much better than this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Poured from 330mL bottle. Clear copper brown with dissipating off white head. Usual I&G nose, mild scotch characteristics comes through. Taste is a little lighter than usual, slightly watery. Some subtle smoke comes through from the scotch.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Pours a clear, cherry brown with a large, long lasting, off-white head that laces. Sweet aroma of vanilla, caramel, oak, spice and a light scotch note. Sweet caramel flavour with vanilla, honey, oak, light scotch and a smooth, mildly spicy finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Nice. Well balanced.