Wildcat
Cairngorm Brewery in Aviemore, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.37
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Deep amber in colour with a complex malt and fruit flavour and a delicate bitterness from Challenger and Fuggles hops. Strong and Distinctive.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Subtle wood aromas, nice and smooth, with less than obvious chocolate and caramel flavourings.
Tried
on 29 Feb 2012
at 05:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle in 1780 restaurant. Pours amber with a nicely proportioned head. The nose has fudge which then develops into millionaire shortbread. The taste has more of this millionaire shortbread. The palate has good ’length and girth’ my friends have just told me. Seriouisly though, medium to large in structure with a creamy texture that leads into a creamy dry finish. Overall, a good beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2011
at 04:12
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 251211
Tried
on 26 Dec 2011
at 12:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Prince of Wales, Aberdeen. It pours clear deep amber, with a small off-white head. The nose is wood, spice, milk chocolate and brown bread. The taste is varnish, wood, dark berry, light spice, leather, smoke and milk chocolate, with a dry, woody finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and good balance. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2011
at 05:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark amber with a beige head. Aroma of toffee, pears, flowers. Taste is moderately sweet with toasted toffee, pear, dried fruit, spices. Carbonation fails to quite hide slightly dead mouthfeel, but it’s not too bad. Lingering fruity hops at the end. Shame about the mouthfeel, but the toffee and fruit flavours have some depth and the sweetness is nicely cleaned up at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2011
at 04:40
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@Market Porter. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is grass, herbs, some bready malts as well as some mild leathery notes. Flavour s fruity and floral hops along with some grass and maltyness. Rather bitter in the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2011
at 01:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Clear amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, bit of fruits. Flavour is caramel malts, fruits, bit of toffee. Slightly bitter and dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2011
at 07:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Bon Accord, Glasgow 8/06/2011. Medium brown with a decent, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and bready malt notes, with a touch of fruit and bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jun 2011
at 02:39
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Dobbies garden centre in Ashford. Chestnut colour, clear, thin beige head. Toffeeish bitter. To be honset I’m not that impressed. Just some buttery toffee and that’s about it. God I detest pasteurised bottled beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2011
at 12:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Brought back for me by a friend and rated June 2009. Pours a beautiful clean copper colour, with a beige head that has good retention, and leaves great dirty lace and coats the brew. Tiny bubble carbonation with some bigger bubbles stuck to the side of the glass. Grainy nose, with some nice sweet malt, caramel, notes of molasse, burnt malt and dark fruits. The mouthfeel and flavour are laking though (after having some great aromas). Taste of watered-down caramel, fruits, and bread in the aftertaste. Still, a very good bitter that is more refreshing than punchy.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2011
at 22:03