Northern Light
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.86
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Citrus flavours combine with hints of fresh bread: giving way to spice, citrus and apricot hoppiness. It has a delicious crisp hop character without being overly aggressive. Perfectly refreshing.
Hops: Perle, Hersbrucker, Saaz
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Malted Wheat
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Old rating from 04-05-15 - 500ml bottle, pours see through golden with white head. Aromas & tastes of sulphur, citrus, lemon & hops. Moderate body. Light bitter finish. Disapointing
RB score 2.95
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Cask at Borough Arms, Crewe. Pours golden yellow with a medium sized foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s floral hops and citrus in the aroma. In the mouth it is quite sweet but with an underlying unpleasant taste that I can’t put my finger on. Flavour has malts, citrus, mango and grapefruit with hints of melon and tropical fruit coming through later leading to a somewhat dry finish. This is OK, but a bit “meh”.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask handpull at Nelson Arms Tonbridge. Clear gold colour lasting white head. OK golden als. Some citrus some straw. Light bitterness. Pretty ordinary. Touch of diacetyl maybe.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at Guildford Arms, Edinburgh, Pours clear golden with a white cap. Aroma: bready malts, caramel & lemon hints. Taste: moderate sweet & light to moderate bitter, pale malts, lemon hints, light grassy. Light bodied with soft carbonation. OK
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
500 ml bottle. Pours a bright clear amber with moderate head. Aromas of earthy toasted malts and fresh bread. Flavors of sweet fluffy malts with a little fruitiness.
10/02/1999. COUNTING HOUSE, 2 St. Vincent Place, GLASGOW, Strathclyde, Scotland (WETHERSPOONS)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours slightly reddish gold, clear transparent, with pretty fine white foam. Aroma is malty and earthy, some caramel. Body and carbonation are average, but actually with quite a mouthful. Taste is medium-high bitter, continuing also in the final.
