Sunset
Isle of Arran Brewery in Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.23
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Clockwork. It pours clear amber with a small white head. The nose is toasty, grain, bread, stone fruit and cereal. The taste is bitter, citrus, grainy, stone fruit, caramel, grapefruit skin and florals with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty quaffable stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Jul 2014
at 05:30
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Very hazy, light floral hop character, with slightly biscuity malt character like warm bread. Decent if a little dull.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2014
at 23:59
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle at home. Clear amber pour, thin, quickly passing white head. Big bubbles. Aromas are malty, not much else, just malty biscuits. Taste has a little bitterness, but mostly just malty sweetness. Didn’t really like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2013
at 13:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber colour with a creamy off-white head with good duration and nice lacing. Aroma is earthy with floral hops. Flavor is light bittery, some floral notes, very light caramel and toasted malts. Dry final with a light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2013
at 13:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Fizzy golden beer with a thick foamy head. Light hoppy aroma. Sharp, bitter flavour of hop and malt with a very dry finish. Not bad but unmemorable.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2013
at 13:44
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask @ Golden Rule, Polwarth 040912
Amber, clear, dense white head, good head retention and some lacing
Aroma - Apricot, fruity malts, cereal, slight sourness
Taste as aroma, fruity apricot golden malts, light honey, soft cereal
Palate - thin to medium body, bit oily. Finish as main flavour again with slight metaliic linger
Overall - Bog standard bitter
Amber, clear, dense white head, good head retention and some lacing
Aroma - Apricot, fruity malts, cereal, slight sourness
Taste as aroma, fruity apricot golden malts, light honey, soft cereal
Palate - thin to medium body, bit oily. Finish as main flavour again with slight metaliic linger
Overall - Bog standard bitter
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Sep 2012
at 07:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, gift from Mum. Hazy, golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of peach, herbs and earth. Flavour of earth, honey and pear. Thin body with a slick texture. Light fizz. A solid, reliable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2012
at 14:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tall brown 500ml bottle: best before 31 Oct 2012, poured into my Abbot Ale glass tankard early Mar 2012. Pale amber, light copper in colour, bright and clean looking. The head looked good for 20 seconds, it then started to shrink and within a minute it has retreated to a collar and wispy covering: pity. The aroma was a heady mix of yeasts and hops with a mild malty undertone. The taste leans towards hops, especially initially. The malted wheat and barley appear mid-mouthfull, preventing the hop bitterness completely taking over the flavours. Different and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2012
at 05:29
6.5/10
18/8/2011. Cask at Isaacs on the Quay Beer Festival, Ipswich.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Aug 2011
at 23:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. Orange fruit and caramel aroma. Flavour of sweet biscuit malts, summer fruits and grassy hops leading to a short, bitter finish. Ok, but not memorable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2010
at 03:44