Clootie Dumpling
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.17
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A light tawny beer which has a soft rounded palate flavoured with seasonal spices.
Hops: Bramling Gold, First Gold, Fuggles
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Chocolate, Malted Wheat
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Falcon (JDW). Amber with a white head. Sweet and fruity with raisins and blackcurrant and cloves and nutmeg. Maybe a tad medicinal but the hint of bitterness in the background is just enough to hold it together. Definitely a pudding beer though, which I guess is appropriate given the name. It's reasonable, a little better than the Elgood's Christmas one I'd had just before.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask-conditioned, at the Berkeley (JDW), Bristol 28/11/22. Amber in colour with a slight, off-white, head. A touch of sweetness, some leafy hop, digestive malts, before some ginger and cinnamon spice and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours a beautiful red copper, transparent, with fine whitish foam. Aroma is malty, spiced. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is moderately sweet and with good bitterness, especially in the final.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, backlog April 2014. Clear golden body under a small off-white head. Strong aroma, rich malt, ginger, cardamom and hint of cloves. Taste is rather sweet and malty with lots of Christmas spices as found in aroma. Some fruitiness, low bitterness with a soft finish even as quite heavy on the spicy side. Medium body. Not exactly what I consider a balanced beer, but as a spicy ale in the direction of a Christmas pudding as the name indicates it’s more than less exactly as expected. And of course absolutly anything else than an ordinary beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from Lidl. Clear amber with a frothy of white head. Aroma is toffee, orange, Christmas spice. Flavour is slightly cloying sweetness, more of that orange and spice
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500 ml bottle, from Gulating Ølutsalg, Stavanger. ABV is 4.3%. I've had clootie dumplings (the pudding, that is) the last couple Christmases, my family finds them more palatable than the traditional English Christmas puddings. But a beer tasting of clootie dumplings, hmm? Clear copper colour, moderate off-white head. Nice aroma of malts and mild Christmas spices. Flavour of malts, toffee and distinct Christmas spices, with an unexpectedly distinct and sharp hop bitterness in the finish. Might buy again for Christmas, or brew a homebrew similar to this.
Bottle from Orkney Brewery. Pours a chestnut colour with a thin white head. Very low carbonation. Aroma of caramel, toffee, some spice. Taste is also spicy, quite smooth with a very slight citrus bitterness. I can just about detect the subtle hints of cinnamon and ginger. Not great but pleasant enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Mooch tasting at Matt's (Dec 2016)
Clean amber color. Candies, artificial aroma, vegetables flavor, medium dry, bread. Messy and unpleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
11/8/2018. Bottle from Beers of Europe, Kings Lynn. Pours amber with a lasting semi-foamy off-white head. Aroma of toffee, malt, herbs, heather, spices, flowers and fruit cake. Medium sweetness, moderate earthy bitterness. Moderate body, oily and watery texture, average carbonation.