Puffin
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.80
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Puffin is a burnished bronze beer with aromas of spices, sweet nutty malt and dark fruits. An inviting rich malt palate is balanced with notes of herbs and spicy fruitiness.
Hops: Bramling Cross, Targert
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Malted Wheat
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, courtesy of Jeremy! Pours clear amber, small off-white head. Aroma soft nutty malts. Taste is light on the palate, soft nutty malts, very light bitterness, caramel glimpses. Quaffable tawny ale this.
0,5l bottle @ the Pierowall Hotel, Westray. Very good and very tawny ale and bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared with TO and ED at TO's 16.09.17. Clear dak chestnut colour. Off-white head and lacing. Fine and fruity aroma of medium dark malt, noble hops, grass and roasted nuts. Good and lasting aftertaste.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500 ml bottle, from Coop Mega Kleppe. ABV is 4.5%. Beautiful clear copper colour, large to moderate head, slightly off-white. Aroma according to the commercial description: "sweet nutty malt, cedarwood and dark fruits" - I agree! Flavour / "on the palate": again referring to the commercial description: "Rich nutty malt, sweet smooth blackcurrant and lemon mousse leading to blackcurrant leaf and wood notes with a dry woody, spicy nutmeg finish." I agree again! - but I am not too happy with the woody part. Still a fairly decent beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Roms (JDW), Bristol March 2015. Pale amber with a decent, white, head. Rich, malty sweetness, with marmalade notes, some green herbs and a hint of pine, before a dryish finish. Pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Pump House, Shirley. Poured a clear medium amber with a long lasting frothy white head. The aroma is light malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a light woody, nutty hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW). Reading. Amber with a lasting off-white head. Orangey citrus up front then a bit of creamy caramel. Some mild herbs. On the watery side- after a decent start it dies a bit. Mildly bitter, dry finish. Bit disappointing after the excellent Nottingham Salsa I’d had just before but it’s OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Willow Walk, JDW - London. Pours clear gold with a frothy white head. Pale bread in the nose, some rindy citrus, toasted grains, hay. Light to medium sweet flavor with some very nice, citrusy hops, mild grassy bitterness, pale bready malts, hay, faint leaves. Light bodied within me carnonation; great condition. Well balanced on British with some lightly toasted pale malts, bread, more citrusy hops, some bitter rind and grass, mellow earth. A very solid bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Prince Arthur (JDW), Fleet. Bright amber with a tight cream head; orangey citrus aroma; nutty malt taste, with a fresh spicy herbal bitterness; and a lingering orange marmalade finish. Rather good.