Island Life
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.49
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In creating and naming Island Life, we wanted to reflect how great a place Orkney is to live, something that’s regularly highlighted in national surveys. This is a very special beer, just like the islands, and we also hope it’ll perform a great ambassadorial role, helping reinforce Orkney’s worldwide reputation for outstanding food and drink.”
Island Life had been brewed with Citra, Cascade, and El Dorado hops from the US. These offer superb strength of flavour, all wrapped up in a light body of pale malt with a relatively low strength. There are mouth-watering flavours of grapefruit and peach, which lead to a crisp, bitter, zesty finish, to be enjoyed time and time again.
Island Life had been brewed with Citra, Cascade, and El Dorado hops from the US. These offer superb strength of flavour, all wrapped up in a light body of pale malt with a relatively low strength. There are mouth-watering flavours of grapefruit and peach, which lead to a crisp, bitter, zesty finish, to be enjoyed time and time again.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Casknat hw beer festival. Pours clear golden, nose is lemon, orange, toffee, taste is zesty, sweet, grassy. 7/7/6/6/6
Tried
on 02 May 2026
at 13:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Clear golden, mid sized head. Aroma of xitrus, hay and apples. Mid dry with light body and cridp, rounfed mouthfeel. Slender bread, leaves, citrus and apples. Mid bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 16:57
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle at home with barbecue, 11th May 2025. Pours clear straw colour. Atoma is citrus, bright. Taste is citrus, a little bitter and aromatic. Pretty drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2025
at 19:41
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Van tap bij Cumberland Bar in Edinburgh gedeeld. Citrus, hoppig, carameltonen, bitters, grapefruit, wat droog. (10-5-2025).
Tried
from Draft
at
Cumberland Bar
on 10 May 2025
at 13:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Humle, malt, anelse smør.
Smak: Humle, malt, smørmalt.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Medium: Rating:8-5-5-8-5=5.8, Flaske@500ml, ABV@3,5%, Når@17.01.2025.
Hvor: Kjøpt@Vaaland, Bryne, Nydt@Hjemme.
Island Life Session IPA
IPA - SESSION
Lukt: Humle, malt, anelse smør.
Smak: Humle, malt, smørmalt.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Medium: Rating:8-5-5-8-5=5.8, Flaske@500ml, ABV@3,5%, Når@17.01.2025.
Hvor: Kjøpt@Vaaland, Bryne, Nydt@Hjemme.
Island Life Session IPA
IPA - SESSION
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2025
at 12:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Fell Bar, Penrith. Lightly hazed gold with a white head. Floral, with lemon and a slightly chalky note. Thin, moderately bitter and quite dry. Decent as a lightweight refresher.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Sep 2024
at 22:34
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2024
at 08:40
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Thomson’s Bar together with Craig, middle April 24. Lightly lemonny, herbal nose, doughy malt. Pale hazy offwhite cream. A bit chew, slightly mealy, a bit umami. Citrus tealike finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Apr 2024
at 14:06
6/10
cask at Thompsons ..mgolden yellow m thin white lacing ..soft pithy herbal fruit ..soft fruit
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2024
at 17:36
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Rocky white head left a froth on an unclear pale golden coloured body. Bitter, pine & resinous aroma. Medium bodied, sharp, gassy & cloying. Pale malt, caramel, bitter, zesty & citrus tastes. Nice Quaffer.
Tried
on 29 Feb 2024
at 20:50