Island Life
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.49
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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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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask, half pint. @The Pot Still, Glasgow (Scotland). 11/08/2023 [#6.740 Global - #274 Scotland - #3 Orkney Brewery] Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma: grapefruit, yoghurt and elderberries. Taste: citrus, grapefruit and fresh floral hops. Medium bodied and dry finish. Next one please!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Phoenix, Inverness, 25/02/23. Almost clear golden with a good sized white head ... full glass lacing ensues. Nose is mellow citric zest, soft malts, light breads, melon. Taste comprises orange zest, pale malts, light breads, melon, tangerine. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with mellow hop bitterness. Ok simple cask sessioner.,
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Flasche 0,5l: Kräftiges Gold, glasklar, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; frisch, fruchtig, malzig-fruchtige Süße, helle/eingelegte Früchte, florale/grasige Hopfennoten, kräftig Malz, Getreide, Karamell, etwas Honig, leichte Hefearomen, fruchtig-malzige Bitterkeit; fruchtiger + leicht würziger Körper, trockene Zitrusnoten, Limetten, Limettenabrieb, florale/kräutrige Hopfennoten, Malz, Getreide, spritzig, moderate Kohlensäure, leichte Hefearomen; trocken-fruchtiger Nachgang
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On cask at the Guildford Arms, early March 2023. Appearance - golden with a creamy white head. Pretty clear. Nose - lemon, floral and a bit bready. Taste - lemon, light caramel and bready again. Palate - light bodied, creamy middle, dry and bitter finish. Overall - quite pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
50cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours transparent, amber gold, with fine white foam. Aroma is toffee, malty, caramel. Body is average, with good carbonation. Taste is medium bitter, rather dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours clear golden with a thick white head. Aromas of citrus and cheesecake base. Taste is light bitter. Not quite a jarl clone, but not far off. Peachy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
500 ml bottle, from Gulating Ølutsalg, Stavanger. ABV is 3.7%. Crystal clear golden colour, moderate white head. Disappointing aroma of wort and dust. Light bodied as expected. Citric flavour, with a sharp and slightly metallic bitterness. Very far from Orkney's best ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at The Redgarth Oldmeldrum. It pours crystal clear golden - blonde with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, floral, bright, honeysuckle, honeyed grain, biscuit and a splash of old fashioned lemonade. The taste is firmly dry, nice bitterness, clean, fresh, floral, peppery spice, white grape, elderflower, lemon peel, pithy, zesty, biscuit, cracker and some bread. Finish is firm and dry. Lighter end of medium body and soft, but lively carbonation. One of those beers that really shines in good condition on cask. Lovely
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Tesco. Clear golden body with a white head. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of orange rind and straw. Flavour of grass, grain and grapefruit. Thin to medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. A lovely beer.