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Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.83
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can direct from Orkney brewery. It pours clear golden with a small, fluffy white head. The aroma is soft, sweetish, floral, zingy citrus, pithy, splash of lemonade, grain and biscuity malt. The taste is fairly crisp, dry, snappy, bitterness, pithy, zesty, lemon, grapefruit, floral accents and biscuity malt in the backdrop with a dry, zesty finish. Average body and fine+ prickly carbonation. Fairly ok, but also fairly forgettable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can thanks to Jim. Appearance - golden with a neat billowy head. Nose - pine and light grapefruit. Caramel biscuit underlay. Taste - creamy lemon and grapefruit. Citrus pith at the back. Palate - light bodied, creamy but zesty through middle and finish. Overall - decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Keg at the Parcel Yard, Leicester. Light golden, clear with little head but lots if visible carbonation. Resinous, floral smell with suggestions of tropical fruit and library paste. Tastes sweet with more gluey notes and a hoppy bitterness in the finish. Astringent aftertaste. Heavy but not overpowering carbonation. Weird and not all that pleasant.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Extracted from Beeradvocate on 30th July 2025, not sure how it didn't get here on it's own via RateBeer?
500ml Bottle: BBD end of Feb 15, poured twice into a half-pint countryman glass tankard at home on 29th Dec 13.
A slight haze in my golden bodied beer, the white head tried to stay the distance and almost made it, carbonation bubbles rose throughout the 500ml.
A little too citrusy and raw for my palate, piny feel as well, but those lemon flavours did for me. The malts were not strong enough to give any sweetness to the brew and that allowed the hops 'free range' to do as they wished.
Just not 'my cup of tea', but I've scored it objectively!
