YP Young Pretender
Isle of Skye Brewing Co. in Uig, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.14
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Malted barley is the cornerstone of Scottish brewing. Hops, less so. However, we wanted to try something very different – and made Young Pretender our driest, hoppiest ale
Shimmering gold and refreshingly full-flavoured, Young Pretender is an ale to challenge received wisdom.
Much like the Skye Brewery itself – very much an upstart in an industry sometimes reluctant to embrace the new.
Available in bottles at 3.8% ABV, draft at 4%.
Hops: Challenger
Malts: Maris Otter, Medium Crystal
Shimmering gold and refreshingly full-flavoured, Young Pretender is an ale to challenge received wisdom.
Much like the Skye Brewery itself – very much an upstart in an industry sometimes reluctant to embrace the new.
Available in bottles at 3.8% ABV, draft at 4%.
Hops: Challenger
Malts: Maris Otter, Medium Crystal
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF 2014. It pours clear golden with a tiny white head. The nose is bitter-sweet, grainy, toast, sto e fruits, oats and dough. The taste is smooth, lightly bitter, grainy, mild sourness, oat, hay and citrus peel with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2014
at 09:18
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap @ Thomson’s Bar. Pours amber with a decent head. The nose is malty, creamy but quite elusive. The taste is of caramel and resin. The palate is medium bodied and textured but slightly cloying. Overall, so so!
Tried
from Draft
on 17 May 2012
at 01:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Halfway House, 24 Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1BX.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, sour fruit, overriped pineapple - fruit, light hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus - vinegar notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101031]
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2011
at 13:32
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask, Cafe Royal, Edinburgh. Hazy orange with a creamyish white head. Some summer fruit and hop in the aroma. Sweetish flavour with some hoppiness and a dryish bitter finish which doesn’t hang about. Decent enough thirst slaker but nothing to write home aboot.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2008
at 17:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask (Pub at the Pier, Uig): Deep golden coloured, smaller stable head; grassy, aromatic hops in the nose; quite dry bitter flavour, light bodied; lingering dry bitter-aromatic finish. Spicy, pleasant thirst-quencher............
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2007
at 11:38