Northern Light (Cask)
(Batch of Northern Light)
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.91
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a hazy light golden colour with a small thick white head. Aroma is cereal, straw and lemon. Toasted malt taste, some caramel and orange peel flavours with a moderate dry hop bitterness.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2018
at 17:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask pint at The Grill, Aberdeen. Golden colour, white head. Very moderate aroma, some hops. The flavour is fruity, well hopped and pleasant.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Mar 2017
at 14:15
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Red Lion, Amblecote. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is straw and lemon. Taste has straw malts. Simple, boring, forgetable.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jan 2017
at 14:18
6/10
Tried
on 24 Apr 2016
at 10:47
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at SRAF. Pours golden, nose is toffee, floral, taste is light toffee, a little thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jul 2014
at 10:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Stromness Hotel. Pours hazy pale gold, thick foamy head. Light lemon and malt aromas. Taste is more of the same. Not exciting, but not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Apr 2014
at 00:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Grill. It pours clear golden yellow with a medium white head. The nose is doughy, straw, sweet orange, sherbet and muffin. The taste is crisp, floral, light dough, orange, tangerine, lemon, sherbet and straw with a dry, citric finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. A clean, easy-going golden. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Dec 2013
at 07:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Seven Stars, Rugby, 30/10/13. Very lightly hazed golden blond with a thin white head that clears to edgeing. Nose is citrus, lemon rind, toasted malts. Taste comprises bitter orange, lemon zest, citruc tang, light toasty malts. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry finale with grassy bitter notes. Ok GB.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Nov 2013
at 14:06
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Watery in appearance and texture, with an understated hoppiness as its flavour.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2012
at 06:13
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask @ Wetherspoon, Elgin 190711
Appearance - Straw colour, clear, frothy white head.
Aroma - light grape hop.
Taste - cereal malt, some bitter grape hop, bit of grass. Bland.
Palate - Mildly bitter, acidic cereal fininsh. Metallic sourness.
Overall - An only average golden ale spoiled by poor sour finish. Not good.
Appearance - Straw colour, clear, frothy white head.
Aroma - light grape hop.
Taste - cereal malt, some bitter grape hop, bit of grass. Bland.
Palate - Mildly bitter, acidic cereal fininsh. Metallic sourness.
Overall - An only average golden ale spoiled by poor sour finish. Not good.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jul 2011
at 11:47