Isle of Arran Brewery Milestone Special Reserve 2009

Milestone Special Reserve 2009

 

Isle of Arran Brewery in Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
6.36
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 3
We taken our award winning Milestone Ale, and aged it in Bruichladdich Octomore Whisky Casks, making a distinctive Special Reserve for this year. Special Reserve is available in 750ml Champaign style bottles to finish off the presentation of this truly special beer.
 

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4.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Rating #2400. bottle at JohnM, thanks much for sharing. Hazy amber colour, thin head. Aroma is massive iodium, medicine. Flavour is fairly peaty, strong whisky, little malts. Very bitter, slightly fruity finish. Strange, not very good though. The whisky thing is overdone.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2011 at 13:35


7.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 750ml.Clear medium orange amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, orange, wood, vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light light fruity - woody acidic and moderate bitter with a long duration, fruity and orange. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100207]

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2010 at 13:57


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

bottle at home ... luckiy Jan had the hassle of cutting into the mass of wax ...copper ... thin white lacing ... soft sweet vanilla ... i like the nose ... acidic tart ... little lemon .... light malt ... some fruits... not really getting the whisky ... ok ... but not worth premium price ... not much like anything i can think of ... so quite unusual

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2010 at 13:04