Highland Ale
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
5.91
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Very dark amber, and a tight small white head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, and a sweet buttery bowl of vanilla pudding. Flavor is very sweet and again very buttery. Lots of sweet caramel malts, caramel, sweet oak and mote vanilla. Its quite complex but its also quite sweet and its not my style.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 330mL bottle. Clear copper brown with off white head. Usual I&G characteristics - vanilla, oak, toffee. Taste is almost indistinguishable from I&G Original.
gtaegeek (6356) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle, shared by Ian at Timmy’s birthday party. Pours a slightly hazy, straw color, with a big, off-white, foamy head. The nose is immediate bready malts, with a big slug of butterscotch. Subtler notes of oak, syrup, and earthiness. Very sweet and boozy, with almost no bitterness to balance. Heavy body, syrupy, smooth and creamy, and clean. This is a really nice treatment of a mediocre base beer. I love scotch, and the barrel character is very forward and pleasant to me.
superspak (10160) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22.3 ounce bottle into snifter, best before 2/2016. Pours crystal clear deep amber/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, toffee, toasted oak, bread, plum, apple, light vanilla, herbal, grass, and oak/yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good complexity and solid balance of bready malt, oak barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. A bit on the strong side with oak presence in the aromas. Taste of caramel, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, bread, plum, apple, herbal, grass, light peat smoke, and oak/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate amount of oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, vanilla,toasted oak, bread, plum, apple, herbal, grass, light peat smoke, and oak/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity and robustness of bready malt, oak barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a nice malt/barrel balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and lightly creamy/slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a very nice oak aged English strong ale style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt, oak barrel, and light-moderate fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Characteristic toffee, caramel, vanilla, not too sweet, let down by not having much whisky flavour coming through.
tmrmwel (4623) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours dark brown caramel, with a big creamy head. Aroma is roasted malts and caramel, as well as bread, oak and whiffs of whisky. Full body with soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet with roasted malts, grain, oak and peat, and a too sweet finish.
Lilja (4691) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Mycket doft, sötma, smörkola, ekfatskaraktär en trevlig årgång som serveras väl kyld.
Tessic (2342) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
This Ale poured a clear amber colour with a minimal head, even after a vigourous pour. Scents include wine, oak, whiskey and toast. first sip was smooth and had a creamy mouthfeel with light flavours of whiskey and barrel along with a nice caramel aftertaste. Palate is lightly boozey with whiskey flavours lingering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(bottle) clear amber colour with a medium tall tan head; aromas of toffee, vanilla, mild if not very remarkable flavour with light medium long bitter finish
GRM (7524) reviewed Highland Ale from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Clear bottle in a cardboard box, 330 ml, best December 2011, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on July 9 2012; eye: coppery, clear, no effervescence, tiny sheet of tan head, no lacing; nose: caramel, toffee, butter; mouth: caramel, toffee, slight alcohol, unknown unpleasant taste, finale in sugary water with that unpleasant unknown taste, light-medium body, average carbonation, mildly sweet, cloying texture; overall: once is enough FRANÇAIS Bouteille transparente dans une boîte en carton, 330 ml, meilleure avant décembre 2011, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 9 juillet 2012; œil : cuivrée, limpide, pas d’effervescence, petite couverture de mousse fauve, pas de dentelle; nez : caramel, toffee, beurre; bouche : caramel, toffee, très léger alcool, goût inconnu déplaisant, finale en eau sucrée avec ce goût inconnu déplaisant, corps léger-moyen, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture toquante; en résumé : une fois, c’est assez