Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) Red MacGregor (Cask)

Red MacGregor (Cask)
(Batch of Red MacGregor (4%))

 

Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular
Score
6.73
ABV: 4.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 144
Red MacGregor is a mighty beer indeed a celebration of one of Scotland's true historic heroes. It was one of the first beers in Scotland that expressively used the American hop Cascade for citrusy fruit flavour.

It has a wonderfully complex aroma of fruity hop zest, spiciness and rich malts. This beer offers initial toasted caramel malt aromas and flavours then mouth-watering citrus hop fruits giving way to a clean, fruity, refreshing hop bitterness.

Hops: Challenger, Cascade
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Chocolate, Malted Wheat
 

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7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Deep copper with a creamy tan head. Caramel malts, berries, and a nice snappy bitterness. Medium dry finish. Quite a lovely pint.

Tried from Cask at Ryrie’s Bar on 11 Oct 2025 at 14:15


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear copper brown coloured pour with a decent beige froth. Aroma is tangy red berries, cranberry, brown bread, twig. Flavour is composed of toasted malts, light treacle, brown sugars, brown bread, tangy berries, cranberry, fruit and nut. Palate is semi sweet, light tang, ok cask condition. Decent.

Tried from Cask on 02 Jun 2024 at 13:17


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Three Horseshoes, Waddington. Deep amber reddish colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are malty. Fruity and slight bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Cask on 11 Feb 2024 at 13:40


6

Sample on cask at the Gate House JDW. Medium creamy white head. Clear golden pour.. Light bitterness

Tried from Cask on 06 Mar 2022 at 17:05


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Picture House, Stafford (though I’ve had it before elsewhere). Pours a brownish red with a small off-white head and some lacing. The aroma is faint and variable, either malts or berry fruits. In the mouth it is slightly watery, but that is more than made up for with bitter hoppiness, over a caramel base. Later on some dark fruits start to show, and the finish is bitter and fruity. This is a bit of an acquired taste – but I like it !

Tried from Cask on 18 Feb 2022 at 21:29


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at Phoenix Ale House, Inverness June 2015. Pours clear amber red with a beige top. Aroma: sweet malts, bread, caramel, earthy. Taste: light sweet & bitter, malts, caramel, toffee. Medium body, soft crab, dry bitter hop finish

Tried from Cask on 07 Jul 2020 at 21:52


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a red brown colour with an average sized off white head. Aroma is fruit and malt, roasted malt, ripe bananas and berries. A moderately sweet malty taste, roasted and berry flavours and a drying bitterness to finish.

Tried on 06 Oct 2019 at 13:24



6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Red Mac Gregor - cask at Akkurat cons 2018-02-17 Stockholm AR: roasted malt, bitter citrus-ish AP: ruby dark, wee transparent beige head F: low carb, bitter, dry, dried fruity 3,3

Tried from Cask on 18 Feb 2018 at 06:24


8

Cask @ Bothy bar, our favorite pub in Kirkwall. Red smoothly frothy bitter ale

Tried from Cask on 18 Sep 2017 at 17:08