Puffin Ale (Cask)
(Batch of Puffin)
Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.63
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Ask at the Lincoln Beer Festival 2024. Amber colour with an off white head. Aroma and taste are malty caramel and sweet nutty. Slight citrus fruit. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Roms (JDW), Bristol March 2015. Pale amber with a decent, white, head. Rich, malty sweetness, with marmalade notes, some green herbs and a hint of pine, before a dryish finish. Pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Pump House, Shirley. Poured a clear medium amber with a long lasting frothy white head. The aroma is light malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a light woody, nutty hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW). Reading. Amber with a lasting off-white head. Orangey citrus up front then a bit of creamy caramel. Some mild herbs. On the watery side- after a decent start it dies a bit. Mildly bitter, dry finish. Bit disappointing after the excellent Nottingham Salsa I’d had just before but it’s OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Willow Walk, JDW - London. Pours clear gold with a frothy white head. Pale bread in the nose, some rindy citrus, toasted grains, hay. Light to medium sweet flavor with some very nice, citrusy hops, mild grassy bitterness, pale bready malts, hay, faint leaves. Light bodied within me carnonation; great condition. Well balanced on British with some lightly toasted pale malts, bread, more citrusy hops, some bitter rind and grass, mellow earth. A very solid bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Prince Arthur (JDW), Fleet. Bright amber with a tight cream head; orangey citrus aroma; nutty malt taste, with a fresh spicy herbal bitterness; and a lingering orange marmalade finish. Rather good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16th March 2015
Crosse Keys Spoons. Cask. Bright clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and smooth. Mild fine carbonation. Light pale malt sweetness. Little dried fruits. Mild orange - tangerine hops kick in. Light dry finish reveals bubblegum ester. Clean and drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - golden amber with a proportionate head. Nose - light toffee and herb. Taste - toffee confirmed. Light shortbread in the background. Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a fairly good finish if a little sweet. Overall - a decent though indistinguishable from others bitter style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the standing order. Pours clear pale amber, nose is toffee, caramel, floral, taste is chewy toffee, floral.