Innis & Gunn Brewing Co.

Commercial Brewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2003

Contact
6 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7TH, Scotland
Subsidiaries
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. owns 2 breweries:
Description
Spearheading the barrel-ageing movement from Scotland, The Original bourbon barrel-aged beer is the one that started Innis & Gunn when Master Brewer Dougal Gunn Sharp founded the brewery in 2003.

Innis & Gunn was contract brewed in Glasgow at Tennent's Wellpark Brewery since 2014. On 15 November 2018 Tennent's announced the brewing contract will be terminated with effect from September 2020. Innis & Gunn responded the following day by saying they plan on opening their own brewery.

The Innis & Gunn Brewery in Perth is our home for innovation and barrel-ageing. With plans to build a new large scale brewery in our hometown of Edinburgh, it will be the first new large brewery to be built in the capital in 150 years.

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6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Boxed bottle from the lcbo. Very subtle barrel aged stout. Light smoke, light peat, nice roast. Watery body, and mouth feel, very soft carb. Light bitterness, treacle, and light sweet soy notes with hints of woody barrel.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:26

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 2 Overall 5.5
Very dark mahogany pour, with a large beige head. Aroma has an incredible amount of spice. Loads of nutmeg, cinnamon, and juniper. A strong mix of gin and pumpkin pie spices. Roasty, semi sweet Porter in the background, slightly watery, with a soft carb. Finish is sharp, and dry, medium bitterness, light grass, dry sharp spice and semi sweet malts. Pretty messy.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:24

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Hazy orange pour, tiny white head. Yeasty, slightly buttery nose, hints if spruce tips, lemon oil, and juniper. Mouth feel is good, carb is very soft bordering on flat. Finish is lemony, and yeasty with low bitterness and a slight peppery end.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:24

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Very dark copper, with a large beige head. Aroma is fruity, dark sticky malts, very sweet malts, bready with hints if sweet barrel and Bourbon.. Finish is again quite sweet, hops are lost in the sticky, caramel, fruity malts. Actually reminds me alot of a doppelbock... An odd beer.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:24

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Can from the lcbo. Pale yellow pour, big white head. Very grassy hints of lemon and some pine resin with some strong pale malts. Strong cereals pine hops take over the hop profile.. Low bitterness, reminds me of a moderately hoped lager. Meh.
Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:23

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from the lcbo. Fruity, trademark buttery oak Aroma all Innis beers have. Bready, Sherry flavoured malts, sweet, and sticky. Caramel and brown sugar and more buttery earthy barrel.. Low bitterness sweet vanilla and earthy barrel in the end. Run of the mill Innis beer.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:22

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
2015 vintage. Dark brown pour, with an off white almost beige head. Aroma is sweet malts, brown sugar, and earthy barrel. Hints of roasty, and nuttiness, with some light vanilla. Carb is over the top and actually a little tough to drink. Finish is very woody, and earthy, with some more sweet malts. This seems to have alot less of their trademark buttery flavour, this is quite a bit cleaner. Low to medium bitterness, decent stuff.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:21

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from the lcbo. Clear orange pour, big, frothy white head. Citrus, and orange aromas mingle with some strong oak, woody aromas. These beers seem to be seeing less and less of the barrel, this one is only 22 days. Mind you, more would have been over powering i think. The finish is leathery, hints of tobacco, and lots of earthy barrel with hints of vanilla, and slme subtle citrus, one of the best innis and gunn beers ive ever had.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:18

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Clear golden pour with a medium white head. Some light floral aromas, honey, soft citrus, oak, woody, earthy hops, and the innis and gunn trademark butter. Heaviy, slightly oily mouth feel with a soft carb. Finish is slightly sweet, subtle wheat flavour, with light lemon and floral herbs, with a buttery, earthy oak finish.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:16

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Innis and gun holiday pack at the lcbo. Labeled as bourbon dark ale.
Big bourbon oak aroma, some light fruit, and bready cereals. Low bitterness, quite sweet, big earthy vanilla, and brown sugar.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:14