Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33 cL clear bottle (limited edition 2006). Pours amber to deep brown with a little lacing white head. Breadish roasted malt aroma, slight note of barrels. Flavour is malty and slight dried fruity, mildly woody. Ends mellow malty. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cL clear bottle. Pours clear deep orange with lacing white head. Toffee malty aroma. Smooth sweet caramel malty flavour. Very mild bitterness in the finish.
gnoff (11188) reviewed Island Cask from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
First rating(33 cl bottle from Systembolaget) Clear cherry wood to copper look, small white head. Oak, smoke, vanilla, fruits and also quite clearan agave touch for scent. An alcohol touch first made me fantasize of a Mexican Mezcal, got some butter and sugar on there as well. Dry wood taste, Dry woody aftertaste. Sweet and agave like, some alcohol aftertaste and also warming alcohol feeling. Smoke and wood aftertaste lingering. Medium to spritzy mouthfeel. Medium bitterness. Interesting but not the best they’ve made.7/3/5/2/12=2.9Rerate33 cl bottle, aged in my 12 degree C fridge for about a year and compared side by side with the new one from the red box, separate rating.BB Dec 2008. Clear copper to brown color, off-white head. Sweet, oak, vanilla, vinous, malty, whiksy scent. Sweet, dry, wood, oak, butterscotch taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.4/4/4/3/8=2.3
omhper (44752) reviewed Island Cask from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottled. Clear amber, small dense head. Woody islay whisky aroma. Very sweet, sugary and sticky. Simplistic clean malt profile. Some pleasant licorice-like smokey whiskey flavours from the barrel, but the base beer is really, well not good. One dimensional.much too sweet and lacking in character. Very disappointing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle REESG 07 ... AS i liked the normal at first but grew to loath it over the whole bottle im a bit wary of my rating on a 50ml sample... copper ... woody malt and a little blue cheese ! ... little sweet(not as much as normal) again a little woody with soem malt fruits.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle, at RBESG 2007 in Glasgow, Grand Tasting. Deep amber colour, moderate head. Woody / oaky aroma, but not very strong. The flavour is fairly sweet and woody.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottled at RBESG ’07. Amber colour, minimal head, clear. Sherryish woody nose with some vanilla. Sweet with clean mouthfeel. Evident and elegant barrel flavour like a less peaty Highland whisky. The malt however is a bit mellow and not firm enough. Still a good interesting beer.
fonefan (84534) reviewed The Original from Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Light unclear amber orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy toffee and butter, vanilla, honey, oak, wood, light citrus Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration. Very nice and smoth. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is flat to soft. Very nice ;o))
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap, blue blazer edinburgh ... light yellow ... light hop fruit ... juicy ... sweet ... lots of vanilla ... bit uninspired.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle from Sainsburys. Deep copper with a ruby tint and a trace of white head. Aroma of vanilla and oak; buttery toffee flavour with more vanilla; alcohol builds to give a warm finish.