Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours deep brown, nose is malty, roasted, nutty, taste is dry, sweet, toffee.

Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours golden amber, nose is malty, grassy, taste is malty toffee, floral, crisp. --- Beer merged from original tick of Stirling Bitter 70/- on 15 Sep 2015 at 12:24 - Score: 6. Original review text: Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours golden amber, nose is malty, grassy, taste is malty toffee, floral, crisp.

Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours copper amber, nose is sweet toffee, floral, taste is similar, light bitterness.

Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours black, nose is roasted malts, chocolate, light fruit, taste is dry, roasty, sweet chocolate.

Cask at SRAF 2010. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, roasted malts, taste is light, thin, sweet.

Cask at SRAF 2009. Pours golden amber, nose is floral, light citrus, taste is sweet, light fruit.

Bottle split at LKS, thanks to Daniel, 03/09/15. Pale golden blonde with a moderate off White covering. Nose is caramel, paper, grassy, vanilla. Taste comprises much the same, sweet and rather bland, paper chase all the way through. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Dull ... wars of tim.

Scottish coffee beer with light beige, creamy, moussy, ’natural’ head and very dark bronze colour, blackish but still translucid, hazy. Aroma shouts coffee all the way through, with impressions of mocha ice cream, cappuccino, cafè latte, caramel coffee... Everything is coffee-themed here and there are not many aromas of other components, though I do get some toast, dried apricot, hazelnut paste, vanilla and very vague herbal hops. The overpowering coffee bouquet makes me curious to dive into this. Taste begins with dried fruits, faintly sweetish with an equally weak sourish edge, soft carbo, lean and slick mouthfeel, caramelly in its basis, a bit toasted, sweetish with a honeyish touch to it but also a slightly metallic ’zing’; the coffee flavour gains strength as the palate proceeds and works strongly retronasally, aromatic and stimulating, leaving a bittersweet coating in the end, but without the deep roasted bitterness one would expect from coffee stouts - this is clearly intended to be a coffee beer without the evident stout associations. A gentle but satisfying earthy hoppiness rounds things off in the end without becoming deeply bittering, but needless to say, a resiny, bittersweet ’film’ of coffee clings to the mouth and will be the last thing you’ll remember of this. Something of a one-trick pony, coffee through and through, but rather coffee softened and sweetened with milk or cream rather than deeply bittering. Tasty, but only suitable for those who like a fragrant cup of ’real’ coffee every now and then; in this kind of mono-flavoured beers, everything depends on whether you like the prevailing flavour or not, I guess. In this case, I’m in, I sincerely enjoyed it, because it is funny. And enjoying beer is about having fun, right?

Tried at the three horseshoes, Waddington. Rich Amber colour with an off white head. Fruity and spice aroma, with. Touch of nut. Taste starts light sweet to mid bitter. Very nice.

33 cl bottle brewed in 2015. Label matches picture. 7% alc.. Conditioned in oak casks used to mature scottish whisky. as "1488 premium whisky beer" Clear dark golden, large offwhite head. aroma of malts, caramel , old hops, toffee. smells like one of the not so good uk vintage beers. flavor is grass, malts, whisky, wood, quite sweet, no noticeable hops, but the flowery sweetness inside the malty and caramelly sweetnes could be from hops. More or less as sweet as a barley wine. the toffee and caramel bends it towards cloying.