Orkney Brewery (Sinclair Breweries)

Microbrewery in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated Venue: Orkney Brewery

Established in 1988

Contact
Quoyloo, Stromness, KW16 3LT, Scotland
Description
Orkney Brewery was founded in March 1988 by Roger White at the old schoolhouse in Quoyloo, Orkney. In June 2004, the Orkney Brewery was acquired from its retiring founder by the shareholders of Atlas Brewery (founded in 2002 by Neill Cotton ) to form Highlands and Islands Breweries. Highland & Islands was taken over by Sinclair Breweries in 2006.

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6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear copper with a rocky white head. Aromas of toffee and orange. Taste is more of the same. Light sweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2024 at 17:52

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thick white head. Aromas of light malt and pineapple. Taste is light mango and pineapple. Light sweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2024 at 17:19

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours clear amber with a thick white head. Aromas of brown bread and citrus. Taste is sweet dough, granary loaf, marmalade. Thin finish.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2024 at 21:18

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thick white head. Light gusher. Aromas of light corn and lemon. Taste is grassy bitter, straw, herbs. Clean finish.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2024 at 20:29

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light creamy malt, biscuit and lemon rind. Taste adds a hint of fresh sweat and resin. Light bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2024 at 20:02

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can from Marshalls Farm Shop, Aberdeenshire. It pours clear golden - amber with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is grassy, floral, herbal, quite spicy, toasty grain, biscuit and oakcakes. The taste is crispy, firmly dry, pleasing bitterness, green, grassy, quite spicy actually, prickly, herbal accents, straw and some biscuity malt with a drying finish. Medium body and moderate, prickly carbonation. Quite crispy and quenching. A nice lagerbier. Well done.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2024 at 17:29

5.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Cask @ Regal Moon, Rochdale. Golden with a creamy head. Floral effort, quite bushy in aroma, with peach evident by its aftertaste.
Tried from Cask on 22 Mar 2024 at 18:21

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask at Heriot watt beer festival. Pours clear golden, nose is toffee, hay, floral, taste is hay, toffee, bit funky.
Tried from Cask on 22 Mar 2024 at 14:15

6/10
cask at the HW Beer festival 2024 m amber ...thin white lacing ..soft sweet caramel toffee dish water fruit nose ..big soapy dishwater
Tried from Cask on 22 Mar 2024 at 14:12

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at The County Hotel JDW Ashford. Clear gold colour lasting cream head. Hoppy pale ale. Columbus hops shine through. Good lemon flavour good sharp bitterness on the finish. Light pale malts in mouth. Light peach flavour. I rather liked it.
Tried from Cask on 20 Mar 2024 at 17:39