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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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

7.5/10
Tried from Cask on 18 Mar 2024 at 17:54

7.5/10
Orkney Islands! Would love to go one day.
Tried from Cask on 18 Mar 2024 at 15:42

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Delt med Rune. Wetherspoonsfestival -24. Mørk stråfarget. Klar. Tynn teppelacing. Lett sitronaroma. Smaken sitronskall. Lett bitter avslutning.
Tried on 16 Mar 2024 at 20:35

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear pale gold coloured pour with a speckled white head. Aroma is subdued nutty malts, grass, hedgerow hop. Palate is semi sweet. Flavour is composed of. Grass, dirty grains, hedgerow hop, bark, green apple, decent cask condition. Firm dirty hop in the finish.
Tried from Cask on 10 Mar 2024 at 15:14

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at JDW Ritz Lincoln. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are malty buscuit and toffee. Medium body.
Tried from Cask on 09 Mar 2024 at 16:01