Cairngorm Brewery

Microbrewery in Aviemore, Highland, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated Venue: Cairngorm Brewery

Established in 2001

Contact
Dalfaber Industrial Estate, Aviemore, PH22 1ST, Scotland
Subsidiaries
Cairngorm Brewery owns 1 brewery:
Description
Cairngorm Brewery Company is a craft brewery established in 2001, situated in the village of Aviemore within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland.

We currently have a 20 barrel Brewhouse, capable of producing 6500 litres of the finest ale each day. With a full range of permanent and seasonal cask beers to suit all tastes, many of them available throughout the year in 500ml and 330ml bottles.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Sample@GBBF2018, London, with the Malmö crew - amber to brown pour with a beige head. Toasted and sweet bready malty, some caramel, nutty accents, medium to light body, slight grassy, twiggy and herbal hoppy bitter finish.
Tried on 18 Dec 2018 at 20:14

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500 ml. bottle @ Bonnie Prince. Golden, white head. Nose is perfume, oily, sweet candy. Taste is plastic, butter, grain, massively sweet grain, creamy plastic, poor.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2018 at 16:00

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
500 ml. bottle sampled @ Bonnie Prince. Clear orange amber, creamy white head. Nose is butter, apple, green. Taste is butter apple, grainy oily unpleasant spoiled apple, butter, industrial, grain, oily,… Rubbish.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2018 at 15:56

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask @ MBar (Dowans Hotel & Restaurant), Aberlour. Golden, clear, white foam. Aroma: fruit, malt, honey, flowers (elder). Taste: slightly carbonated, malt, light fruitiness, a bit of citrus, light earthiness, elderberry, rather an amateur.
Tried from Cask on 11 Nov 2018 at 20:21

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - a lovely autumnal red going into brown. Neat creamy head. Nose - toffee, shortbread and molasses. Taste - toffee apple and molasses. Palate - creamy and crunchy texture. Medium bodied. Overall - lovely stuff.
Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2018 at 12:10

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Cask at the Standing Order. Pours dark red brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of dark toffee, chocolate. Taste is malt loaf, raisins and toffee. Warming and roasty. Decent.
Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2018 at 12:08

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Cask at Winking Owl, stable creamy head, opaque black color, aroma of coffee, chocolate and some roasty notes, flavor of chocolate, coffee, metal and an empathic roasty bitterness. Really nice and highly enjoyable.
Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2018 at 20:56

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at Winking Owl, smallish creamy head, clear copper color, caramel aroma with some bread, flavor of caramel and some dark fruits, empathic medium bitterness. Nice and simple.
Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2018 at 20:49

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Cask at Winking owl, smallish creamy head, clear gold colour, aroma of mineral and almond with a verly light breadiness, flavor of light bread, flowers, almond and a mellow herbal bitterness. Nice and enjoyable.
Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2018 at 20:40

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2018. It pours clear deep brown with a thick beige head. The aroma is sweet, oily, toffee, caramel, toasted nut, earth and leather. The taste is dry, bitter, chewy, brown, bread, sticky, oily, toasted sesame, wood, leather, spice, grass and alcohol with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Oily and chewy. Decent stuff.
Tried from Cask on 09 Aug 2018 at 17:30