Top Out Brewery

Microbrewery in Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2013

Closed in 2022

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Unit 3 6b Dryden Road, Loanhead, EH20 9LZ, Scotland
Description
Founder and head brewer Michael loves to spend most of his free time in the mountains and as a keen mountaineer and fell runner he has visited most of Britain's walking and climbing regions. In the past he has also climbed some of the highest mountains in the alps, as well as frozen waterfalls, abseiled down seacliffs in Cornwall (only to climb back up again...), climbed the crags of the Peak District, walked and scrambled extensively in Snowdonia and the Lake District. Closer to home he has battled the Scottish winter (and sometimes the 'summer') to both walk and climb. Some of his more exotic climbing destinations have included rock climbing on the arctic Lofoten islands of Norway and trekking in Kyrgystan. Following a move to Edinburgh, Michael founded Top Out in 2013 with his friend Moo and bringing his passion for climbing to our beers as well.

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Tried on 02 May 2020 at 23:01


5.2
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours hazy muddy amber with a bubbly off-white head. The aroma is sweet ripe papaya, dried apricot, over-ripe fruits, gummy bears, jelly beans, a bit green and earth. The taste is fairly sweet and tangy, plenty of very ripe tropical / stone fruits, papaya, mango, pithy, soapy orange peel, gummy bears, waxy, earthy, green, onion and weedy with a green, earthy finish. Medium body and light carbonation. Pretty muddy and earthy. A sub-par offering from these. Not a patch on some of their other beers.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2020 at 16:19


5

Juniper, dusty, moldy, herbal, sour, weird

Tried on 24 Dec 2019 at 01:00


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home. Pours hazy dark golden with a short-lived thin white head. Aromas of dough, wheat. Taste is quite sweet. Light salt and spice. Sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2019 at 13:58


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at BD Clerkenwell, 11/11/19. Hazed reddish amber with a decent faded crimson to off white cap. Nose is tangy berry fruits, grass, straw, grains, strawberry liquorice. Taste follws light red berry tang, grass, herb, grains, dusty fruit. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light fruit tang. Ok stuff ... fair refresher after some boost.

Tried on 12 Nov 2019 at 08:21


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at the hanging bat. Pours deep orangey brown, nose is burnt toffee, caramel, fruity, taste is sweet, caramel, malty, watery. --- Beer merged from original tick of RepLicale on 09 Dec 2019 at 08:32 - Score: 7

Tried on 08 Nov 2019 at 10:35


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Keg at Edinburgh craft beer exercise... Deep red... Light herbal caramel toffee malts nose... Soft sweet woody herbal toffee malts

Tried on 06 Nov 2019 at 19:44


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Keg at the hanging bat... Deep brown... Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet caramel... Soft sweet toffee dark blackcurrant toffee... Soft sweet caramel toffee fruit.. Soft sweet toffee malts

Tried on 06 Nov 2019 at 18:32


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at craft beer experience. Pours deep reddish, nose is tomato soup, orange, toffee, taste is sweet toffee, grass, light citrus.

Tried on 06 Nov 2019 at 10:24


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Third, beer flight, collabfest at BrewDog Reading. Shared with Finn. Red-orange body with a wheat haze. Spotty lacing, filmy layer. Subdued smell of spiced berries. Berry-fruits to the taste buds, raisin, red berries and mid-sweet banana. Spiced fruit ending. So and so. (Reading 20.10.2019).

Tried on 05 Nov 2019 at 18:31