6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can from Gordon, last beer of the night, 24th September 2025. Hazed dull orange, orange like aroma and initial taste, dank fruity beer all round, decent alcohol kick too.

7

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

Can from Hop Shop Aberdeen. It pours hazy golden - pale orange with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is sweet, juicy, ripe mango, apricot, tinned pineapple, five alive fruit juice, candy and pic n mix. The taste is crisp, dry, snappy, sweet - sour, light nip of acidity, some pucker, sour candy, mango, orangey, lime sherbet, fizzy pineapple, flying saucers, slightly lactic and peach yogurt vibes with a tropical finale. Average body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Decent easy going fruit sour.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Pale lager by a craft brewery stressing its use of cartoons on its labels and cans - something literally hundreds of craft breweries around the world do these days, but anyway. Can from an organic shop in Aberdeen. Moussey and frothy, snow white, pillowy, lacing head slowly diminishing over a clear pale yellow-blonde beere with lively visible sparkling. Aroma of soggy white bread (old bread in this case), flour, young Gouda cheese somewhere, minerals, plaster, damp cotton cloth, wet grass, paper glue, field flowers, oatmeal. Clean onset, sweetish and simple graininess (no esters here so in any case tasting like an actual lager), minerally carbonated - a bit stingy even but acceptable for its style; very slick white-bready pale maltiness with faint glimpses of soapy wheat while the oatmeal, also included in the ingredients list, remains all but indetectable. Develops gentle yet persistent floral and somewhat grassy hop bitterness in its tail, eventually even quite long-stretched and a bit resinous, with adequately drying effect. Somewhat unassuming at first sight, but the wheat and oatmeal do add slickness enhancing drinkability and hops have been applied a tad more generously than is typical for the 'macro' representatives of the species. For an intentionally straightforward craft pale lager, this is okay, nothing more, nothing less.

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy APA by a Scottish craft brewery I never heard of before; I guess the brewery's name refers to the cartoons on their cans. From an organic shop in Aberdeen. Off-white, shred-lacing, medium thick, irregular, opening head on a hazed straw blonde beer, turning more ochre-ish and beige further on, ending up all murky when all the deposit has gone into the glass. Aroma of lime zest, armpit sweat, chamomile tea, green onions, pomelo, sugared cucumber, yarrow, rainwater, diluted lemon juice, diesel, acacia honey. Soft onset, a bit juicy but generally quite clean with a 'green' kind of feel, medium carb, slender body, a bit powdery; herb cracker-like, thin pale maltiness flavoured with dank, grassy and citric hoppiness, adding elements of young mugwort, cucumber, lime peel, lemon zest and green bell pepper. These hops provide a long, pleasantly drying spicy bitterness, more so than expected, but perhaps the term 'hazy' used by the brewery creates expectations of tropical fruit, which was not really present. Atypical for a hazy APA, ending with a slight hopburn, lacking a bit of body and rather 'green' in its hop aromas, this is somewhat (too) straightforward and thin for what it set out to be, though it remains 'correctly' brewed and enjoyable for what it is.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Number 10 Bar & Restaurant, Aberdeen. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light peach and biscuit. Taste is bitter, plant stalks, orange. Bitter finish.

7

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

Can from Westhill Service Station. It pours lear golden with a white cap. The aroma is fresh, tropical fruits, passion fruit, lychee, watermelon, mango, orange sherbet, touch dank and weedy. The aroma is crisp, firmly dry, decent bitterness, green, weedy, dank, herbal, damp rope, pithy, zesty and waxy grapefruit peel with a drying finish. Light body and soft, fluffy carbonation. Decent session pale. Would like to try the cask version of this.

6

Can at home. Pours hazy yellow, nose is mango, cream, lemon, taste is juicy mango, sweet, creamy, slightly salty. 6/6/7/7/7

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from The Beer Cave (2020) and cans from Aldi (2024 & 2025). Murky deep golden body with a few flecks beneath an off-white head. No visible carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of caramel, tangerine and mango. Flavour of blood orange, grapefruit, mint and dried mango. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. This is very good value - it’s dank and pretty tasty.

7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

keg at Dundee beer festival 2025 ...deep murk purple ..big berries fruit nose ...juicy tart blueberries ...sherbert wham bar ..Bright and fruity

6

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

keg at 71 festival ...golden amber ..thin white lacing ..soft grassy fruit nose ..long dry fruit ...its what it ssy
decent and clean