Keg at Brewdog Doghouse Edinburgh. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of coffee and chocolate. Taste is fruity, blackcurrant. Tarry finish.

Keg at Brewdog Inverurie. It pours jet black with a sturdy, deep tan head. The aroma is dark roasted malt, charred, sweet, decadent, chocolate, toasted coconut, cookie dough, pipe tobacco, hot chocolate, coffee grounds and mocha. The taste is very sweet upfront, sticky, sickly, slick, thick , loads of chocolate, choc chip cookies, toasted coconut, vanilla, chocolate brownie, toothy, chew, chocolate ice cream, brownies, boozey warmth and chocolate sauce with a sweet, warming finish. Fulsome body, prickly carbonation and chewy mouth feel. Far too sweet for me. Prefer the previous iterations of this. Too much for the likes of me.

Can picked up at Westhill Service Station. It pours clear golden - blonde with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, gooseberry fool, crunchy white grape, lemon - lime, sherbet, kiwi fruit, white wine, cereal and a touch of nougat. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy, some minerality, damp grass, hay, fragrant, floral, pithy, lemon, lime, crunchy green fruits, white grape, kiwi, gooseberry, toasty grains, straw, cereal, peppery spice and juniper with a bone dry finale. Average body and moderate+ foamy carbonation. This is right up my street. Good white wine / champagne vibes. Moreish and satisfying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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