Single Malt Ale
Islay Ale Co. Ltd.
- From:
- Islay Ale Co. Ltd.
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.27 | pDev: 6.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 07, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 10, 2007
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by John_M from Washington
3.52/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Picked up a bottle at the brewery tasting room during a recent visit to Islay to tour the distilleries.
The beer pours light tan amber gold color with pretty good head retention and lacing. On the nose, there's a pronounced sweet malt aroma, coupled with some light ginger and burnt toast. The flavor profile replicates the nose pretty closely in this moderately sweet beer, with a finish that's quite dry and showing more of the burnt toast character. Mouthfeel is fairly light, with a clean dry finish. You can tell the abv. is not all that high in this beer (5% abv. according to the label). Alcohol is pretty well integrated into the flavor profile, and so drinkability is pretty decent.
Nothing spectacular here, but even so, I thought this an enjoyable, easy to appreciate ale from this new to me brewery. It went down pretty easily while watching game 3 of the NBA finals, and went well with the home made guac I was eating.
Jun 07, 2018The beer pours light tan amber gold color with pretty good head retention and lacing. On the nose, there's a pronounced sweet malt aroma, coupled with some light ginger and burnt toast. The flavor profile replicates the nose pretty closely in this moderately sweet beer, with a finish that's quite dry and showing more of the burnt toast character. Mouthfeel is fairly light, with a clean dry finish. You can tell the abv. is not all that high in this beer (5% abv. according to the label). Alcohol is pretty well integrated into the flavor profile, and so drinkability is pretty decent.
Nothing spectacular here, but even so, I thought this an enjoyable, easy to appreciate ale from this new to me brewery. It went down pretty easily while watching game 3 of the NBA finals, and went well with the home made guac I was eating.
Reviewed by MillRat from Illinois
3.28/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.28/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Another beer from that pacakge shop about 1/2 km east of the Taipei 101 tower. Note to the site, this edition (expiry of Dec 2010) is marked 5.0% ABV. Interesting, a commercial SMaDH beer: single malt, double hop. Gotta give the guys at Islay Ales props for putting a beer on the street that gives them nowhere to hide. At least in its latest incarnation, the hopping lewvel ought to bump this up to an IPA classification, not sure if I'd go with English or left coast, though, they've got their hop hands on both shores of the pond.
A nice gold color with a very active head (just about baptized my keyboard) that develops a meringue-like chunkiness and has more lace than a Victoria's Secret store. Aroma is all about the hops, with the unique grapefruitiness of the Amarillo getting center stage. Flavor is once again about the hops with the Bramling Cross getting its say, too. The malt just keep this medium-grade hopfest from being too puckery. A decent body on the light side of medium, well done for a single malt brew. With a little less hop-centric profile this might be sessionable, but those hops leave you taste buds a bit beat up.
All this beer needs is either a bit more restraint on the hops or a more assertive malt to go from OK to good. For a single-malt beer, the mashing was precisely where it needed to be, and if BA rated only single malt beers, this would have had a 5 in that category.
Jul 30, 2010A nice gold color with a very active head (just about baptized my keyboard) that develops a meringue-like chunkiness and has more lace than a Victoria's Secret store. Aroma is all about the hops, with the unique grapefruitiness of the Amarillo getting center stage. Flavor is once again about the hops with the Bramling Cross getting its say, too. The malt just keep this medium-grade hopfest from being too puckery. A decent body on the light side of medium, well done for a single malt brew. With a little less hop-centric profile this might be sessionable, but those hops leave you taste buds a bit beat up.
All this beer needs is either a bit more restraint on the hops or a more assertive malt to go from OK to good. For a single-malt beer, the mashing was precisely where it needed to be, and if BA rated only single malt beers, this would have had a 5 in that category.
Reviewed by mdagnew from Northern Ireland
3.01/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.01/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle bought from GapWines, Belfast...
Poured a light golden orange colour. Creamy head poured tight, thick and meringue like then faded slowly to good thick covering. Very sparse carbonation drifts slowly to the surface... quite a lot of thick sticky lacing...
Aroma - Pretty bland - hard to make anything out... light pale biscuity malts, sea salt notes, faint citrus fruits (lime, grapefruit, sour apples), wet grass, light ginger spiciness, floral hop notes...
Taste Quite strong floral and citrus hop bitterness - maybe a little on the harsh side... tart fruits (grapefruits, pears, sour apples), very faint biscuit / toffee malts just about noticeable, sea salt and black pepper notes, no real sweetness, faint tobacco hints...
Feel - Sharp and very dry... light bodied.. fairly refreshing but maybe a little harsh to be enjoyable..
Overall - A strange and quite bland ale... maybe worth a try once but it's nothing to go out of your way for...
Dec 10, 2007Poured a light golden orange colour. Creamy head poured tight, thick and meringue like then faded slowly to good thick covering. Very sparse carbonation drifts slowly to the surface... quite a lot of thick sticky lacing...
Aroma - Pretty bland - hard to make anything out... light pale biscuity malts, sea salt notes, faint citrus fruits (lime, grapefruit, sour apples), wet grass, light ginger spiciness, floral hop notes...
Taste Quite strong floral and citrus hop bitterness - maybe a little on the harsh side... tart fruits (grapefruits, pears, sour apples), very faint biscuit / toffee malts just about noticeable, sea salt and black pepper notes, no real sweetness, faint tobacco hints...
Feel - Sharp and very dry... light bodied.. fairly refreshing but maybe a little harsh to be enjoyable..
Overall - A strange and quite bland ale... maybe worth a try once but it's nothing to go out of your way for...
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