There's more to summer beer than flashy imported lagers. Here is a selection of flavourful Scottish brews that will leave a little sunshine on the palate.
KOWABUNGA (Pale Ale In A Half Shell)
Cromarty Brewing Co, Cromarty
Price: £2.90/500ml
ABV 4.6%
The team from Cromarty Brewing bring us this American-hopped pale ale. Kowabunga has a luscious, sweet malt base, which gives a good body to this ale.
Vigorous late hopping in the brewhouse from five varieties of hops offers a really juicy aroma and taste.
Nobody Like You (West Coast IPA)
71 Brewing, Dundee
Price: £4/440ml
ABV 6.9%
This West Coast IPA is bursting with Citra, Simcoe and Columbus hops. Dundee-based 71 Brewing has designed this IPA to evoke a big hop explosion of pine and tropical fruit with a satisfying bitter finish.
Sunset Song (Pale Ale with Elderflower)
Burnside Brewery, Aberdeenshire
Price: £2.99/500ml
ABV 5.3%
Just when you thought a pale ale couldn’t get any more refreshing, Burnside Brewery goes and adds elderflower. Sunset Song boasts sweet malt and light hops with a crisp, soft finish. Flavourful and light, this beer rounds off any meal and any occasion.
Jarl (Citra Session Blonde)
Fyne Ales Farm Brewery, Argyll
Price: £2.30/500ml
ABV 3.8%
Summer in a bottle! Jarl is packed full of balanced, vibrant grapefruit and delicate lemon flavours with a subtly grassy, refreshing finish. Jarl is an easydrinking, finely balanced session ale exploding with flavour.
Futtle: Organic Saison
Futtle Organic Brewery, East Neuk
Price: £3.50/330ml
ABV 4%
This rustic-style saison is infused with lots of banana and clove flavour from fermentation, and finished with foraged hogweed seeds for an aromatic, orange character. Futtle Organic Brewery makes a small range of organic beers in a former stable block outside St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife.
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