Innis & Gunn Limited Edition Highland Cask

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

2015 Vintage
330ml bottle
7.4% ABV (as written on bottle)
Milton LCBO Outlet #2 (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
The beer pours a translucent copper colour with mild effervesence and white ring for a head. The aroma is caramel, honey, oak, and some peat. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with average carbonation. The flavour is heavy on the oak and whisky, and weak on the grains, hops, and caramel.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Let me start by stating that this beer in concept could have risen in lofty potential. But to that end this ale failed. A bright copper colored beer with a big sudsy textured off white-light beige colored head. There's some hang time on that head. Light lacing left. The whiskey soaked oak is light but dominates the total profile in a light, nearly watered beer

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Clear copper pour and rocky ivory head. Nice enough aroma, but all I can detect is alcohol and maybe some caramel. Palate was sweetish, caramel and malt, alcohol later and also at the finish. Decent mouthfeel. This one does nothing spectacular, but is a nice enough beer all the same. Tastes like every other I & G offering, only the packaging varies.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Wow-14th percentile before my score. Not a world beater, but a decent beer. I actully enjoyed everything but the nose, which was slightly skunked. The sweet & peaty whiskey flavor was nice. Still light- medium bodied at 7%. Not too complex, but pretty good.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Strong aroma has a firm overtone of whisky-soaked wood, plus hints of malt and caramel. It pours a clear coppery with an average white head. Malty, slightly fruity flavor has a woody overtone and a firm whisky note. Texture has average body but a good amount of persistent fizz. Definitely worth at least a try.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

From bottle @ Boyd's Jig & Reel in Knoxville: clear light copper/amber pour with slight off-white head, ample lacing. At first the aromas where very underwhelming - light toffee and butterscotch, some clear bottle skunkiness, sweet malts, very very light whiskey - then we let it warm quite a bit. The whiskey is still mellow but comes through when warmed. Taste is still a bit weak with a toffee and caramel sweetness, light on the sweetness though, then underwhelming whiskey and a very slight alcohol linger. Didn't hate it is much as some of the previous reviewers but I also wouldn't plunk down good money for it again.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Just damn near undrinkable... managed to consume about half before the drain pour. Thin texture and oddly sticky sweet. Caramel color. Aroma and flavor of very pronounced - and nasty alcohol. Could bought a sixer of High Life and been happier.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

waste of my money and time. nice colour, nice attempt. Maybe it needed to be in the oak longer, like a lot longer. Fail. but I need a longer comment, so I'll keep typing. My boyfriend's back and there's gonna be trouble. Yeah, my boyfriend's back.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Pours an amber-copper colour with a decent creamy off-white head that stays a while and leaves lacing all around. Very lightly carbonated. The nose is pretty sweet with butterscotch and toffee. There are also notes of vanilla from the oak and hints of spices like cinnamon. The toffee is in the taste as well but not as sweet as I thought. No burn in the mouthfeel and overall pretty smooth. Quite a nice experiment with these 21 year old barrels of Highland, but nothing worth continuing in their line of brews.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Bottle: POurs a dark amber ale in the glass...tight 1 finger cap with moderate retention. Aroma is weird: Sweetish - toffee, Caramel, oak, vanilla, some fusel, leafy hops with a sour under tone that pervades the nose. Tastes pretty much like it smells....oaky, vanilla, hops truncated,an all encompassing saccharine sweetness seems too prominent...watery sweet finish. Not my kind of beer.