Isle of Skye Cuillin Beast

Cask; Occasional. Also available bottled. Skyes strongest ale, originally only brewed for the bottle but now available in cask. Its fruitiness, sweetness and dry caramel belie its strength. It was won many awards in competitions and at festivals throughout the UK. Sold bottled in America as Wee Beast.

3.2

260 reviews

Isle of Skye, Scotland

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3.2 Bottle at Gordon Highlander, Inverurie. Surprised I haven’t rated this until now! It pours hazy orange - amber with a small off-white head. The aroma is rich, malt-driven, earthy, wood, leather, cereal, toasty grain and brown bread. The taste is dry, bitter, wood, leather, dried berry, earthy, bit of spice, wood polish, dull caramel, tannin with a drying finish. Medium+ body, fine carbonation and chewy mouth-feel. Lacks the depth I would look for in this style. Enjoyable enough anyhow.

3.8 33 cl bottle of Cuillin Beast purchased at the brewery store in Uig. The clear copper body is topped by a weak, off-white head. This has an exceptionally nice aroma with traces of vanilla, spices, soft ripe fruits and caramel. The flavor follows but doesn’t have the balance or complexity of the aroma. Smooth, full body with light carbonation and some alcohol warmth.

3.8 bottle @ Keg Liquors / Clarksville IN --- Aroma of earthy malt and apple. Clear, very dense ruby brown, creamy smooth deep tan head, lace bands. Taste is creamy malt with toffee, dark fruit, light apple, and a buzz on the tip of my tongue. Medium carbonation ushers in mild hops that keep things in check. Malt and toffee bring things to a creamy close. Big and complex, each ingredient flowing smoothly to the next. And light enough to be easy to drink. Recommended.

2.6 Bottle thanks to Phil. Pours a clear orange with small white head that lasts. The aroma is fruity malt and toffee. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, metallic finish, decent.

3.2 330ml bottle @ Shrewsbury Beer Share, June 16, courtesy of purpledragons. Many thanks. Pours amber, off-white head. Aroma is light caramel. Taste has light swirling caramel, smooth malts.. nicely balanced but essentially quite a toned down, easy-going scotch ale.

3.2 1/3 pint, cask. Pours medium amber chestnut with a thin bubbly head subsiding slowly. Scent is nonexistent. Taste is light, little bit sour, bubbly. Finish is clean and sour, little bit syrup. Dry, clean. Good.

3.1 500ml bottle. Shelton product so likely stale. Brown pour, off-white head. ARoma is savory yeast, dark fruits, herbs, savory, some oxidation. Flavor is okay, heavy english yeast character, spicy herb type, some marmite, dry and toasty, caramel and fruits. Not bad but not great.

3.6 Cask at SRAF. Pours clear ruby. Nose is resin, caramel, dark fruits, sweet. Tastes sweet resin, caramel, red fruits. Quite sweet but nice.

2.8 Cask at the standing order. Pours amber with a light haze, thin head. Aromas of toffee and candied peel. Taste is sweet, toffee apples. Light sour note. Ok.

3.7 Cask and bottle. Pours pale golden, nose is chocolate, orange, taste is rich caramel, fruity.

3.3 500 ml from ABV. Pours a dark brown color with a small white head. A sweet nose of berries and toffee. The flavor is light, smoke, berries, caramel, thin woody. OK.

3.8 Cask gravity at Six Bells Woodchurch. Clear pale brown lasting white head. Sweetish malty aroma. Sweetish in the mouth. Good condition. Surprisingly hoppy on the finish. It’s rather likeable. Lovely

3.7 Tasted this in the Last Post, Paisley (JDW) in the 9th January 2014. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head which rapidly vanishes. Strong pale malt present in the short aroma with hints of white peach. Thin and resiny mouthfeel. Poor lacing throughout. Pale malt base gives a sweet short bread base with creamy peach, honeydew melon, mango and toffee notes. Good prickle of earthy hop resins noted in the short bitter aftertaste. Finish is strong and malty with alcoholic mead notes giving a warming burr to the throat. This is a decent Scottish Strong Ale and well recommended.

3.2 Bottle at the Night of Garbage, big thanks to our host with the most (stairs) LKS, 20/12/13 up a shit load of stairs ! Hazed orange amber with a good sized off white head. Nose is orange, light spice, bready malts, citric leanings. Taste comprises sharp citrus fruit, grass, straw, hint of tropical fruits, bread dough. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying closure. Ok but lacks a little depth for the ABV.

3.0 Appearance: clear, pinkish amber with a reluctant, bubbly, soapy, near white "head" of a dozen bubbles. Aroma: brown sugar, raisins, cherry pipe tobacco, leather, with just a hint of wet cardboard when you take a hair dryer to it (don’t ask). Taste: brown sugar, toffee, and caramel are most prominent, along with stone fruit, some herbal notes, and a lingering musty note. Finish: slightly sweet and boozy, with a malty undertone. Notes: Perfectly fine ESA. Buddy brought back from Skye. Good souvenir.

3.3 Bottle shared at the Night of Garbage - thanks to the Internet. Pours clear, amber-gold with a creamy white head. The nose holds candied fruits, toasty malts, dry caramel. Medium sweet flavor with dry bread, dried berries, some dirty hay, faint leafy bitterness. Medium bodied with average tonlively carbonation. Sweet finish with grainy, dry bread, some toast, orange, dried berries. Fair play.

3.1 Bottle pours a reddish amber with a slim head and sweet malty aroma as for the taste - sweet malty and hoppy with a mild bitterness to its finish.

3.7 This beer was dark and potent. Lots of sweet malts to balance the high alcohol. Caramel, dark chocolate, and dark fruits. An interesting beer. Heavy and probably best when the weather is a bit colder.

3.0 Aroma is malts, vinous notes/fruit and and smoke/burnt rubber. The flavor is malts, fruit/berries and burnt notes in the finish.

3.3 Pint in The Sanderling at Glasgow airport. A strange pale golden colour that came with a fairly large head (thought about sending it back).

3.7 Pours deep grown with red backlights and a short, tan head. Scent is caramel and cola. Taste is mildly fruity, toffee malt. A very smooth, tasty ale.

3.6 labelled Wee Beast, courtesy of Per - pours a copper-orange beer under a long lasting beige and creamy foam; the aroma is sourish with notes of raisins and almonds; clean and rounded palate; quite full-bodied, some more sourness and a long and fresh aftertaste of raisins, honey and herbs; pretty dry

3.6 Cask by handpump at Counting House, Glasgow - clear amber, creamy pale beige head , sweet malty aroma, caramel, no bitterness, good temperature

3.1 Aroma: Burnt malt, dark chocolate and orange. Appearance: Hazy, dark brown body with a small, bubbly beige head. Decent lacing. Taste: Rich and malty with hints of orange and plum. Slightly spicy, almost cinnamon-like. Strangely reminiscent of mulled wine. No bitterness in the finish. Palate: Full bodied with an oily mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. Overall: Quite a heavy beer, and not particularly moreish.

3.1 8th September 2009 Cloudy amber - brown beer. Semi dry palate. Strong malt with light toffee caramel streaks. A little fruit slips past the dominant malt in the mid. Finishes soft with mild alcoholic warmth.

3.0 AROMA: bread, toast, raisin, applejuice? APPEARANCE: amber, hazy, frothy TASTE: medium sweetness, lightly bitter, PALATE: medium body, sticky, soft carbonation, abrupt finish OVERALL: drinkable, but too thin a palate and lacks any finish, so no retry.

3.3 Bottle. Deep ruby brown with a diminishing off-white head. Sweet malty nose. More fruity malt on the flavour. Light bitterness. Not a dramatic flavour. I feel I drank it too cold. Would benefit from being warmer I think.

2.1 Cask at the NWAF, Manchester, 2012. Golden/amber pour with a white head. Not much nose, barley? A bit of fruit in the flavour, not much else. Ho hum.

2.7 Clear brown color with fine brown head that gives lacings. Fruiti aroma. Sweet dark fruit flavor. However, little homebrew taste.

1.6 Very strange beer, should it be like this? Acidic and smoky and slightly sweet malty with alcohol tones. Everything merged into a not functioning soup.