{"id":342,"date":"2008-05-16T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:09:35","slug":"orkney-skull-splitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/05\/16\/orkney-skull-splitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkney ‘Skull Splitter’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orkney 'Skull Splitter'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At last — he says, after a few days of data-entry — we arrive at the bit where the photo-taking habit begins in earnest. It gets a little patchy with the actual Diary<\/em> for a while, but they’ll soon synch up.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Orkney Skull Splitter. 16\/5\/08. $10 @ Malthouse 8.5%. Recommended in lieu of a Tangle Foot, out of a selection of a half-dozen. Dark, forboding, warm, seriously boozy nose. Dark fruity stuff. Datey, in a good way. Heavy, but less than you’d think. Deceptive 8.5%. Sweet. Barleywine-ish, says Barguy.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> “Barguy” in this case is Scotty, the Malthouse’s Bar Manager. I had apparently run them out of Tangle Foot, and we were on the hunt for something suitable to have instead. Obviously we drifted miles away, in style terms, but the winning factor here was that Skull Splitter hails from the same island as my beloved Highland Park whisky.<\/p>\n

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Diary entry #48, Orkney Skull Splitter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/div>\n
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Orkney 'Skull Splitter', suitably blurry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last — he says, after a few days of data-entry — we arrive at the bit where the photo-taking habit begins in earnest. It gets a little patchy with the actual Diary for a while, but they’ll soon synch up. Verbatim: Orkney Skull Splitter. 16\/5\/08. $10 @ Malthouse 8.5%. Recommended in lieu of a … Continue reading Orkney ‘Skull Splitter’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,6,19],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":303,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/12\/10\/orkney-dark-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":342,"position":0},"title":"Orkney ‘Dark Island’","author":"Phil","date":"December 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Orkney Brewery Dark Island. 10\/12\/07, $6ish, 4.6%, 500ml. 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