Welcome to Orkney Brewery

Dark Island is an iconic beer. A gold standard-bearer for crafted premium Scottish Ales.  It almost needs no introduction. 

It offers ripe, fruity and roast coffee aromas with flavours of dark chocolate, dates and nuts, from the combination of roasted malts and robust hops. 

Dark, intense and full-flavoured, it is our tribute to the Vikings and their cultural legacy in Orkney. The first thing to touch the islands would have been their long ship's Dragonhead. 

Dragonhead is brimming over with rich roast malt and roast barley flavours. Aromas of bitter chocolate, roast coffee and spicy dark fruits are complemented by a complex, bitter blend of hop varieties. 

Dark Island reserve is a rich strong Orcadian Ale. After a gentle fermentation at our brewery in Quoyloo, the beer is finished in old oak casks formerly used to mature fine scotch malt whisky. This unhurried process creates a timeless classic full of fruit, spice, oak and roast malt flavours. 

Skull Splitter is one of our strongest beers, named after Thorfinn Einarsson the 7th Viking Earl of Orkney.  

It is a sophisticated, satiny smooth and full flavoured beer. It has a rich fruity wine-like complexity with flavours of fresh and dried fruits, warm exotic spice and mellow summer fruity notes. 

Red MacGregor is a mighty beer indeed a celebration of one of Scotland's true historic heroes.  It was one of the first beers in Scotland that expressively used the American hop Cascade for citrusy fruit flavour.

It has a wonderfully complex aroma of fruity hop zest, spiciness and rich malts.  This beer offers initial toasted caramel malt aromas and flavours then mouth-watering citrus hop fruits giving way to a clean, fruity, refreshing hop bitterness. 

Refreshingly crisp with zesty sweet lemon, mandarin, and apricot on the palate balanced by a juicy malt background.