Beers similar to Puffin
hopIQ found 10 beers with the same nutty and bitter character as Puffin. Puffin is a burnished bronze ale, nutty, flavoursome and spicy: nutmeg, cinnamon, sweet nutty malt and dark fruit in the nose, then rich malt with fruit, caramel, coffee, herbs and spicy fruitiness, ending on bitter dark chocolate and a long, smoky bitterness. Bramling Cross and Target are the hops. Orcadians call the puffin the tammie norrie, the clown of the sea. Gold at SIBA Scotland 2026. Ranked by flavour match rather than popularity.
Closest match: Buxton Best Bitter — 70%. No twin in the catalogue yet.
4 countriesmatched across 56 flavour tagsbest match 70%




