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Innis & Gunn

🌍 Scotland · Known for American IPA · Scottish Ale
Known for American IPA · Scottish Ale

Edinburgh brewery famous for pioneering oak-aged beer. The Original is aged in American oak whisky casks, creating a unique vanilla and toffee character. Now Scotland's biggest craft beer export.

3Beers
3Styles
6.3%Avg ABV
2003Founded

Beers by Innis & Gunn

3 beers
Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 3 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 3 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
oak
2 of 3 beers
caramel
2 of 3 beers
hoppy
2 of 3 beers
vanilla
2 of 3 beers

With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied3 beers · 3 style families
IPA 1Amber 1Pale Ale 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 469 other breweries making American IPA and Scottish Ale.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for American IPA and Scottish AleInnis & Gunn
in no beersin every beer
vanilla
in 2 of 3 · typical American IPA and Scottish Ale brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more vanilla than typical.
oak
in 2 of 3 · typical American IPA and Scottish Ale brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more oak than typical.

Across 3 beers in 3 style families, 2 traits still carry through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 74%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 3
beers above the median
#3410
best ranked beer
Blood Orange IPA

Their beers place in the Top 74% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Innis & Gunn

Edinburgh brewery famous for pioneering oak-aged beer. The Original is aged in American oak whisky casks, creating a unique vanilla and toffee character. Now Scotland's biggest craft beer export.

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