5 Seasons Westside Scotch Abbey

Brewed by 5 Seasons Westside
Style: Scotch Ale
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Serve in Thistle

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Clear golden red with no head. Dark fruit raisin toffee and molasses aroma and taste with a mild tartness and citrus in the finish.

Tulip glass pour at the brewpub in Atlanta, Georgia. Pour is garnet brown with a 1/2 inch off white head. Aroma is roast, caramel malt along with fruit (cherry skin) sweetness. Taste is roast caramel malt, along with cherry banana sweet yeast. Palate is medium heavy, pretty mouth coasting, with a finish of lingering sweet yeast. 36

Nice dark clear brown with ring of white head. Nose is fair. Flavors of dark rum soaked fruits, plums, raisin, and even a wierd bubblegum. lots of alcohol heat. I kinda liked where this could have gone, but they just couldnt capitalize on it.

This is a sweet beer. Rich malty caramels and other darkened sugar flavors. There’s not a lot of hop character at all (which doesn’t surprise me given the name), but there is a bit of evidence that this is a stronger beer.

Pours mahogany dark brown with thin light tan head. Aroma is rich with maple, chocolate, and sweet malts. Flavor is sweet and malty with caramel and subtle toffee. Malty finish with soft fruit, hints of berry, subtle chocolate, and malty sweetness. Mouthfeel is rich and lightly syrupy, interrupted by carbonation and mild acidity. Overall, a very nice dessert beer, sweet with right level of carbonation.

Pours an opaque chocolaty brown with a thick, fine-bubbled beige head. Rich, malty, fruity aroma has a yeasty and rubbery undertone. Richly malty and yeasty flavor is subtly fruity and sweet with smoky hints. Lively, fizzy texture has a good bite to it. Recommended.

sample on 4/1/10... pours a dark red with a big off white head... fruity and yeast aromas... with some light cherry notes... medium body, soft up front and more fruit on the sides... a touch of tartness on the end... smooth finish with a sweet body... very nice Scotch Ale.

UPDATED: APR 24, 2010
Date: January 12, 2010
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black, frothy beige head, sudsy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, fruity esters, touch of smokey roast
Flavor: rich malt flavor, touch of chocolate, sweet fruity esters, light smoke, earthy bitterness

Date: February 07, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Aroma: lightly sweet caramel and brown sugar aroma
Flavor: dry caramel and chocolate flavor, lots of drying earthyness, light spicy phenols

Date: April 22, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Aroma: sweet and fruity chocolate aroma, toucy of roast
Flavor: sweet fruity flavor, dark fruits, caramel sweetness, touch of spicyness, light earthyness, big peaty smokeyness emerges, sweet fruity esters grows as it warms

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

Hazed brown/orange pour. Brown sugar, sweet malt and yeast on the nose. Brown sugar, yeasty, with a light sour finish. Medium bodied with very light carbonation.

on tap-pours a tan head and cloudy brown color. Aroma is medium malt-roasty/peat, medium/dark fruit, yeast. Taste is medium malt-roasty/peat, medium/dark fruit, yeast, earthy hops.