3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bouteille 341 mL. Brun-roux foncé sans mousse. Odeur de malt et de gâteau aux fruits confits. Peu de carbonation en bouche, avec goût prononcé de mélasse et fruits confits sans être lourd. Bonne longueur en bouche.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
from le Mondial de la Bière 2011, Strasbourg - cloudy dark brown beer with a little long lasting beige foam; nice lacework; complex and very malty aroma with notes of caramel, hazelnuts and spices, hints of vanilla and plums; full-bodied and very tasty, some sweetness and a decent tart bitterness on top of a fair carbonation; slightly dry and long spicy malty toffeish aftertaste with warming alcohol notes -- an absolute beauty
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is milky sour, caramel, alcohol. Flavour is malt, alcohol, caramel, nuts. Ordinary beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
341 ml bottle. Fluffy white head, dark orange color. Caramel malts, cinnabon and oak. Pretty sweet, still, balanced by a higher than average saltiness. Low carbonation.
A decent brew: Yes. Worth 6,99$ ? No.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
#1029 Bottle; Nose is leaves, mediumsour malt, weak chloride, wood chip, feel is mediumwatery, carb is medium, taste is sour plum, some wet hops, cooked vegetables,
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
341 mL bottle courtesy of my 2011 Secret Santa, JulienHuxley. Thanks! Pours a hazy dark red color with a large frothy tan head. Good head retention. Big fruity notes in the aroma including strawberry, citrus, candied citrus and berries. Faint toffee notes. The taste is tart fruits. Berries, strawberry, plum, citrus, caramel. Medium bodied. Some booze. Interesting, but not quite what I’m expecting from a Scotch Ale.
Looking now at some other ratings of this and I’m not getting any of the notes others raters are, so I assume this bottle is off. Sad. At least its still drinkable.
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Une découverte. Arôme de malt enveloppant, de grains fraîchement moulus et présence d’une arôme d’alcool subtile. Houblonnée sans exagération, très bien balancée, de loin une des meilleures bière que j’ai goûté. Elle s’apparente à une belge forte. Dépasse mes attentes. Une bière excellente made in Quebec!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Nice deep amber coloured body with a nice fresh ruby and copper tint and a thinnish tan head. Aroma of nuts, smoke, a touch of earthy hops, dirt, alcohol and quite a bit of toffee - nice pungent aroma. Full-bodied; Strong earthy and nutty flavour at first with a great complex backbone and almost a spicey bite with some light oak, a little hay and grassy flavours and finishing with alcohol. Aftertaste shows a good complexity with a lot of good earthy flavours at first with alcohol showing soon afterwards and some nice oaky characteristics. Overall, a nice pungent and complex scottish that shows very well - perhaps one of the best I’ve had from the style ever. I sampled this 341 mL bottle purchased from Best Cellars in Arlington, Virginia (Since closed) on 04-July-2011 for US$7.99 sampled in New Paltz, New York on 10-December-2011. Bottled Since Feb 1, 2010? (on bottom of bottle).
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