Atlantic MacFoochies 7+ Scottish Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Serve in Thistle

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22 oz. bomber...pours a deep ruby-brown hue...pale tan mostly lasting head. Roasty, chocolate, herbal, faint smoke nose. Caramel, rasion, dark toffee, licorice, sweet up front, light to medium body, earthy hops, herbs thru the finish.

A nice roast, smoke, nut and caramel taste. A decent blend with a hint of hop. I liked it, but the blend of ingredients could have been netter.

This beer is one of those that you come across once in awhile where the individual rating points aren’t that special, but the overall beer is quite nice. The aroma is on the mild side with predominately the sweet roasted malt. Also some peat, toffee, dark fruit and alcohol. The beer pours a clear dark brown, almost opaque with good red highlights There is a medium creamy tan head that reduces to just a film eventually. This beer does look good in the glass. The beer has a thick creamy texture with a good amount of malt sweetness. There is a hint of smokiness and that peat earthiness. The finish is very smooth and mild with a nice alcohol warmth. This is a very smooth, mellow easy drinking beer on the slightly sweet side.

Good high-malted brew. The heather additions make this a smooth yet smokey ale without any type of bittering. Certainly a beer worth drinking, yet it’s overall syrupy mouthfeel and relatively uninteresting flavor profile keep this from being an out and out winner. Hides the alcohol well.

Picked this bottle up at State Line in Elkton, MD. Served in a SAVOR snifter. Pours a clear copper-brown color with an average off-white head and some sparse spotty lacing on the way down. The nose brings through a moderate amount of bready malt along with some light caramel and a bit of a nutty character. The flavor adds some light smoke, which works well in tandem with a bit of roast and toast. Mild character comes from the heather tips, which dry out the finish. Medium body and some fizzy carbonation. Good smoke element in the finish as well. Nice beer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 06-13-2011

Bottle pours ruby brown with almost no head, surprisingly had some decent lacing though. Aroma caramel and malts. Taste sweet malts, caramel and the heather which I agree tastes kind of asparagus-y. Sweet fairly long finish again with hops. Alcohol disguised. palate on the thin side, minimal carbonation. Not bad but I expected a little more flavor.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, light smoke, slight peat, light nuts, and slight toffee. Poured extremely deep ruby/brown in color with a small to medium-sized, creamy, dense, off-white/tan head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Lightly sparkling. Some tiny particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet and slightly medicinal. Tastes of malt, light peat, light smoke, slight bamburg wood, caramel, light cocoa, and a hint of medicine. Medium body. Slightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, caramel, light peat, and slight smoke finish is a tad dry. 7.8%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

22oz bottle Thanks decaturstevo @PreJam Gathering-pours a light brown head and dark brown color. Aroma is medium malt-licorice/ashy/coffee. Taste is peat, medium malt-licorice/ashy/coffee, secondary earthy hops.

Red-brown, beige cover. Aroma is cocoa, caramel, toasty. Taste is tobacco, cocoa, caramel, burnt toast.

2010 pre-Brewer’s Jam tasting. Pours dark rust color with beige head. Aroma is sweet caramel, some hints of honey and heather. Flavor is light caramel, little bit of toffee, odd burnt note, and some asparagus notes. Ok.

9/19/10. Bomber courtesy jtclockwork. Deep red pour with a nice tan head. A bit of an odd aroma that is sweet, burnt caramel, scotch, peat, smoke, and more. Sweet flavor again with burnt caramel leading to definite smokiness. Not bad.