Back Road Scottish Ale

Brewed by Back Road Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
LaPorte, Indiana USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Clear brown brew with thin disappearing head. Aroma sour aroma, maybe a little grass, brown sugar, hints of teaberry. Taste is thin, bready malt, sour grassy hops, a little bitter. Watery palate. Not as malty as I’d hope for a scottish ale and the sour / bitter hops profile with little offsetting sweetness doesn’t play out so well.

Medium amber, medium head/lacing. Maple syrup and caramel followed by light bittering at the finish. Easy to drink.

Clear amber pour. Nose is moderately roasted grain. Flavor is mild caramel/toffee, light hop bite in the finish of the herbal and earthy type. Palate is thin-bodied and underwhelming. Decent enough referesher, paired well with my wood-fired pizza, and repeatable.

bottle from citywide. Pours a clear copper with a beige head. aroma of caramel, toast, bread, candy, and dates. alcohol is well hidden. pretty good. Some slightly offputing burnt earthy bready notes, but overall a good, easy drinkin scotch ale.

12-oz. Thanks, HomebrewColin! Pours hazy amber with a lacy white head. Sweet nutty caramel taste. Light body and carbonation.

Scotch color with a filmy head. Easy malt aroma with some sweetness and alcohol pinging the nostrils. Honey malt, perhaps some caramel, and scotchy flavors. Overall, a bit too sweet for my palate, but not bad by any means.

12-oz. Thanks, Homebrew! Crystal clear medium amber. Foamy white head. No nose to speak of. Watery light body. No mid-palate, really, and not much finish. Virtually no beer here at all.

Nutty brown with some whispy tan head. The nose is dry malty with some nutty character. Pretty much the same with the flavor. Just kind of a nice approachable malt forward ale.

Bottle, slightly hazy deep amber with no head. Light grain a little toffee and grassiness in the nose. Ample toffee/caramel presence, bread and some herbal noble hop character. Pleasant level of malty sweetness. Medium to light bodied with moderate carbonation. Solid stuff.

Sample provided by kmweaver. Lightly hazy, light amber body with a tiny beige head. The nose is estery, vinous and sweet. The nose is lightly sweet with tea, brown sugar, banana and herbs. Medium/light body is soft, but thin on the finish with very light carbonation.