2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
draft... pours a clear medium orange with a bit of copper, weird looking scotch ale... tastes ok, light caramel with a bit of an earthy finish... average
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Served on draft at the Smokehouse location. Pours a clear amber color with a medium sized creamy head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of leafy and citrus hops with faint malts. The taste is toffeeish malts and citrus hops. Thin-medium bodied. A little on the hoppy side for a Scottish but I liked it.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
On tap at the Oakroom during OBW. Pours clear caramel golden/light copper wiht off-white head. Some lacing, sticky texture, and medium body. Taste is typical scottish ale caramel malt.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
5 oz sampler at the brew pub (#2) in Columbus, Ohio. Pour is slight haze golden with a smallish white head. Aroma is light caramel sweetness, along with just a whisper of earthiness and some iced tea. The taste is mostly the sweetness up front, caramel toffee, followed behind with the mineral cracker malt of the nose. A bit sweet, but clean and fresh tasting. Palate is medium to light bodied, lower carbonation level, mineral and more of the sweetness. Nice enough.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at Barleys Ale House #1, Columbus OH, March 2010. Amber colour. Caramel in the aroma. Sweet on the palate. Some toffee. Competent but not really my thing. Rather cloying. I found it rather hard going.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Interesting flavors, but a kind of odd mix. A little too carbonated for the style and flavor. Pale color, subtle carmel and malty sweetness with a sweetish finish, a bit of apple in the finish. It’s OK.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draft at the Smokehouse. Very light for style. Medium hoppy aroma and light hop character. Only a slick full malt backdrop fits this beer’s name ... In a blind panel I’d have thought this a Maibock. (#3847, 2/19/2010)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Sample at the Smokehouse. Semi-opaque copper color with a medium white head. Malty and caramelly aroma with a teeny bit of hop and some fruit. Carmamel malt flavor with some fruit and that same teeny bit of hop. Not bad, but not outstanding.
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