3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle. Translucent brown-red color with a medium sized rocky white head. Rich malty aroma, caramel and toffee, with a heavy buttery diacetyl component. Ruddy caramel, mild toastiness, and a mellow earthen tinge in the flavor. Faint smokiness in the finish with residual stale caramel. Large diacetyl buttery pantina that threatens to overshadow the more delicate flavors. Mouthfeel is a rich medium, somewhat chewy.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 oz bottle. Very nice pour with good head retention and a nice copper color. Nose is very distinct with malts coming through nicely. Flavor is of malts with a nice roastiness. Excellent beer.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle, courtesy of argo0. Thanks, Aaron! Medium, orange-red appeance; soon headless. Candied cherries and sugar in the aroma; sticky sweet. Overly sweet, dried fruit in the mouthfeel: cherries, candy sugar, and some spice. Medium, sugary finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a transparent copper amber with a thin, wispy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of earthy sweet caramel malts with some English hops. Body starts mildly sweet and fairly full with toasted malty notes, earthy, musty hops and light citrus along with some buttery character. Not the best Scottish ale, but drinkable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Despite some of the previous comments, I thought this was a great example of scottish ale. Too often, ratebeer members compare every beer with high gravity monsters and consider anything under 8% ’boring’. I have read a lot of literature on scottish ales and have brewed several traditional recipes and they ARE rather uneventful. Nonetheless, they’re a great easy-drinking beer with delicious smokey malt flavors and the Brooklyn Brewery did a good job with this one. Cheers.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Date: 11/9/2006 (Best by April/2007) This is a copper colored ale with orange highlights. The bouquet is very woody with a hint of mushroom and top soil. Malt is certainly the focus of this brew. As the beer warms a pleasant fruitiness comes to the surface. Overall, this is a nice winter warmer without being overly sweet or full. The six pack I purchased is very fresh and many of the blah FX Matt house characters are subdued.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Hopscotch. Thanks again Eric. A bit of a peaty tase here with some sneaky underlying toffee notes. Not a bad brew. Rather thin and uneventful.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
12 oz Bottle:
This beer was good, but not great. I’m suprised to see its a scottish ale, wasn’t all that scottish to me ... agreed its a little too thin and mild overall.
Definitely a nice pour (head, carbonation, color, etc.). With a little more umph this beer could be very good. I’m no Brooklyn expert, but I agree with thie not bad, but dissapointing from Brooklyn.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark amber body with a small, thin, quickly-dissipating bubbly head, no lacing. Sweet malty aroma with a slight spiciness and notes of brown sugar. Scottish malt in the flavor... notes of peat and caramel. Acidic with flavors that are familiar to a darker beer. Too thin for a winter beer. Not bad, but dissapointing for a Brooklyn.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark amber in color with a thin white head. Malty nose, flavor is malty with a touch of dark spiciness. Not bad.
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