Central Waters Sláinte Scottish Style Ale

Brewed by Central Waters Brewing Co.
Style: Scottish Ale
Amherst, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Pours a dark ruby brown with an active tan head. Darned near opaque. Lots of sweetness in the aroma. Taste is toffee, caramel and some roasted maltiness. Long residuals in the creamy palate. Quite excellent!

UPDATED: FEB 3, 2013 Great beer--picked it up in a Four Firkins mix your own 6 pack without having heard of it before--pleasantly surprised

Brown pour small soapy head. Rich roast malt aroma. Some light syrups a touch of raw grains a light hippy finish some defining scotch ale character. Full well coated palate. Loved it.

Bottle, pours murky, dirty brown with moderate off-white head. Nose is sweet-ish caramel malts, hint of smoke, dark, rich toffee. Slight brine to the taste, with a bit of chocolate blending with the roasted malts. Exceptionally creamy mouthfeel, long finish. Crazy flavor for how mild this is. Outstanding.

Deep mahogany brown. Small sustained creamy tan head. Aroma of brown sugar, molassas, roasted malt, chocolate. Flavor maintains nose and adds a little bitter coffee and peat. Medium clean body. lots of carbonation, Twangy slightly smokey finish.

Bottle, dark brown with small mocha head. Oak, vanilla, malt, toffee, sweet nose. Taste is big malt, peat, sweet caramel, dry oak on the finish. Creamy moderate body with a light crisp carbonation.

12oz bottle. Unfiltered, deep, opaque, amber-brown. Thick, creamy, beige head. Mellow malty aroma, maybe a touch of fruity vanilla, amber malt. Wow, this is really quite well done. Creamy, smooth caramel and chocolate malt tones, very rich. Relatively true to style, maybe a little heavier on the specialty malts. Some red fruit and nuttiness. A lot of depth, well made beer. Solid.

Bottle courtesy of nuplastikk, thanks! Deep brown color, almost headless. Aroma of burnt creme brulee and dark cocoa. Taste is rich, sweet, malty with an edge of smoke and toast. Very tasty.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle from Heritage Liquors in Maplewood, MN. Pours a dark orangish brown copper ale with a thick beige head that slowly dissipates to a clean disk with some minor spotty lacing. Aroma of heavy caramel malt, a hint of toffee-like fudge, and a little white pepper. Taste is quite smooth, medium to full bodied, flavors of some lightly smoked dark malts, chocolate, caramel and light vanilla. Finish is still smooth with an aftertaste of dark caramel, with a touch of white pepper and mild bitterness. A touch more body and spicy bitterness compared to the retired CW Loch Ness Scotch Ale.

Should we quibble that this Scottish Ale comes from a region that’s solidly Norwegian with a few Germans and Poles to round out the ethnic mix? I think not. It’s a full-flavored malt-dominated ale that foams up nicely above a near ruby red color. Central Waters is almost always at its best when they let the malts do the talking.