Coeur d’Alene Scottish Ale

Formerly brewed at Coeur d’Alene Brewing Company
Style: Scottish Ale
Coeur d Alene, Idaho USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Cask at the Steam Plant Spokane. Pours a deep copper color with a nice white head. Aroma is caramel, malt/ peated malt. Flavor was malty, caramel, peated malt, nutty, a touch of hops and slight sour notes. Easy to drink, but nothing special.

On tap at the brewpub in Coeur d’Alene in August 2009. Couldn’t put this review in with the rest of my backlog earlier, as this place was listed as closed for a period of time. Diacetyl, diacetyl, diacetyl. Pours a light brown color with about a millimeter’s worth of head with no real retention or lacing. From there on out, it only gets worse. The nose is really faint malt that’s almost entirely covered up by diacetyl. The taste is buttered popcorn. The finish is buttered popcorn. Not much else to say other than that this was pretty awful though, sadly, was not the worst of the bunch I had that day. Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 11-30-2010

Draught at the brewpub (Spokane, WA location). Hazy nut brown, no head. Clean and caramelly with simple malt profile and low hop rate. Lightly toasty with some molasses and notes of blueberry. Low bitterness.

5 oz sample at brewpub. Clear amber, frothy beige head. Aroma of biscuit, caramel, light fruit. Taste is rich and toasty with lots of sweet bready malt. Minimal hop presence, very smooth solid beer.

On tap at The Steam Plant
Appearance: Dark brown with a small white head that dissolves in minutes, some lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, vanilla
Taste: Slightly roasted malts with some hints of vanilla
A good drinkable beer, clean and crisp

Tap @ Alehouse: Auburn pour with a modest beige head. Earthy aroma was malty, peat, and nutty. Tastes of peat, nuts, toffee, and roast. Rather earthy, but still retained that English sweetness. Again a nice ale from CDA.

Copper to brown in color. Aromas of toasted malt with a hint of hopsack. Earthy caramel flavors in the front. Middle picks up some traditional english hops. Finish has a bit of chocolate and earthiness. A strong amber.

Taster - Coeur D’Alene Brewing - Coeur D’Alene, ID
Aroma – Dark roasty malt aroma. Very little hops in the nose.
Appearance – Dark mahogany in color, thin head and clear.
Flavor – Nice easy to drink roasted malt flavor balanced with the hops for flavor.
Palate – Good Mouthfeel, nice texture with a dry finish.
Overall – Nice easy to drink Scottish ale .

Tap @ Brewpub: Mahogany ruby, light tan head and nice lacing. Toasty and roasty nose, chewy melanoidins with a balanced hop bite. Roasty like a porter even but with a chewy caramel and cocoa flavor. Pleasant and ample bitter balance.

Copper with no head. Aroma was boggy with a grassy peat nose. Some caramel flavour and some peat and grass and nuts and just basically a boggy all over the place beer.