Douglas Celtic Brown

Brewed by John Martin (Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Scotch Ale
Genval, Belgium

Serve in Thistle

330 ml bottle. From finestshop.be.
Clear dark reddish brown colour with big off-white fluffy head. Soy sauce, caramel, brown sugar and malt in aroma. Not bad. Flavour is alcoholic but not in the worst kind of way. Dark malt, some caramel sweetness, mild soy sauce, mild bitterness and dryish... something. Not very complex but still enjoyable Scotch Ale.

(33cl bottle, BB 30/03/12) Pours a clear amber body with a medium creamy beige head and nice lacing. Aroma of caramel, mustiness, roasted malt, and raisins. Flavor of raisins, roasted malt, caramel, and toasted grain.

Bouteille 330ml, dégustée au Bistro des Bières Belges à Saint-Hubert. De couleur brune-rouge et claire. Nez malté de caramel toffee sucré, léger de fruits (prunes, traces de raisins) avec des notes de houblon herbeux, de sucre brun, de biscuits et d’alcool. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture légèrement crémeuse et aux notes sirupeuses. Goût légèrement fruité (léger de raisins, traces de prunes) accompagné de traces de tabac lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût malté de caramel toffee sucré et légèrement rôti avec des traces de biscuits, de sucre brun et de chocolat noir puis en finale l’on retrouve une moyenne amertume d’alcool doux, léger de houblon herbeux avec des traces de noix asséchantes. Post-goût moyen-long et aux notes sèches, moyennement amer d’alcool doux avec des notes de houblon herbeux, de noix, de rôti et de fruits (moût de raisins). (printemps 2007)

Huge, dark-beige head, over chestnut-coloured beer. (Dark) mushrooms, dark malts, brown candi sugar, bit lactic. Again burnt brown candi sugar, with a little nasty burnt-bitterish edge. No balance, but clashing with the underlying syrupy sweetness, as brown candi syrup. Human sweat warming up. Slick to syrupy, seriously carbonated feel, and in fact finishing empty. Weak, in all aspects.

Sia al naso che in bocca è monotematica, malto e caramello estremamente invadenti quanto stucchevoli. Impossibile berne più di una piccola.

(Bottled) Beautiful, deep dark red color with a smallish but firm, tanned and lacy head. Very toffee-malty, even diacetylic-buttery nose with dried fruit and some sweetness. Flavor is toffeeish, grainy malt - lots of it - with moderate residual sweetness and dried, plummy fruitiness. Medium to full body, soft and lowish CO2. A good and clean Scotch Ale, but lacks somewhat in the complexity department. 5347

Bottle in Brussels. Dark brown body with puffy tan head. Nose of vanilla, spices, malts. Taste of vanilla, malts, caramel and fruits. Quite nice with a butterscotch finish.

330 ml bottle a dark brown colored beer with a white head aroma roasted malts caramel and spicy flavor malts bit roasted caramel spicy some dry fruits and some bitter