 Jfishback13 (271), Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Apr 5, 2004 Damn... they didn't play around with this beer. The best Scotch Ale I've ever had. Nice and thick, tasty, hoppy, and sweet. Just a wonderfully balanced beer.
beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Oct 2, 2006 Deep, dark, leather brown, nearly black with a inch high capping of dark tanned foam that keeps breifly before settling to an always present fluffy collar. Drippy lacing with some large spots sticking.
Aroma of dark molasses, dark chocolate, firmly roasted, mostly chocolate with a peaty herbalness and a slight figgy/date, dark fruityness, black licorice, and coffee notes.
Taste is bold and flavorful with a good load of chocolate tones across the palate laced with dark cherry, fig, and dark, damp wet wood. Very leveled flavors and tones are set along the path of yummy goodness with a subtle drying finish where the roast makes its way in with slivers of coffee and more chocolate cream.
Smooth, efficient, solid medium body with a creamy flow of soothing maltyness thats enriched with chocolate and dark fruity undertones.
A solid Scotch Ale! Drinkable and surely enjoyable.
keoki182 (298), West Bend, Wisconsin, USA
Aug 13, 2006 This was a very, very good brew. On tap at Great Taste of the Midwest festival. Poured deep red/brown. Smelled very malty and sweet. Better than McEwan’s scotch ale, just under Founders Dirty Bastard. Very easy to drink. Peaty goodness hide in aftertaste, letting you know it is indeed a scotch-style ale.
xav33 (313), Midland, MI, Michigan, USA
Oct 13, 2006 Dragonmead Under The Kilt Wee Heavy
12 oz bottle
Recent bottling, peeked under 10/06
Medium pour in an English pint glass.
Poured ruddy with a medium very light brown creamy mostly lasting head with good lacing.
Smelt of strong raisins, light toastiness, some spices.
Taste was upfront bitter sweet raisins, with coffee like accents, followed by a heavy coffee bitterness in tandem with the continuing raisiny spicyness on a lengthy finish of mostly bitter dark chocolate and light fruitiness. Mouthfeel was light to medium, oily then dry, fizzy and lightly astringent.
Overall, an easy drinking powerfully tasting Scotch ale. Maybe a little light on complexity.
jtw (903), farmington, Michigan, USA
Nov 14, 2004 deep deep brown with a light colored head, leaves the tiniest bit of lace on the glass. roasty smoky aroma, like a piece of burnt maple has been soaking in it. lots of caramel and burned sugar/molasses flavor, with a touch of bitterness to balance it all out. phenomenal, on par with 3 floyds Robert the Bruce--or better.
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