Erie Brewing Ol Red Cease & Desist Scottish Ale

Pours a transparent copper amber with a thin, spotty-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet caramely malt with a touch of grainy notes, earthy hops, and some alcohol. Body starts with decent fullness and earthy toasty notes with a touch of peat and some warming peppery alcohol toward the finish. A pretty decent Scotch ale, but could hide the alcohol a little better.

Pours an amber red color with a tan head. Aroma is malty, toasty, and some earthy hops. Flavor is malty, caramel, toast, and a bitter earthy finish.

12oz bottle. Ruby red-brown color. Rich and creamy with an alcohol infused sweetness. Not overly syrupy or hoppy, this one is all rich honey/amber malt and alcohol. I sampled it twice on draft at Max’s and was much more impressed with it then. A pretty decent Wee Heavy,

Poured from a 12oz bottle and served in a snifter. This beer poured a dark burgandy/brown hue with a thin head of tannish yellow foam that quickly settled into a mostly lasting layer. The aroma of the beer was made up of brown sugar, sweet caramel, and some dark fruits. The flavor included caramelized sugars, plums, light smoke, and some warming alcohol. The mouthfeel was full-bodied but seemed a bit thin for a big beer. The carbonation was moderately aggressive. A pretty decent Scotch ale, and highly drinkable despite the high ABV.

Labelled Red Ryder. After trying two different Erie brews, I was looking forward to this one. Pour was dark cherry amber with smallish head and no lacing. Weak aroma of sweet malt. The flavor was loads of sweet sticky malts, brown sugar and some mild fruity aspects. Way sweet and a little tough to drink. The other Erie brews were very interesting, this one was dull and one dimensional. Tasted like a handful of other Americanized low end scottish ales (or even dopplebocks) that lack any earthy or smokeyness to balance out all the sweet.

Eeech! Despite the rating average that I saw when I went to this beer’s page (which gives my answer to many a question on the threads), I like this brew.
Very handsome pour, a clear ruby body, well carbonated, topped by a creamy beige head. The aroma is sweet with scents of maltose and red cherries and fresh apples and rich caramel counterposed by pine and grapefruit hops, quiet but doing the job. Very fresh fruity flavor accompanied by a caramel/toffee sweetness against which the hoppy bitterness battles nearly in vain. The finish carries a fruity sweetness and a low alcohol burn. I was taken aback by the latter, still finding it difficult to belive its recorded ABV. Very nice.
Very nice beer, and way too complex for the likes of <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=19069>drewbeerme to appreciate.

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bottle courtesy of The Captain. thanks Mark.. pours a ruby red with one finger of tan head that quickly subsides to a thin ring around the edge of the glass. smells sweet and piney. has a peculiar flavor as alcohol singes the nose it transforms from a bitter grapefruit to a sweet caramel and quickly back to bitter again. finishes short and tangy. has a very fuzzy feeling on your tongue. unlike any Scotch ale I’ve ever had, but if you can put it put it out of your head of what it is supposed to be it really is fairly interesting.

Chemically smell coming off of this one. It’s a reddish brown color with small off-white head. It’s pretty sweet but with a corky sourness. Slightly bourbon-esque. Not bad but not great either, though it’s actually kind of growing on me since the first sip.