Erie Brewing Ol Red Cease & Desist Scottish Ale

Brewed by Erie Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Erie, Pennsylvania USA

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.

red, aminimal head, lightly bitter, medium body, lively, Strong finish reminded me alot of Sam Adams Scotch ale. This definetly being more potent.

Well, at 10.1% by vol. its a little potent. Nice red color but not clear. Head is small and gone shortly after poor. Slight grape aroma(fruit), tangy with a tinge of that Wee Heavy alcohol flavor. Good Scott ale. Great winter warmer.

2006 release (Red Ryder Big Beer). Small 2 year vertical with the 07. This one has a deeper color, better head, and more carbonation. Smells freaking beautiful, almost like a Belgian barleywine. Strong dark fruits and sugars in the nose. Incredibly vinous, with no trace of oxidization. It tastes very light and gentle actually, again (as I noted with the 07) very Doppelbock like. Dark fruits and caramel, some cardboard, some roastiness. Spicy peppers and almost curry as well. Aged well in my opinion, and since they tweaked the recipe for the Ol’ Red (upped the alcohol too), it’s prime for aging now. I kept the score for the 2007 up. 2006 score: Aroma - 9. Appearance - 4. Flavor - 9. Palate - 3. Overall - 17. Total - 4.2. ---- 2007 release: Courtesy of foureyedgeek. Pours a kinda boring amber with no head to speak of. Good clarity though. Smells caramel and sweet, slight oxidized (but not in a bad way), with strong woody, almost whiskey aromas. Super sweet, almost cloying. Very hot. Caramel, nutty, toffee, some chocolate. Dark fruits in the finish. Quite strong tasting, borderline overwhelming. To me this tastes like more of a beefed up Doppelbock (i.e. Samiclaus) than a Scotch Ale. Full of fusel alcohols. Leaves almost a liquor like sensation in the chest. Needs a little more time to mellow, but I dig it now.

12 oz. Thanks Juart. Pours a deep red with a touch of amber. Had a little bit of fizz, but really no head. Strong malt nose with some alcohol, and a lot of sweetness. The alcohol is hidden pretty well. Very sweet taste with a little bit of toffee and alcohol bitterness. There was a bit of a fruity finish. Very little carbonation and adding a little bit could have helped out the body some.

Who brought this beer to Eugene’s? - thank you, whoever you are - red beer, with a frothy head - sticky malt aroma, with caramel and cinnamon - overly sweet, with slight spicy notes - slightly doughy - pretty ambiguous all around, with heavy sweetness - a dry peaty character develops as it warms, but still fails to balance it.

12 oz bottle. Pours a typical deep amber, low carbonation and a thinning head. Aroma is very sweet with caramel and artificial sweetener, some light oxidation, and some fruitiness. Sharp astringency from the crystal malts- harsh caramel- some burning acridness and a bit of rubbery phenols and plastic in the end. Not as bad as it could have been coming from Erie.