General Lafayette Loch Ness Monster

Formerly brewed at Copper Crow Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Thistle

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Pours a clear orange-brown with a small off-white head, aroma has oranges, toffee and brown sugar, medium bodied, average carbonation, long sweet aftertaste.

Draft. Pours brown with a beige head. Sweetish malty aroma with some lighter earthy notes. The flavor has sweet malts, candy sweetness, and some earthy notes. Tasty and well balanced.

On draft at the brewpub. Pours a dark yet clear rusty orange amber with a small off white head. Aroma of buttery notes, barley, and candied malts. Taste of buttery notes, candied malt, tangy hops, earth and grains.

Malty aroma on this brown pour. Taste sweet, like sugar and fruit. Too sweet for my liking, most scotches are a little more on the robust side than this one. Smooth and tasty nonetheless.

On tap at the brewpub. Pretty flat, dark brown pour. Butter, caramel, prune, and some hoppy nip. This Nessie is an average scotch ale.

Thin head of dense and creamy bubbles. Light carbonation. Awesome aroma loaded with sweet malts, vanilla, malted milk balls, dark fruit and some milk chocolate. Color is a dark brown. Luscious flavor. Lots of malts, milk chocolate, caramel and a hint of peat. No real smokiness which is unfortunate. Chewey palate but silky smooth and goes does so easy. Mild alcohol presence. Finishes smooth and malty. A very fine scotch ale. Glad I was able to make it out to sample this one.

Date: 02/13/2007
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting

clear dark burgendy, scant head, sweet smokey malt aroma, rich malt flavor, lots of chocolate, only a touch of sweetness, nice smokey character leads to a light bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Sampled from a growler on 2/13/07: Pours a very dark mahogany with a thin, spotty-lacing coating of light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel with some peaty notes and a touch of dark fruitiness. Body starts fairly sweet and full with earthy caramel maltiness and some light smoke and dark fruits. A very nice Scotch ale.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a deep brownish amber with an average off white creamy head. Aroma of dark fruits, sweet roasty malts, cherries, peat, caramel/toffee and hints of alcohol. Flavor of molasses, toffee, nuts, pretzels, some peat, light roastiness and some alcohol.

Poured a hazy dark brown-amber color wiht a small beige head. The aroma was on the large side. Sweet and malt foward. Nice fruity and peaty notes. the flavor was fruity and malty with notes of sugar and a peaty-grapeness. Medium to full bodied. Light bitterness and semi-dry.