Glazen Toren Canaster Winterscotch

Brewed by Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren
Style: Scotch Ale
Erpe-Mere, Belgium

Serve in Thistle

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75 cl. bottle @ home from Willems. Bottled on 09/10/2010 – quite odd for a bottle this old to be lying around in a store where the rest of the stock is quite young. The label says that it is good for at least two years after bottling. Once opened - G U S H E R – it just continuous gushing, even after I have poured & lost about half of it, the bottle, half filled with foam continuous gushing. Not a good sign but going by the taste this luckily appears to be more of a yeast issue or something rather than an infection, good. Very dark mahogany, intense red hue, obviously huge beige head that slowly collapses. Nose is very sweet BE Christmas spices, very sticky molasses, very overripe dark fruits, stainless steel, Grand Marnier cake, sticky candy sugar & something wrong maybe infected after all still and not overdone? Tastes like kvass, black bread soaked in a doppelbock, very overripe dark fruit, sticky candy sugar water, light burn, sweet malts, supermarket chocolatedrink, very sweet BE spices, some coca-cola & metals, brandy soaked cake. Body is a touch lighter & carb. is overt. Feels a bit like they made bit off a mess trying to go to a high ABV still quite interested – almost a bit like a DE & BE hybrid. Does certainly improve when it warms up.

750 ml bottle at home - pours cloudy amber with a quickly dissapearing light beige head + sizzling of the carbo (a bit too much of it in every facet of the beer). Aroma of caramel, bread and malt, pine and honey. Light body with a watery feeling, some alcohol burn but runs bland by the finish. Taste and aftertaste are very light malts. Average

December 2012. Bottle. Dark fruit, malt and nut aromas. Copper color with a white head. Flavors are dark fruit and a bit earthy. Hops on the finish. Very nice.

75 cl bottle @ KBF.
Originally rated on 20101126.
Pours copper color with a small head. Aroma of malts, caramel, ripe fruits and some yeast. Flavor of ripe fruits, caramel, malts and toffee.

Draft at the Belgian Cafe. Pours a murky reddish-copper with thin beige head. Nose of cherry, dark fruits, caramel malts, some spice, funk and vinegar. Medium mouthfeel with a tart finish.

Draft at Khyber Pass. Dark cloudy brown with an overflowing tan head. Dark caramel malts with a noteable Brett sour bite. Chocolate biscuits. Caramel apples. Charcoal smoke. Sour barrel conditioned notes. Cocoa powder and vinegar (though works out to be a better combination than that may sound.)

This was another unexpected pleasure today at vintage, sample prices are a little high but its a great beer palce, yesserrie. I see "canaster" as the discription of this and I am intrigued. Cloudy brown fromnthe tap. Slight tart taste but not punching. Goes down easy, pretty yummy. Easy to enjoy, I like it. Could have more of this. Has a wild side to it. Nice lacing, yes very interesting to look at it . Barely any co2. taste is good and better than expected. One of the best scotch ales I’ve ever tasted, goes to show you, go to the source for a feel of the styles real attributes. Seriously, you would never know this is 10%, comes across more like 4.8%, heheh.

On tap at Pizzeria Paradiso in Old Town. Dark mahogany with a thin tan head. Nose has dark fruits and a bit of caramel. Toffee flavor along with cherry and plum. A bit tart.

Pours a hazy golden brown on tap with thin lacy head that doesn’t really stick on the way down. Aroma of tart fruits, no real vanilla like I was expecting from the wood, but a nice belgian funkiness hidden underneath. Taste is tart and sour fruits, with a late smokiness that comes in at the end. Interesting, good.

Bouteille: Reddish chestnut-amber coloured, stable off-white foamy layer, sweet caramelly-toasty nose, some vinous traces detectable, a bit like a german Doppelbock; moderate sweet-sourish flavour, light to medium bodied, but a bit slim for a beer of 8.7%; some vinous traces, again, in the fruity-caramelly finish. a good brew, not too demanding...