Great Divide Claymore Scotch Ale

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Serve in Thistle

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Pours dark brown with hints of ruby and a smaller beige head that leaves some spotty lace. Nose involves some peated malt, licorice, dark fruit, hearty toasted bread, with deep caramel and molasses. Very sweet flavor with a fair bitterness. Full, round body, softer carb, creamy, with a long toasty bitterness on the end. No alcohol detected. A big, sweet, dessert-like beer. Nicely done.

Bottle; poured a brownish color. Sweet aroma, with fig, alcohol, caramel malt. Taste had more chocolately and creamy/smooth elements. Palate had a nice viscosity. Roasted malt, but not to smoky.

Bottle; poured a nice looking, very dark auburn color; almost ruby. Nice rich aroma of cocoa, roasted malt, peat, caramel with some sweetness. Flavor was also nice with the same components, but a more pronounced fruit presence. Nice mouthfeel. Alot of caramel and roasted/smoky elements. Quite a tasty brew

This is a beer where the aroma doesn’t match the taste in my opinion. A slight aroma of malt, bread and bourbon. The taste is smoky, malty and slightly sweet with a dry finish.

Medium sized biege head dark pour soft carbonation aromas rich malts some nut and caramel note of toffee rich earthyness the flavours sweet dark sugary taste toffee caramel nice and rich has a bite of hopsw crisp creamy touch the finish very enjoyable best tastes richness sweet malt crisp hops creamy touch nice ale

A dark brown ale with a thick collapsing lacing brown head. In aroma, sweet dark cherries with light chocolate, light vanilla, nice. In mouth, a nice sweet peaty chocomalt with light grassy hops, molasses, light licorice, lingering peatyness, very nice.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a cream colored head that slowly dissipates. The aroma is sweet and bready. Flavor is sweet and then bitter, with a nice complexity - caramel, cereal grains, nuts - leading to a mild slightly sweet finish. I like how the hops are in the background on this one. But I might also like a hint of smoke.

The aroma smells like basement aromas and toasted malts, and the appearance is a dark brown color with a medium off-white head. The taste is quite umami, mildly sour, and slightly sweet; the palate combines a thick texture, medium body, soft carbonation, and the finish is long and slightly smoky.

Nice flavor and body. It’s smoky, peaty, malty, caramel, with slight hops. I could drink more of these.

Bottle, pours clean hazelnut with creamy taupe head, very nice smoky, meaty, peaty aroma, sweet and smoky, a fair amount of cola in there, finishes just a bit tacky. I wish the flavor lived up to the aroma, wanted a bigger meatier profile