Great Lakes Highlander Scottish Ale

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Scottish Ale
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Smooth drinking Scottish ale. Deep color and mild hops. Very refreshing ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

This poured a lighter brown color with an off white head. Aroma was lightly skunky, stale grassy hops and light roasted malts. FLavor was stale bready and moldy german hops. Bleh.

Tap. Clear gold amber pour. Minimal head. Malty nose, taste of malt and caramel. Decent Scottish ale, but just not my style.

72oz growler fill from brewpub ($34!!). aroma is lightly smoked well toasted malt. quite savory. khaki pour with fine head that lingers a spell but little carb. flavor is a touch flat and metallic. little of the toast from the nose visable in the flavor though when it reveals its welcome. lightly charred sawdust character, just a kiss of smoke.

On tap, poured a clear deep copper with a thin white head. Muted caramel aromas, very restrained. Malty, yet kind of bland flavor. was expecting much more malt, caramel, toffee flavor, but it just wasn’t there. Medium mouthfeel. A sessionable ale that was pretty forgetable.

UPDATED: JAN 15, 2010 On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear amber with a medium beige head. Faint malty and caramel nose. Flavor is also light caramel malt without much else. Could use a bit more complexity and strength.

Had a pint of this on tap at the brewpub before the Nine Inch Nails concert Sunday night. Nose of brown sugar, malty cereal, and a hint of resin. Pours a clear orange copper. The nice tan creamy head is mostly diminishing with thin lace. The brew tastes malty and sweet with hints of spice and coffee. The medium body is creamy, soft and feels slightly sticky at the finish. The only disappointment for me at the brewpub. I expect more from an example of this style.

This is a great beer, from the greatest brewery ever. The beer has a very nice brown with reddish tint color. The head stayed well on the beer but did fade slowly. The body is thin but feels smooth on the palate. The aroma is full of malt, ans sweetness. The flavor is full of malt, light hops, and some sweet and spice. This is the closest thing to the GLBC Christmas Ale, which is the best beer I have ever had.

Draft - Great Lakes. Had a unique brown color. Had a nice malty flavor, but was just a little too thin. Smokey malt and sweet flavor. Good--Not great.

On tap at brewery: reddish brown in color, with small thin head, and pretty cloudy. Aroma is malty, maybe a bit yeasty. Flavor is malty and pretty sweet, with a bit of caramel. Too sweet overall. Not bad, but nothing especially great.