Green Flash / Pizza Port Carlsbad / Stone Highway 78 Scotch Ale

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Scotch Ale
Escondido, California USA

Serve in Thistle

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Cloudy brown body and thin bubbly head. Oak barrel in the aroma and a big floral. Tastes a little flat, but this could be due to cellaring this too long. Very malty flavor.

12 ounce bottle. Poured cloudy without head. Malty, leathery, raisins, fruity alcohol, toffee, caramel. A nice Scottish ale with just a touch of hot alcohol.

In short: Scented soft candies with fruit juice in a bottle. Acceptable.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed 6 months after purchase, but almost one year after bottling if only one batch of this beer was made
The look: Cloudy burgundy body topped by a small beige head
In long: Nose shows a foundation of sweet malts but also a surprisingly strong flowery/perfumy component. Taste has soft creamy toffee, soft aromatic candies (similar to jelly beans), fresh juicy fruits, soft liquorice candy. The fruitiness here was all over the place and I noted bananas (!!!), darker fruits and even kiwis. For a scotch ale the sweetness sensation was rather low. I think this is a well made beer, but it is just not my kind of beer. Named after a state highway that I assume connects these three California breweries, and thanks to the USA Interstate Highways it is now possible to travel all around the country without seeing anything.

Smells like olives. Pours nice dark - meaty looking. A little watery mouth feel. Oaky, scotch flavor....buttery.....maybe butter-scotch? A terrific, bold beer.

12 oz bottle from Bottle Barn. Nose is toffee and slightly singed caramel and sweetness. Clear reddish copper with a medium beige head. Flavor is toffee, roastiness, and a little background bitter.

Pours a brownish orange color. Malty and delicious. Some caramel and brown sugar. Has some bitterness in the taste! Mmm

Deep red color and has thin whitish head. The smell is deep caramel, sweet, burnt sugars, malts, and raisin. The taste is sweet, caramel, layers of flavors, deep, chocolate, and good.

Dark amber with offwhite head. Earty nuttiness with honey and caramel on the nose. Flavor is malt, honey, light fruit, nuts, slightly hoppy and with big earthiness.

Gedronken in Brussel bij moeder Lambic, kleur is bruin, stout, zoet, smaak is een beetje saai tegenover de andere (van stone) caramel smaak.

Pours brown with an off-white head. Smells a bit of honey. Sweet with some bitterness. Some caramel aromas with hints of alcohol. Medium to full bodied. Soft carbonation. Dry and malty finish.