Heather Ales Alba

Bottle (from BItter Virtue, BB Feb 08). Malty caramel and blackcurrant prominent on the nose with undertone of herbal spicy aromas. Almost medicinal herbal flavour becomes more pronounced in the mouth with a moderate bittereness helping to balance the sweet mouthfilling malts. Full and sweet whilst remaining drinkable. Unusual and pretty good.

Bottle. Pours a hazy red with no head. Aroma is mild with strong notes of fruit and some caramel. Flavour is sweet with some berries (raspberries?) and a pine like feel - perhaps juniper berries.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy red/brown colour with a faor beige head. The aroma is sweet, malty and yeasty, fruity. Flavour is a bit sweet, nice maltiness, hoppy, some spices, fruity with some pine. An interesting tasty strong ale. "Alba" is Gaelic for "Scotland".

[Tasted with Svogergylp at Røsnæs.] "Strange" beer in the way that it’s with pine, but in this way I find it unbalanced, because the pines are overall in the beer.

Red and brown in colour, weak head. Fruity and strong alcohol in scent. Sweet and crisp in taste. Can’t really identify what I’m tasting.. it’s good though!

12 oz Bottle-poured a dark copper color w/a small off white head. Had a sweet, fruity, floral arona. Strong up front roasted barley malt flavor, did have a touch of a pine/christmas tree tint to it. Sweet bubblegum flavor w/a touch of spice. This was a little different, but it was very enjoyable-a true "Scotch Pine". Moderate sweet minty finish.

Bottled - Pours a fairly dark copper color with a small head.. LOTS of fruitiness on the nose.. almost like piney bubblegum...Pine is def. in the taste.. but lots of sweet dark fruits.. very different beer..

Again, unfortunately from memory. Medium palate, light fruit and bitterness, but very little pine flavor.Scots make some super easy drinking ale either way.Enjoyable, but nothing special.