 thornecb (1751), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 16, 2006 Pours bright amber into a shaker. Off-white medium head with very good retention. Alchohol and spruce aromas. Smooth with sweet honey and caramel. Lasting alcohol sting.
KingpinIPA (842), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 15, 2006 Cloudy amber with partials floating around. Smell of grass, pine, hops, malt, wood, sugar, syrup, citrus and herbs/spices. It’s like walking into a forest for a brief second and also it smells like a pine air freshener that is hanging from a taxi cab mirror. Taste of pine oil, malt, hops, sugar, grass, citrus, hints of chocolate and licorice. Bitterness and a little alcohol taste at the end. Very different beer.
shintriad (698), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 8, 2006 Very interesting. Bewitching reddish-orange colour with a thin, almost headless body. The scent of malt and wet paper is betrayed by the honeyish sweetness and nuttiness. I love that they’re trying something different, but it doesn’t truly assert itself. Perhaps my ’buds are ruined by NW IPAs, but I don’t quite taste the pine. Still, the smooth texture and the eventually balancing alcohol bite make it better than average.
xav33 (313), Midland, MI, Michigan, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 3/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 7, 2006 Heather Ale Alba Scots Pine Ale
12 oz bottle
Medium pour in an English Pint
Best before 02/08, prickled 11/06
Poured a clear orange red with a large slightly off white foamy head with a tiny ring of lacing.
Smelt of moderate spruce and sweet fruit, similar to oranges, and cake.
Taste was upfront moderate bittersweet pinetree and sweet pineapple and oranges followed by a strong bitter spruce taste with light sweetness on an average finish. Palate was medium bodied, creamy, oily to slightly dry, with light astringency.
Overall, it’s like drinking watered down sweet spruce sap with a little malt kick. Genius. Its like a refreshing winter walk through a coniferous evergreen tree forest.
Sammy (3976), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 5, 2006 Spruce beer,plain and simple. A poor man’s quick way to drunkeness, served to soldiers in Canada couped up in forts, to get their vitamins and stay happy. Some forest over-the-hedge aroma, well carbonated, lagerish medium mouthfeel body with spruce aftertaste
jbrus (4842), Delft, Netherlands
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 25, 2006 Bottled. Sweet aroma, very fruity, orange, apple, hint of glue. Amber color, beige cream head, good lace. Sweet, bitter, pine, very fruity, pear, apple, laurel, herbal and especially in the finish like sucking on a twig of pruce. Little sticky. Quite complex and constantly changing flavors. This makes it had to grasp.
Rballs01 (264), Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 22, 2006 Delicious. This was a very unique beer. Poured a dark orange brown. On the nose there was spruce,pine and sweet dried fruits present. It tasted delicious! Very different than anyother beer i’ve had. Almost candylike but not to sweet. If you can find a bottle of this you must try it.
bierkoning (6018), La Tropica, Netherlands
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 2/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 21, 2006 Brown sugar, plums and a slight herbalness in the aroma. Sweet sugary flavor with rubber and something woody. Slightly herbal, mixed with some tropical fruit. Not really my taste, but not without quality.
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