3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nose is zesty and toasty (obviously with some pine). Pours cloudy amber with a head that forms into yeasty clumps. Flavour is pretty good for a herbal, with an upfront grassiness that develops into citrus, sweet berry, and a medium bitter long finish. There is a little bit of sourness underpinning, and generally speaking it is complex, balanced and well-realised.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: DEC 19, 2006 330 ml bottle - pours somewhere between orange and brown with virtually no head save for a few bubbles. Aroma of pine, sweet malty goodness, and some peat, as well as a weird fake fruitiness, almost like strawberry gum. Flavour the same as above, though more floral at the front of the palate, and bitter near the middle, and damn if that isn’t a raspberry coulis in the finish, i don’t know what is....I hope this beer does not give me twins, or any children for that matter. Damn myths!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
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.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
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.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
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.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
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.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
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
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
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.
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