Heather Ales Ebulum

Bottle: Very nice dark pour with a light brown head that very quickly disappeared. Can taste dark choclate in the brew a very nice mixture nothing overpowering.

Pours black with a minor head. mildly sour aroma. Flavor is sour with a moderate mouth feel. Somewhat minty in a weird way. Definitely interesting and not all that bad.

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a pitch black with a small tan head and a delicious aroma of fresh picked berries, coffee, maple syrup and roastiness. The flavor isn’t that good though, it starts like a berry juice, fresh and slightly sweet and then gets more like a stout, roasty and dark coffe-like. A weird combination and not something I would buy again anytime soon. Though the smell is brilliant.

Appearance: Pours a black body with brown edges and a bubbly, beige head. Smell: Aroma of roasted barley and elderberries (which come across as a smokey wild grape). Notes of chocolate as well as molasses. Taste: Chocolatey, roasted barley flavor with a hint of smoke and, of course, a firm elderberry fruit taste and sweetness - like a blackberry-grape mix. Dash of spice. Light sourness to the roasty finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Interesting and certainly fine enough for a single bottle, but not something I’d want to make a habit of.

Pours a transparent dark mahogany with ruby hues and a thin ring of spotty off-white head. Aroma of dark fruits and some mild peat and caramel malt. Starts well-carbonated and fairly full with some lightly smoky and fruity tartness before a drier earthy finish. An interesting and fairly complex brew.

Pours reddish black with average tan head. Aroma of dark fruit and molasses. Flavor to match, but adds a bit of caramel malt and seems to fall short. No "wow" factor.

Sampled at 2007 Brewnosers’ Christmas Gathering. Dark brown with a fizzy tan head. Aroma of blackstrap molasses, acetone, light chocolate and fruit. Acetone and blackstrap molasses featured highly in the flavour as well, with the acetone taking too much away from what otherwise would appear to be an interesting beer underneath. Light bodied and dry.

330 ml bottle from a historic ales of scotland giftpack. pours dark brown with red edges and an average tan head. aromas of dark fruits, malts, sweet caramelish vanilla. complex flavours that show potential but to thin to be great. a good beer and by far the best of the giftpack.