Highland Tasgall Ale

22 ounce bottle thanks to Brent. Pours a deep mahogany color with a medium beige head. The aroma is great; powerful fruity malts waft out, caramel and roasted malts. The flavor is also nice; a dominant fruity malt, rich and powerful, light dryer flavors, grains and light smoke or meatiness. A really nice example of the style. Highland gets no hype, but man I love their beer. This was a really nice one.

Bottle from Kingdom Liquors. Poured dark hazy brown color with an average frothy brown head that mostly diminished with fair lacing. Moderate to heavy earthy, alcohol and toasted malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy toasted complex sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish and small alcohol burn of moderate duration. Good complex brew.

Pours brown with ruby hints. Nose was sweet malts, cocoa, coffee, earthy hops, some smoke. Flavor was big sweet roasted malts, some smoke, sweet fruits, dark fruits, berries, toffee, earth. Very nice.

Bomber. Pours a hazy brown with a thin tan head. Nose of rich malt, some chocolate a touch of spicy earthy hops. Flavor is rich caramel, a touch of roast, some brown sugar, a little fruit, some slight earthy hop bitterness. Hints of booze. Lush, drinkable. Very solid.

bottle poured a cola color with a thin off white head. aroma has a nice smoked peat, malts, toffee, and bakers chocolate. nice texture to the mouth feel leads to flavors similar to the nose with some burnt caramel and hops coming through. a bit of a wild card beer but this one was enjoyed.

Lightly smokey dark caramel aroma. Flavor does have a solid dollop of hops, but the rich maltiness rules the show. Quite nice, but not totally outstanding.

22 oz bomber. Pours dark amber-orange, little haziness, off-white head. Rich caramel tones, and boy do you smell the earthiness of the peat. Nice rich full-body, deep sweetness, touch of bitter and then a dry earthy dirt-like finish (which is exactly what I wanted. Great Scotch ale and I’d love to get my hands on another bottle of this.

Sampled at WBF in Durham - this was a nice change from all of the stouts and porters I tried throughout the day. Poured an opaque brown color with a tan head. I could smell malts, chocolate along with some hops. Very rich malty well balanced taste with an earthy finish. This beer had a combination of things going on from bitterness, sweetness and earthiness - very interesting and tasty ale.