Highland Tasgall Ale

Brewed by Highland Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Asheville, North Carolina USA

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.

Pours a very dark brown with ruby highlights and fair tan head with decent sticky lacing. Toffee, peaty moss, chocolate. Decent example of the style, but this is not the best highland i’ve come across.

cola colored pour with a gorgeous tan head, aroma and flavor were sweet caramel , a little bit of smoke in there, and a very crisp finish, not syrupy at all. just a hint of grass in the back end of the flavor. Highly enjoyable.

Last HWOH tasting. Pours a dark ruby brown with a moderate lasting beige head. Aroma is sweet, caramel, toffee, fruity esters, some raisin and peach notes along with darker toasted malts, nuts, hitns of chocolate and some smoke/peat/phenol. Sweet toffee and molasses flavor with hints of smoke, wood, nuts, almond and roasted charred malts. Smooth and pretty good overall.

Dark dark brown, ruby hints with a finger of bubbly tan head. Big peaty chocolate aroma, light caramel and alcohol. Taste is smoke, caramel, chocolate, very smooth.

Pours a dark brown almost cola colored body with a small tan head that recedes quickly. The aroma is really nice with chocolate, smoked peat malt, toasted caramel and nougat all coming through. The flavor follows suit with the chocolate and toasted caramel up front with the smoked peat and nougat adding depth. Some piney hops lend bitterness in the background and really help blend everything together. Medium almost full bodied and a smooth and silky mouthfeel which lends to great drinkability. This is a tasty scotch ale and one I look forward to drinking again. Really nice job on this one.

Bomber. Pours a deep & dark amber color with a nice off-white head. Aroma is sweet - lots of roasted malts, caramel, sugar and a slight hint of smoke. The tasty roasted malts also dominate the flavor, with some of the caramel coming through, some choclate and a little bit of the smokiness poking through. This was a really nice drink.

Dark, dark copper body with light coming through only around the edges. The head is small, off-white and dissipates to a ring fairly quickly leaving little lacing. The aroma is donminated by sweet roasted malts, caramel and toffee. There is also a generous citrus hop kick that I wasn’t expecting. The taste has the aforementioned hop kick up front though it is less pronounced than in the aroma. Then the sweet malts kick in with caramel, toffee and a little booze. The finish is sticky sweet but with what tasted like a bit of smoke. The mouthfeel is sticky but very smooth with little carbonation, maybe just a tad too thin to be world class. This is a very good scotch ale and extremely drinkable. One of the best offerings from Highland.