Isle of Skye Cuillin Beast

Bottle. Pours a reddish amber with an off-white head. Aroma is malty with strong notes of wood and also reminds me a bit of scotch. It seems as if you can smell some of the alcohol. Flavor starts malty but a sour citrus taste develops and the dissipates at the end leaving a malty aftertaste. This is definitely different, but I am okay with it, especially as I usually do not enjoy Scotch Ales.

Pours a copper color with a small white head. It has a funky cherry aroma with a hint of licorice. The flavor is very tart with berries, cherries, chocolate, and licorice. It does taste like its trying to be a sour. Kind of confusing, but interesting. A little harsh, but tasty.

Pours hazy copper with off white head. The aroma has some punch with it emitting light colored fruit notes, sweet – tart candy, light earthiness and sour yeasty notes. The taste is bright and punchy too with tart candy and modest sourness to go along with a spectrum of berry notes going from sweet to tart. Is this a Scotch Ale meets a Sour? It comes across as interesting but not tasting all that great.

Bottle, courtesy ibrew2or3. Clear copper pour, some whitish haze, slight lacing. Sweet fruits in the nose, Belgiany sugar, some brown sugar as well. Tart flavors, some dry brown sugar, wheat and slight chocolate. Thin-bodied and very unique.

courtesy of ibrew2or3. Pours orange, white head. Aroma and taste, high carbonation, floral hops, malty,c aramel. Roasted malts cover the palate, and the beer has an unusual tartness to it, possibly of the herbal flavor. Mixed with some sweetness with an honey like palate.

Sampled as a bonus at the pre-Cinco de Mayo tasting at Blacklick Wine and Spirits on 5.1.09. Bottle labeled Wee Beast. Amber pour with a big and creamy beige head. Very fruity aroma of strawberry and blackberry with malt, some sourness and what seems to be tobacco. Slight vanilla flavor up front followed by the berries, a bit of nuts, some alcohol and tobacco. A bit of roasty character seeps in as it warms. Very odd, but tastes wonderful after all those boring Mexican beers.

Bottle (in NZ). Pours a dark copper with a large pillowy head. A familiar Scotch Ale aroma with plenty of woody notes in the malty nose. But there is an unusual sourness (which I see has been remarked on before). Very strong whiskey-like flavour - so much so I have to remind myself that I’m drinking beer. Scotch Ale is always a difficult style to appreciate, but I like the unusualness of this.

(Sample Date: 12/20/2008 Source:Once Apon a Vine - Northside) 1/2L bottle 7% ABV Wine like almost sour aroma with underlying maltyness and woody notes. Cloudy golden brown with small off-white head. Malty with slightly sour grainy flavor and maybe some woody notes. Not really sure the sourness was intended to be here, its not offensive at all and along with the woodiness it almost works.