3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at the Wooly. Pours slightly hazy, coppery-amber in colour, very thin head. Aroma and taste are caramel malt, a little hint of smoke. Really good!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
[3459-20101030] Cask. Alcoholic grains aroma is a little sweet. Slightly hazy, dark amber body with a quick foamy off-white head. Grainy sweet malt flavour has a long aftertaste of sweet toasted grains. Medium body. Drinkable.
(Cask Days @ Volo, Toronto, ON)
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tap at Volo (cask). Great beer. Aromas of caramel, grain, and leaves. Taste is sweet, with good length. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Red, with a thin head.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Volo Cask Days 2010
Aroma slight hop note with creamy and bitter hints followed. Unfortunately quiet creamy instead of malty.
Appearance amber with light off white top
Flavor and Palate : medium bodied with noticeable bitter front. Mid paired with fruity hints , carbonation was low. Felt quiet generic , miles away from true Scotch Ale.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask for Cask Days at Volo in Toronto. Served in an English pint glass. Pours clear reddish amber with a rocky, tan head. The head remains but does not lace. The nose has aromas of whisky, caramel, brown sugar, fruit, licorice and a hint of earth. The flavour is moderately sweet up front, but becomes more so, with a nice herbal hop accent. The finish is longish and fairly sweet. It is medium in body with a smooth, creamy texture and flat carbonation. Overall, a decent malty Scotch ale with a hint of licorice. It works fairly well. 2010-10-29
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
A light edgy amount, with slight colour, a little at end of cask. A little head. Creamy mouthfeel, bittersweet peaty not too bad. Drinkable.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap at the Kiwi . Poured a slightly hazy light amber-orange with a 1 finger white cap that reduced to a good lace that stayed
Medium carbonation. Best nose of all the F&M brews....aromas of toast, caramel malts and a thin whisp of sage or pine.
Starts bolder up front than other brews from this brewer, with a nice oily mouth feel and medium body where the toasty-caramel malt sits in almost perfect balance with the musty-sage hopping. Finish is clean with a mellow hop aftertaste.
The outstanding character of this brew for me was its uncanny, almost perfect balance. Strangely, one of the best balanced ales I ever tasted... A nice session brew...much like a light scotch ale....I’ll buy more
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Victory Cafe, Toronto. This beer was brown with very little head or carbonation. I picked up a brown sugary aroma with some honey. The flavour had some grassy hop character and pine, water as well as caramel malt, brown sugar; there was a bit of oak in the short, slightly bitter finish.
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