4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 26, 2010 Brown malty sweet moreish delicious. Aroma of raisins and dried fruits. Nicely balanced, very mild hop aftertaste. A bit of caramel too? A bit of whiskey in the alcohol taste, or just because I read it’s a Scotch Ale? :o) Good 8% beer, maybe like Golden Draak, but a bit weaker.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle 750ml. Great beer. Aromas of grain, burnt caramel, chocolate, and alcohol. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and long lasting. Palate is velvety, and medium-to-full bodied. Brown, with a long-lasting frothy head.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 ml purchased at Vintage Estate. This pours a pretty, deep amber with a dense but pillowy tan head. Not strong on the aroma front, mostly alcohol, maybe a little caramel malt. Flavor is mostly malt with a little raisin, but much lighter than it has any right to be as a Scotch, due to the lively carbonation. Pretty good, but not completely my style.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 ml bottle from SAQ, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.
App.: Murky, deep copper with a loose tan froth.
Aroma: Quite fruity with some nice bright fruits and lots of dark, dried fruitiness, slight smokiness, rich, sweet malts, some diacetyl, some yeast and booze, light esters.
Palate: Medium body, soft, smooth effervescence.
Flav.: Quite fruity with lots of tropical fruits, much more bright fruitiness with some darker dried fruits, lots of sweet, playful malts, caramel and toffee, some lighter yeast notes, very little alcohol, an orgy of malt goodness; somewhat seet with little bitterness, a touch of booze and a light, malty finish.
Occchhh, is a bonny beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
scotch ale dark colour with white-brown head aroma is fruity with chocolate and alcohol notes
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33cl bottle
Pours a hazy brown to darkred beer with a rocky beige head that leaves good lacing.
Aroma is sweet malty with, caramel, fruit, some spices and some slight hops. Taste is full of sweet malt, caramel, fruits and some slight hops in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is very smooth and soft
A enjoyable Scotch ale.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours copper with a large beige head. Aroma is caramel, fruity, raisin and plum. Flavour is sweet caramel, fruitu, raisin, plum and alcohol
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: APR 27, 2010 750ml bottle. Pours a mahogany colour and a small off-white head. Pretty lasting foam. Aroma is sweet and complex: yeast (of course), some fruits, grain and a bit spices too. Taste is sweet too, a bit fruity. The finish is spicy and a bit alcoholic. Quite dry in the end. Lively carbonation. Very, very good
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