McGuires Peated Scotch Ale

Brewed by McGuires Irish Pub & Brewery
Style: Scotch Ale
Pensacola, Florida USA

Serve in Thistle

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Once again Tom goes in the back to treat us to the remainder of last season’s peated Scotch ale. Possibly the best brew of the day. Nose was nice....single malt scotch-like, tasty. Great mouthfeel.....smooth....this brew is begging for a cigar to go with it. Nice malt backbone....great flavor. Enjoyed this to the last drop.

On tap at the 2008 edition of the Florida Brewer’s Guild Beer Fest. Pours hazy brown with orange hues holding up a lasting ring of white foam along with faint spotty lacing. The aroma has solid peatiness along with earthiness and light roasty malts. Nice scotch ale mixture. I also get a mild background of sweet maltiness running along the earthy and peaty aromas. The taste is much like the aroma with delicious peaty malts with some earthiness. At a lower level I taste faint date like prune like fruity esters. I also get a faint drying malt astringency going along with just as faint vague hop tartness or bitterness that provides a pleasing added complexity to the experience. The peat really lingers well into the after taste along with faint date and prune dark fruitiness.