Meteor Mortimer

Brewed by Meteor
Style: Smoked
Hochfelden, France

Had this on tap at a cafe in Paris. Amber-brown with moderate beige head, sweet malty aroma with a hint of whisky on the nose, taste is sweet and nutty with some subtle hints of whiskey, I don’t really get the smoke or the peat. Smooth palate and easy to drink with dark fruit and a little toffee.

Served best when very cold. Sweet ale aroma with a slight whisky tinge. The flavour of the beer has a slight similarity to a spirit, with a slight bitter edge. For 8% the beer is not too strong in taste,in fact it is better than you would expect.

Sweet fruity and caramel aroma. Dark amber color, off-white head, good lace. Sweet, light bitter, caramel, malty, hint of smoke and whisky, medium body.

From a 1 pint 9.4 oz clear glass bottle that looks like your classic scotch whiskey bottle, a blurb on the back label, no freshness date. Poured a cloudy fresh, raw apple cider copper with a foamy off-white head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. Aromas of sweet caramel malts mixed with a buttery toffee, a light apple fruitiness, a subtle peat and a light whiskey-like alcohol. Pleasant Scottish Ale taste, caramel and toffee with a nice lingering butteriness, a hint of nutty grain, the alcohol has a light peat whiskey flavor, lightly warming in the palate, a subtle pineapple yeasty fruitiness, light and soft on the hop bitterness, and a malty, yeasty with a touch of peat finish. A nice Scottish Ale from a historic region of France, smooth, easy drinkability, at an affordable price, well worth trying. For anyone who cares, the name is Mortimer, it’s in a Scotch bottle and if your label is different from the one pictured, please take a close look at the Scotchman picture at the left, then look at the color and body of the brew before you, the smell and taste, I think you will realize this is a Scottish Ale.

This is sort of an odd beer - the clear bottle doesn’t bother me like it bothers others. I think it’s misclassed as a ’smoked’ beer - a rauchbier it’s not! It’s a tad like a scottish malt ale, quite decent. Slight head. If whiskey were a beer, it might be a bit like Mortimer.

It has a nice colour, but no head to speak of. This smells of whisky and grain. This is quite a smooth beer. Not much aftertaste, though.

not as strong tasting as I thought it would be. still, it’s a nice whisky-ish beer, sweet, with an almost syrupy texture.

[At Fete de la Biere 2004, Lausanne] A light brown beer with no head. The aroma is faint - what is there is of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of honey and malt.