Neustadt Springs Scottish Ale

Brewed by Neustadt Springs Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Neustadt, Canada

Serve in English pint, Thistle

473ml Can from the LCBO. pours clear orange with a thin white head. Aroma is malty, earthy and mildly hoppy. Creamy body. Somewhat sweet. Has some indistinguishable taste to it that I cannot identify. My friend hated this taste and I loved it. Overall pretty good. Will drink again. I drank this in 2010 & 2011 and found it to be pretty good. Noticing a lot of complaints with earlier batches?

can. light brown colour. Aroma of caramel malts, wood, nuts. Taste is nutty sweetness at the start with a bitter finish. Enjoyable.

500ml draught
4.5% ABV
Tried as "Neustadt Springs Double Fuggled Scottish Pale Ale" I tried this beer on March 2, 2011 on tap at "C’est What?" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The beer poured a translucent reddish gold with a thin white creamy head. The aroma was grain, caramel, and wet hops. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was very refreshing with a good malt profile and a nice hop bite.

473 ml can from LCBO. Pours a clear orange/gold with moderate-sized fluffy off-white head. Aroma is toffee, grains and grassy hops. Flavour is grainy/toffee-ish with grassy, slightly earthy bitterness. Solidly medium body. Decent.

Am I rating the same beer as the Lager? Cuz it sure as heck tastes like it. Had out of the same red can pictured. I would say other the dark reddish colour, this has almost no difference in taste compared with their lager. It is very weird. I would bet it had to do with the yeast, my guess it is the same strain. The beer tasted yeasty and smelt it too. There was a small undertone of malts but overall not bad.

Bought this can a while back at the LCBO and now thought it was the right time to open it up... and it exploded on me and foamed beer all over my desk and myself. OK, now back to normal. Pours a clear golden-amber colour with lots of bubbles stuck to the glass. The head is fluffy, huge, a bit off-white, has good retention and leaves dirty lacing all over (and beer on my floor). I get mostly hop from the smell, and lots of it. Then after pouring some more, I get some butterscotch, but the hop is really taking over, right after breathing a few seconds. Mmm... the butterscotch is in the taste as well, but not in a sweet over-powering manor. Mild nuts come out in the finish. The hop is there in the flavour, but letting some room to the rest, and just sitting back. Overall, really nice hoppy nose with decent taste to create a beautiful scotch ale that I would buy again. Just watch out for the pour and its crazy head.

Pours a clear amber/copper with fair head that descends to a film. Aromas of toffee, honey, grains. Taste reveals a surprising bitterness throughout the drink. Less toffee than on the nose. Malts are mostly grains/cereal. Aroma promises interesting, sweet malty beer, taste betrays it as a straightforward pale ale/bitter. And one with something a bit odd about it.

Supercan, shipped to me from Kingston. Orange-golden, light golden head. Aroma is sweet toffee with earthy nuances. Flavour is much the same. Not sure how this qualifies as "Scottish" in any way-- could be an amber, could be an english pale-- anyway, pretty simple but inoffensive.