Neustadt Springs Scottish Ale

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

(Bottle) Thanks to Joey_Capps for making this beer available to me. Pours a frothy, yellow head and a thin, light copper body. Medium carbonation activity. Nose of Caramel, orange, earthy undertones. Roasted malt flavour with orange, watered whiskey, and cask. Whiskey finish. It would be great if Neustadt upped the ABV to 6.5-7.0% - interesting things would happen. Again, many thanks to Joe!

Cask at C’est What. Pours a clear dark copper with a small diminishing creamy off-white head. Mild aroma of caramel malt and light herbal hops -- overly mild but pleasant enough. Slightly watery flavour of grain, and the hops appear mostly in the finish, not so much in the flavour. Light to average bodied. Decent enough, it doesn’t come across as really "Double" anything but it’s alright.
Earlier Rating: 4/14/2006 Total Score: 2.4
Bottle at The Rhino. Pours a clear sparkling gold with an average size diminishing white head. Extremely mild aroma of malt and...I don’t know...I can barely smell anything. Flavour of malt and fruit is decent but quite watery. Thin bodied. There’s nothing bad about this beer but it loses points for being so damn mild and bland.

Sweet caramel aroma, dark amber, medium beige head. Caramel, roasted malt flavour, some bitterness. Sweet, but not overly, watery. Fair.

I love this style, so it kills me to diss one of these beers, but this is thin, metallic, watery, and the hops are of a variety that sucks ass. I don’t know the technical name for this hop, but it shouldn’t be used in anything other than beers from Steelback. "Scottish Ale", my ass. This is too bitter and not malty enough for the style.

Canette de 473 ml achetée chez LCBO (Ottawa, ONT). Arôme: Odeur de caramel fruité avce une pointe d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est blonde orangée avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de caramel avec une pointe d’houblons et de céréales. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement minérale. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de céréales en arrière goût. (Rating #2176)

Cask and regular draught. Billed at Double Fuggled @ Cest What when from cask. Clear, coppery. Little head. Nose is toffee, crystal, caramel malt and fuggles with hint of strawberry. Low to no carbonation. Diacetyl is present in non-cask version. Ends in gentle whisper of balanced fuggle, is watery but quaffable.

[1378-20080523] Tap. Bit of boozy yeast in the aroma. Clear, amber brown body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head. Freshly toasted dark malt flavour. Medium body is smooth. Really interesting brew, repeatable.
(@ C’est What; Toronto, ON; Labelled "Double Fuggled")

Re-rate from the new single cans from the LCBO. Pours a deep orange with very little head and very little anything - looks still and flat - I’m on the fence on downgrading appearance from 3 to 2. Pretty intense fruitiness from aroma with some sweetness lurking in the background - enough to bump aroma from 5 to 6. Taste - not bad - lots of on style malty sweetness and fruitiness and some nice earthy and fruity hops come through. The whole package is let down by a watery body - and the taste itself, while it has plenty of good things going for it - tastes like it has been cut with water. Still, quite drinkable and very fresh tasting. My rating is bumped up from the original 5/3/6/3/10 as it is a decent offering. On tap, Rebel Chop House, Bloor West Village. Nice orange colour, slightly fruity aroma. Pleasing, malty taste typical of the style, but a little thin. Overall a decent beer, but it didn’t leave too much of an impression.