(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a small beige head. Aroma of smoked sausage, pizza sauce, grilled bell peppers (not eating pizza with this…), caramel, and toffee. Flavor of cherry, caramel, wood, and dark fruit with a dry finish.

The beer fresh from the tap appears a deep brown to almost black, the head a creamy light tan that piles high on the body, solid sheet of lace to cover the glass. Nose has a sweet malt aroma up front; hints of smoke and toasted grain, nice hop flowery tone at the back. Start has a pleasing malt profile; sweet with a definite hop spiciness at the back, top is moderate to almost full. Finish has a perfect acidity, the hops evident, with the smokey malt sticking to the palate like glue, dry aftertaste, a nice representative to the style, as I said in a recent review Scottish Ales of any type getting hard to find.

Tap @ Papago. Fruity nose along with some sweet malt for aroma. Dark body with decent head. Fruit is dominate flavor but has a good malted sweeter for w well balaance beer. Sticky fruit lingers on the palate a good brew.

tap @ the pub...thought i’d be the first to get this in, but...pours a dark mahogany with a fluffy off white head. aromas of fresh berries, wood and dark caramel malt. flavor is fruity again with wood, earth and toffee. finishes with a nice bitter dryness from the hops. medium to full bodied and quite creamy. alcohol creeps up as it starts to warm.not overly sweet as many of these tend to be.