Philadelphia Kilty Pleasure

Brewed by Philadelphia Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Thistle

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Bottle. Sounds like some folks have had some sketchy versions of this beer but this bottle poured fine, dark brown, decent tan, dissipating head. The sweetness for me was not at all overwhelming, making this a scotch ale I can enjoy as opposed to just being too sweet. Solid offering.

lit cola color and a fair head, some sliht ops fragrance, sweet fruity and smoky taste wit a distinct bitter finis. Not your every day scottis ale

Bottle… Pours a murky dark brown with a zillion white floaties and a mid-size, creamy, taupe head that never dissipates. The aroma is a merging of brown caramelized sugar, toffee, fruitcake and a sprinkling of tawny port. Medium-bodied and mildly creamy with busy carbonation. The caramelized malts are balanced-out by stale, minerally hops. A delicate port wine ester and a whisper of lactic acid are both also present in the flavor. Minerally, very lightly bitter finish. Bottle courtesy of Beerman6686!

aroam, deep malts, carmel, toffee, earty flowery esters color, medium amber full bodied, very warm looking nice head retetion taste, warm raich malts touch the tongue, slight sweet flowery esters, kinda adds a slight Vanilla flavor, carmel and toffee notes and a touch of smoke in the backend overall, I love it, great Scotch ale!,

On tap at the Harris grill. Opaque brown. Quite sweet on the aroma, alarming to say the least. First taste is also sweet and alarming. A little cloying and now the aroma is too. Has a slight raosty background in there that makes it acdceptable at times. Becomes a little more difficult as the session continues. Yes, finish is a little crude for a lager lover, fer sure.

From notes: Poured nut brown with a slight reddish tinge and a 2-finger tan head. Aroma was mildly of hops, with a peppery note, maybe from the heather. Slightly thick, with a mild depth. Flavor starts with a candied fruit sweetness that gives way to a lingering earthiness in the finish. As it warms, noted some vanilla and a slight peppery note.

From a bottle poured a brown color with a small amount of head. Toasted malty flavor with a quick finish.

Bottle: pours dark brown with a thin tan head, aroma is malty with a touch of vanilla, taste is malty, chocolate, a little vanilla. A slight warming in the finish. Not bad.

22 oz bottle-thanks jtclockwork for sharing-pours a tan head and bark copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-molasses. Taste is sweet medium malt-molasses, some spice hops.

THOUGHTS: The alcohol was a little hot for being only 8% ABV. Almost cloying, but held on just enough to be a non-offending malt bomb. Light on smoke, which I feel is a good thing in a Scotch Ale, but a little heavy on the vanilla. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark, reddish brown or brownish red with an average, tan head that mostly diminished in an extremely slow manner. The aroma had moderate to heavy; cookie, cake, roasted and nutty malts, molasses and caramel; hints of chocolate; brown sugar; and maple syrup. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and ever so slightly sour; while the finish was moderate to rather sweet and light to moderately bitter with an average duration. There was apple, cherry, dark fruit, caramel malt, toffee, molasses, maple syrup, vanilla, a little herbal hops and I guess heather because not all of the bitterness seemed to come from hops; a little cola, hints of chocolate, alcohol, cake and cookies. The medium body was a little syrupy, but also oily with fizzy carbonation and a slightly alcoholic finish.