Schlafly 80 Schilling

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

Pint at the Tap Room. This pours clear and coppery. A one plus finger off white head. Thevnose is fruit from the hops, grain, and soggy malt. I taste the fruit first. The hops are subdued but nice. Malt is multi layered and includes a tiny dash of cocoa. Cinnamon is noted and is also light. Alcohol seems ablittle higher than listed. This is tasty, subtle, and nice. Very enjoyable.

draft... medium murky amber... light nose, taste is strong and peaty, too much smoke, not very good

Tasted 9/17/2011 at the Hop in the City Festival in a clean half-pint taster glass. Two versions on tap: standard keg and cask-conditioned. Clean, malty, moderate residual sweetness. Fairly attractive and tasty amber ale, but not completely true-to-style. A bit too watery, too much residual sweetness, and zero Scotch peat smoke aroma/taste. To Schlafly’s credit, peat/smoky characteristics are optional and tough to nail outside of Scotland. Surprisingly full-bodied and complex for 4.15% ABV. I could easily drink a couple of these over dinner. With regards to the cask-conditioned version: Compared to the standard batch, this one demonstrated a more complex fermentation, hence more yeast aroma, less translucent body, smoother carbonation, and great lacing. I’m convinced this one climbed higher than the stated 4.15% ABV. Recommended.

Tasted 6/23/11. Pint from the Tap Room. Pours filtered with a bronze hue. Off white head. Malty caramel aromas. Medium bodied with a good malt roast. Faint hops. Solid effervescence. Crisp but smooth. A nicely rounded palate leaning towards the sweet and tangy. Good malt bill and fresh and tasty!

Sample at Hopfest 2011. Pours a burnt orange color. Aroma of peat, grain. Flavor is peat, molasses. Very watery. Not that impressed.

Enjoyed on tap at Schlafly Tap Room in St Louis, MO as part of a sampler. Appearance a slightly dark amber with a thin white head. Aroma I’m not really getting anything, if anything a faint English yeast. Taste is explosive with the English yeast, very much prevalent and mixes well with a rich caramel/bready malt backing. Mostly crisp, just has a really nice flavor to it and I can definitely see myself drinking many in a row.

Draft sample at Hop in the City 2010. Pours a clear copper color with a small eggshell white head. Aroma is mostly malts- caramel, bread, and toast- with some citrus and leafy hops. Flavor of citrus and earth complement the slate of malts. Light-bodied, with mild carbonation and a malty mouthfeel, albeit a light and almost watery one. Because of that super-light body, none of the notes are particularly strong here. Definitely sessionable, and very drinkable.

on tap-pours a rich off white head and gold color. Aroma is medium malt-peat. Taste is sweet medium malt-peat, some earthy hops.