Smuttynose Scotch Style Ale

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Hazy dark brown body with a smallish head. Aroma was chocolate, sugar, more hops than other Scotch ales I’ve had and loads of caramel. Couldn’t get any smoke notes. Good stuff anyway. 2007 bottle: same color, similar notes but smoke notes are obvious. Better. 7/4/7/4/15

Poured a cloudy dark brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma is carmel, sweet smoke, and roasted malts. Flavors were carmel and roasted malts with some sweet smoke and molasses.

Hazy dark brown colour. Toasty, smokey aroma with a hint of brown sugar that also reminds me of a toasted coconut doughnut. So it would mix well with a coffee stout, then? Sweet, with rich toffee notes and accents of molasses and wood. I found the sweetness started to get to me by the end of the bomber but it’s a pretty solid beer and if sweet is your thing, do it up.

Sweet toffee nose. Cloudy, dirty brown color that lingers on the palate. Very well balanced.

Sample at Indy tasting Dick’s BBQ 3/31/06 - Aroma of toffee, carmel, roasted malt, and raisin. Pours mud puddle brown with small head and decent lacing. Flavor matches aroma. Palate is sticky. Pretty tasty stuff.

22 oz bomber.. dark brown pour ,small wispy white head . nose of caramel and malt. good flavor of a sort of smokey/sweet caramel sugar mix . good mouthfeel and a pleasant alcohol warm , good stuff

Bottle shared with tupalev, jerc, blankboy & HogTownHarry - courtesy of HogTownHarry. Dark, murky ruby colour with a wispy head. Aroma is warm and boozy, with lots of caramel and a bit of smoke. Flavour of brown sugar, malt, whiskey & smoke. A bit hot, but pretty nice.

A good beer, with strong, roasty malts, particularly as it warms. I was actually surprised to see the relatively "low" alcohol content, which i had pegged in the 8% area. A little roastier than most scotch style beers I’ve tasted, but overall an excellent beer within the class.