Starr Hill Psycho Kilter

Brewed by Starr Hill
Style: Scotch Ale
Crozet, Virginia USA

Serve in Thistle

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Bottle. Pours dark brown with tan head ring. Nice lacing. Nose and taste of malt, caramel, light resin and lightly smoked wood. Touch of burnt caramel in the finish. Body on the lighter side of medium for the ABV.

Weak aroma of dried leaves.Clear tea colored, medium yellow head, good lacing. LIghtly sweet malt, oaky flavor accented by a pleasant yet uncharacteristic for the style grapefruity hop note. Elderberry is also present. Carbonation is soft and easy, medium body. Hops are excessive for the style, so this won’t appeal to the purists, but it’s very enjoyable.

I actually added bourbon to this it was so shitty.. Very bland and malty.. Not happy I purchased this

Bottle. Ruby-copper with a tall, frothy tan head. Aroma is nutty and sweet with malt notes, caramel and a weird booziness. Taste is more along the lines of what I expected - chewy caramel, sweet malt, toasted grains, soft booze and dark fruit notes. Body is medium and slightly chewy with a strong, bubbly carbonation and mild alcoholic warmth. Ends with more caramel notes, sweet malt, chocolate covered nuts, dark fruit and light alcohol.

Bottle. Pours reddish-brown with a medium, off-white head. Aromas of caramel malts, earth and light dark fruits. Sweet malty flavor and note much else. Overall pretty boring and bland.

22 oz. bottle. Pours mahogany with a shortlived tan head and no lacing. Malty and nutty aroma, a little sweet and with a dry finish.

Bomber from Capone’s. Pours translucent ruby; dark brown through indirect light, with frothy tan head. Nose is roasty scotch malt, red winey fruit, hops. Tastes of roasty patent and vienna malts, fine tobacco, grapey fruit, hops, mild rauch. Finishes dry, roasty, and malty, with a peaty scotch ale profile.

Bottle. Pours clear mahogany with a medium, creamy light tan head, short retention with good lacing. Aroma is caramel, cookie, and honey malt with light earthy notes, date and fig dried fruity esters. Flavor is malt dominant with light fusel alcohol, dark dried fruity esters, faint hops and bitterness with a sweet finish. Full body and medium carbonation.

I like Starr Hill more than not, and this is one of their better beers. It pours a bright brown, similar to a Belgian triple, with a medium head. The aroma is slight, I picked up on some of the roasted malt, but not a lot else. I’d honestly expected more in the way of aroma. The flavor is very good. Spicey, bitter, pungent roasted malt finishes with a mild hop tingle and a little heat (9.3% ABV). This might be the most complex of the Starr Hill brews I’ve had, and if it comes out in 12 oz bottles I’ll buy it again.

toast, citrus, golden, clear, white foam, frothy, medium sweetness, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation,