Lovely holiday-spirited Scottish ale with spicy caramel kick brings sweetish dewy peat to chalky cocoa base as perky cinnamon-nutmeg spicing, laidback dried cherry tartness and roasted chestnut-almond-pecan combo stick to gluey wheat sugaring.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dewy Scotch-licked peated malts and lightly pungent truffle musk ride alongside earthen mineral grains atop crusty caramelized wheat toasting.
On tap at Blarney Stone - Onancock, dewy copper browned Scottish ale offers peaty Scotch-licked barley restraint to dried fruited orange oiling, mild green grape esters and biscuity flouring in flattish setting.
Complex Scottish ale integrates botanical angelica root herbage and earthen tobacco-roasted mossing with dark toffee-spiced brown chocolate over barley-smoked molasses pumpernickel breading, picking up latent prune-dried fig smidge. Fine Icelandic wee heavy knockoff.
On tap at Ambulance, smooth lightly creamed nitro version of well-known Scottish ale retains pleasant dewy peat sweetness, subtle nuttiness and phenol hop fizz in soothing manner. Simple, dependable, easygoing. In the nitro-injected widget can, frothily creamed crystal barley malting, dewy peat mossing and herbal Goldings hop astringency combine with mild Scotch twist for highly approachable wee heavy.
A warm bourbon-sweetened rye quilt provides mellow serenity for barrel-aged wee heavy. Mildly vinous red grape souring contrasts spicy caramelized malts as well as delightful sherry, merlot, armagnac and cognac illusions. Brown-sugared rye whiskey finish is heavenly.
On tap at Rhodes North Tavern, generously pale malted medium body lets Scotch-dried tobacco roast, dewy mossing and polite hops gain subtle cherry sweetness in balanced manner.
Slightly askew Scottie in a can oddly arranges dewy peat malting, 'residual honey sweetness' and casual dried fruiting. Nutty brown tea waver envelops fig-dried green grape tartness, mild mandarin orange twist and light cocoa smear at the back end.