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.
Engaging wee heavy lets smoked chocolate malting pick up caramelized bourbon pleasantry, mild dewy sweetness and light hop spicing above honeyed rye spine. Sweet chocolate continuance gains latent prune-stewed dried fruiting.
Chewy wee heavy loads gooey sea-salted caramel salting atop spicy hop bite for viscous 7.5% sweet scape. Toffee-spiced continuance gains thick molasses sinew, boozy whiskey-cognac restraint and sugared pecan-chestnut nuttiness.
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.
Impressive Scottish Ale coalesces stylish barley-roasted Maris Otter malts, dark-roasted chocolate scamper, dewy peat earthiness and sharp hop spicing. Brown-sugared molasses sweetness contrasts mildly bitter walnut astringency beneath the surface.
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.
Insubstantial Scottish Ale lacks advertised spruce tips influence, settling into grassy-hopped citric murk above mossy grain mustiness. Tinny astringency defers molasses maple sugaring and cheap Scotch astringency.
