Atlantic MacFoochies 7+ Scottish Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Bottle Tampa Scotch Ale Blind Tasting. Pours dark amber with a light tan head. Aroma of sweet caramel, licorice, smoke, and light alcohol. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium thin mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness. Very good.

Way too much alcohol - really a scotch ale, so the label fooled me when it said Scottish Ale. Peaty. Thick. Not very sweet. Roasted and dry. Bitter. Didn’t like it much.

Mar. 2007 - Dark pour, little head or lacing. Charred aroma. Flavor was heavy smoke and peat, a hint of sweetness. One dimensional, but not horrible. A decent representation of styl

Bomber via jrob_21 - thanks, Jonathan! Happy to get my hands on this, the experiment sounds good, at least in theory. Sweet chocolate-and-mocha aroma, light peaty smoke with only a faint herbal note and a touch of alcohol. Loaded with malt. Pour is a muddy, 95% opaque dark brown body with a lacing, soapy light brown head. Light peat, smoke, molasses, and grape taste, with lots of caramel and a just a little gritty toffee. Some nice, but faint, earthy bitterness, and a delicate herbal tone somewhere in the bg, which does have a heatherish ring, but could just as easily be confused with juniper, as far as I’m concerned. Passing whiff of a long-gone hæð-stapa, nothing more, and mostly in the aftertaste. Chocolate notes are turned down significantly, but the underlying scotch ale is of a high grade. Medium-full body is deceivingly viscous and coating, but it’s not the sort of drenching, soaking type I was looking for. Alcohol seems to be about half of the listed 7.8% abv. A good one!

22oz bottle, courtesy of wickedpete. Thanks, Pete! Pours a clear, dark amber-brown color; minimal off-white head. Caramel and brown sugar in the aroma; a good bit of smoke / charred malts. Medium mouthfeel: brown sugar, caramel, and some light pepperiness upfront; mild carbonation; roasted malts and undeveloped sugars. Medium, sticky sugar and burnt caramel in the finish.

Pours very dark brown with faint reddishness when held to the light along with a dense tan head. The aroma has bread, toffee, dark red grapes and caramelized malt. Medium rich body that gets thinner with semi-sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with toasted caramel malt, spices and herbal traits. The finish brings out the heather along with some dryness and green tea. Decent beer.

Bottle. black-brown coloring. 1" foamy, lacey head. Oak, walnut, malty. Thin to weak body, almost soda like. No depth or complexity behind the initial flavoring.

Bottle: Deep brown pour with a reddish hue and a creamy light tan head. Aroma has some roasted caramel malt, metallic suggestions, light tobacco and a subtle lavender hint. Nice creamy and mild carbonation. In the flavor there’s a pleasant soft malt presence, which is both slightly sweet and rich, as well as toasted and earthy. It’s also mildly smoky, with hints of tea leaf, dark caramel and a slightly minty presence when it warms. Some roasted tobacco notes in the mildly peppery finish. A creamy and tasty Scotch Ale.