Belhaven Scottish Ale / Export (Bottle & Keg)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Dark copper poured from a 500ml bottle, very nice clarity. Wide range of aromas. A doughy maltiness dominates with hints of peat, banana, and bitter hops. Medium in body and slightly bitter in the mouth with a mostly dry finish.

Earthy, dirt aroma. Clear copper with very thin head. Earthy notes with very few notes of hops. Smooth with a dry finish.

Deep amber beer. Aroma of caramalt and fruity ester. The taste is malty and soft with a nice bitterness. Overcarbonated in the bottle version.

can (nitro) pours cloudy and thick with some beautiful settling leaving a big creamy head. golden yellowish amber color. very subtle aroma of hops and very smoked caramel. light creamy mouthfeel that drinks very easy with a touch of oats and a nice scotch ale taste. wonderful session beer thats a definate favorite of mine.

A clear rich ruby amber with a decent frothy white to offwhite head. The nose is subtly sweet with some toast, light caramel malt, and something downright grapey? A little bit of fruit and I may even get a hint of wood and smoke. Rather creamy and smooth for a filtered and pasteurized bottle, but then again, it still feels slightly lifeless from the process. Sweet malt, more than I would’ve thought from the nose. Again, a bit grapey. Toast and caramel malt, some floral hops, some definitely woody smoke too. Creamy. A creamy finish to fruity to diacetyl. Toasty aftertaste going to slight floral hop bite, to smokey wood. Not a bad beer by any stretch, though the toast does bug me.

Caramel color with good nitro-pour characteristics. Nutty aroma along with caramel. Creamy, full mouth feel with some smoke and subtle sweet caramel notes.

A good beer I tried poured from the bottle into a pint glass, I enjoyed it more and more as I drank. The aroma is dense, with caramel malt easily noticeable, along with some dark and strong fruit scents, and perhaps a bit of bubble gum and pine. A dark amber color with a medium-sized, creamy tan head, and a semi-cloudy appearance. Taste was initially a bit grainy and sour, with good bitterness, and evened out as the beer breathed. The texture was wet and full with a slightly dry finish. It had low carbonation and was slightly fizzy, and became creamier as I drank. Overall, the beer had a rough start, but came together nicely and performed well.

Bottled 355ml. A beautifully amber coloured beer. The nose is fruity. malty, ripe fruit aromas. Hay-like elements in the taste, malty, roasty, smoky, some apples, slightly sour, sweetish notes. The malt presence dominates the taste. Nutty flavor. This beer really combines some good elements which I really like. A very well balanced beer. Hay-like elements in the finish. Quite enjoyable, very powerful beer despite its low alcohol content...