Bethlehem Brew Works Bagpipers Brew

Brewed by Bethlehem Brew Works
Style: Scotch Ale
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

(draft, Bethlehem, listed as Bagpiper’s Scotch Ale, at 7.5% ABV) Crystal clear amhogany body topped by beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, light peat, cherry. Taste is moderately sweet, cherry, syrup, caramel, faint peat aftertaste. Sticky medium-full body.

On tap at the Bethlehem Brew Works Brew Pub. Poured a dark reddish brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas and tastes of roasted malts, light toffee, and light peat lurking in there as well.

on tap-pours a tan head with brown color & ruby red tint. Aroma is sweet medium malt-butterscotch. Taste is sweet medium malt-butterscotch, smokey/roasty, secondary hops bitterness. Medium body. OK carbonation.

Very nice foamy beige head tops the clearish burgundy body. Candyish and very earthy nose. Mild peatiness lends a certain deepness to the malt profile. Caramel, soy and soil work hands in hands. Bready overtones aptly cover the earthiness on the palate. Pretty rich malt, grapey and slightly smoky. Very good stuff. Thanks Erica!

The Lure:
Enticing caramel and toffee smoke pulls the nose closer into the growler to find an able roasted malt. Wealth lives within.

The Festivities:
Decent roastiness spikes the caramel malt. Fruitiness diversifies the rotund body. This achieves a full malt exposure without ever being cloying or too heavy.

Transcendence:
For a grandfather in the Highlands, a regular meal is a hearty meal.

Pours reddish amber, with medium head. Aroma of malt, toffee, cabernet. Tastes of malt, scotch, cabernet, and slight nuts. Medium palate, and a smooth finish.

Sample from growler at the Ratebeer Mondial gathering, chateau de tiggmtl. Dark maple-walnut color, near-opaque, hint of foamy ring and mere touch of lace...smoky charcoal, caramel, burnt sugar in the substantial nose, lovely example of style...body doesn’t hold to the standard set in the aroma though, rather watery, some nice caramel malts and chocolate and vanilla lend it a decent flavor profile, but ultimately it doesn’t measure up.

Caramel, toffee, candy-like sweetness and perhaps a whiff of smoke in the aroma. Opaque brown body with amber highlights is topped by a low, off-white head that diminishes to partial cover and ring. Chocolate, plums, caramel and toffee flavours up front are chased by a roasty bitterness. Some odd spiciness in the finish. Medium body feels syrupy due to low carbonation at first but follows through to a dry, roasty finish. Growler sampled at the Ratebeer Mondial Gathering 2005.