Pours dark brown with off-white head that lasts. Aroma of malt, toffee, caramel, brown sugar and coconut. Taste to follow with a strong caramel malt and bourbon presence. Mmm Mmm good.

Central Waters has an impressive lineup of different beers and this one is my favorite. Very smooth and slightly sweet taste. Not really like any other scotch ales but it’s probably the best I’ve had. Smooth, Dark and potent. I also recommend the CW Loch Ness Scotch Ale.

On draught at the brewpub in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Pours a clear cola brown brew with a creamy off-white head that slowly dissolves to a white ring with excellent lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel malt, toffee, distinct brown sugar, licorice and coconut. Taste is medium to full bodied, hardly any carbonation with flavors of caramel malt with bourbon and coconut. Finish is sweet, sugary with caramel and bourbon flavors. Pretty nice barrel aged scotch ale but no outside growler sales.

Central Waters does a bourbon barrel version of half their line-up (and usually intensely bourbony), which is great, because I love anything barrel-aged, but not so great in that many of them start to taste similar. Still, this was very good, and different enough. Big bourbon aroma and taste, with some backtaste of almost buttery caramel and a sweet nuttiness. Hard to identify this as a Scotch ale – but we’ll call that an example of creativity. Recommended.

GABF 2006. Ruby tinged copper. Nose is big bourbon. There’s some sweetness to this as well. More bourbon in the taste, caramel, sweet , creamy malts, and syrupy notes. Faint peaty notes here but it’s still mainly bourbon. Body is medium with mild carbonation. Ends with more bourbon, sugary sweetness and caramel.