Front Street Dram Tree Scottish Ale

Brewed by Front Street Brewery (NC)
Style: Scottish Ale
Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Dark reddish-brown pour with a short fine tan head. Nose is sweet and malty, with light caramel, roasty and peat notes. Flavor is malty with some peat and nuttiness, but fairly bitter with a dry finish. Palate is medium and carbonation is moderately low. Good beer.

On tap at the Durham WBF. Dark brown with a creamy tan head. Mild, smoky peat nose, sweet malt. Rich malty flavor balanced well with a decent hop bite and an even smokiness. Nice.

Name: Dream Tree Scottish Ale
Date: 12/17/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

dark ruby red, scant beige head, traces of lace, light smokey aroma, good body, rich malt flavor, caramel sweetness is well balanced by a hint of peat and earthy hops,
-------- /> Name: Dream Tree Scottish Ale
Date: 11/18/2007
Mode: growler
Source: tasting
Score: 3.2 to 3.4

sweet dark caramel malt aroma with lots of smokey character and a light earthyness, rich dark caramel flavor, nice sweetness from the caramel, touch of chocolate, well balanced earthy peat character,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

Draft at brewpub. Nearly opaque brown-black with a fair-lasting head. Nose is dark fruit and slight cocoa. Flavor is chocolate raisins with a hint of a smoky finish. Medium bodied and kind of flat carbonation.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours deep mahogany with fading beige head. The aroma is slightly roasty with some caramel and a hint of nuts. The flavor is some charred roastiness and distant caramel with roasted nut shells. The finish is slightly burnt-tasting with some grain and raw wood notes. Pretty good.

This beer is very good. Pours incredibly dark brown with a nice light brown head. Aroma is heavy on earth, soil and some wood. Taste is a creamy blend of Soil and huge peat with some light smoke but just a touch so as not to overpower rich and powerful taste gives way to a semi-sweetness of the malts and ends with a very pleasing bitterness. This is a mighty fine scottish ale from a very unknown brewpub.

Pours a dark translucent brown with a dark tan head. Has some hints of lacing. Has hints of roasted malts, different sugars, and a small hop taste. Finishes medium bodied and creamy on the tongue.

Pours a solid brown color with a thin tan ring of foam. Little lacing, Earthen aromas of peat, soil, and malts. Creamy flavors of the same, with an added bonus of more peat (subtley smoky) in the aftertaste. Smooth and drinkable; dangerously so with the lack of any alcohol presence....until it’s too late.