Full Sail Keelhauler

22 oz bottle - pours a clear amber color with smallish light tan head. Aroma is nutty, with toasted caramel and chewy malts, hint of bourbon. Flavor has toasted malts, light caramel, touch of oak, bit metallic in the finish. Overall this is fairly average.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with an average, rocky light brown head, somewhat diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel, toasted grain, toffee, nutty), average hop (herbs), average yeast (leather, earth, leaves) with notes of plum, date, tar, dust, and burnt fruit. Medium bodied, oily texture, average carbonation, and a metallic finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

Bottle. Pours a very nice dark cola brown big froathy tan head. Aroma is malty, brown malt aroma, earthy spice some fruity esters ok but not great for the style. Flavor is malty and earthy a slight roastiness that i enjoy slight esters ok again. Overall very drinkable and I enjoy it.

Unpleasant fruity esters. Harsh medicinal fumes. Slight acidity. Spicy/herbal hops. Lightly roasted coffee flavor. Medium kilned caramel and semi-sweet chocolate. Burnt sugar aroma and flavor. A touch of cocoa. Bitterness of roasted grains. Thick malty aroma. This beer would have been a passable Scottish Ale had it not seemed like the brewing methods failed.

Thanks Hayduke! Dark mahogany in color with a nice one finger head than has good retention. Beautiful lacing. A sweet malty aroma is light chocolate with some oak. Flavors are subtle but nice. Malt dominated with oak, vanilla, and some background hops. It is a quality offering by Full Sail. Nothing big about this one but quality ingredients and craftmanship make this a pleasant beer to drink.

Bottle: Pours a dark amber color with a nice puffy tan head. The nose is malty with a rich caramel flavor, light earthy hops and toasty wood note. The flavor is earthy and deep with a sweeter raisin note and some additional caramel. The finish is lightly smoky with some additional maltiness and sweetness. Good scottish.

Thick lasting head on dark copper. Attractive very dark ambe in the sun. Rich malty nose, earthy and woody. Earthy flavour with strong hops adding spice. Very good tasty malt beer.

As far as Scotch ales goes, this is semi-weak. As far as a Scotch ale from FS goes, it’s really not bad! And it was nice to see them attempting the style. Pours dark amber. Smells of lots of sweet dark fruit malts, tiny bit of spice. Flavor is a lot of dark fruity malts in between the regular hop profile FS uses, and ends with a light earthy smoke. Very light. Medium body that’s slightly watery in the middle. Beef this guy up a bit and you’ve got yourself a dandy!