This is the first time I’ve been disappointed by a Grumpy Troll beer. It’s caramel-colored, but too pale for a Scotch ale. The nose has a healthy dose of something resembling paint thinner. Caramel-toffee flavors. Can hardly find any peatiness underneath the candy-like caramel and that lingering chemical smell. Possibly a bad batch, but that’s the chance you take.

22oz bottle. Poured a medium and lightly hszy amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, butterscotch, lightly earthy, roast, and toffee. Tastes of caramel, roast, some chocolate, and lightly earthy.

Poured a reddish amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of butterscotch, toffee, roasted malts, light cocoa, and a bit of citrus. Taste of sweeter caramel malts, some toffee, roast, smoke, cocoa, toast, and faint alcohol in the finish.

Thanks to hopdog for sharing this one. Pours a mostly translucent golden amber with a medium creamy bubbly off white head. Aroma of light peat smoke, toffee, some citrus notes, toffee and some caramel. Flavor was much of the same. Doesn’t exactly look like a Scotch Ale, but it was solid in taste and aroma. A little thin.