Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle)

500. Pours dark straw color with a moderate white suday head. Light floral and grassy nose with some sweat in there. Decent lace on the way down. Soft carb, lightish body, clean sweet flavors of grass and floral and hay, maybe very faint lemon. This is a fairly nondescript beer that my sweet spots for whatever reason determine to be a perfect food accompaniment. It’s not too awfully much as a sipper or a quaffer, but it just happens to seem perfect next to a plate of grub, especially outside. I can’t even explain it, because I don’t think it’s all that special, but it works, so I go with it.

Bottle. Interesting brew this, I picked up floral notes, some bitterness and an overall ’oddness’. Glad I had it but I wouldn’t go out of my way to drink it again. Still, the utmost respect for these brewers.

Thanks to beer buddy ghawener. A very different ale from what I had tasted before. A very mild ale and all flavors were subtle, very different from the powerful ales produced today. I would say my palate is accostumed to richer flavors.

Sweet malty aroma with hay, citrus, and honey accents. Orange amber color with a tan bubbly head of moderate duration. Flavor is flowery and sweet at first and then moves toward bitterness. Honey and spice flavors with a tea like quality. Lightly creamy in the mouth perhaps a bit thin with a lightly dry finish. Moderate carbonation. Notably good on the aroma and flavor.

Picked this up at ABC. Seem’s that ABC has grown up a bit. Much better selection of micros. Pourd this into a cloudy brownish urine colour. Taste was offensive at first but mellowed out into a nice pubalesessioner. Nose is sweet malts and caramel, and sugar scotch-e. Taste warms up into sweet malts, honey, peat and a mild roasted flavour. Not too hoppy though. Soe citric flavours, but the sweet malty and barely ness of it is very enjoyable.

Bottle. Light golden pour, no lacing. Grainy w/ hint of fruit. Floral aroma.

Poured cloudy dull orange, with small quickly diminishing head. Aroma is funky and grainy with some sweet notes of orange, pommegranate and a little alc. Tastes dull sweet malt, cranberry. Body is very light, with a tiny carb taste. At first sip it is boring and almost puts me off, but as I let it sit in my mouth I warm up to it and it takes on the velvty texture that I imagine a heather ale should have. This can’t change the rest of the beer for me though. Blehh...

Peat smoked aroma with honey. Poured blonde. The flavor was dry sweet, than bitter. Mead-like flavor with sweet fruits.