Heather Ales Kelpie

Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Traditional Ale
Alloa, Central, Scotland

pour is dark and translucent, like a porter, taste is very malty and roasty, again like a porter. I don’t taste any seabreeze or seaweed. Basically, this is a better than average porter. Bottle from Knightly Spirits, Orlando.

(gr-btl bk-lbl, mix pack)
opq-bk, thin-tan-head, patchy-lace, med-light-body, med-co2,

aroma: chclt-malt,

taste:
T1 sweet bready §acidic(iron? / seaweed?)
T2 chclt-malt §water-based-paint
T3 §chrd §herbal-seaweed §acidic
^drinkable, too acidic/seaweed for session

Bottled 50cl. Leathery nose with a lot of roasted malt showing up. Paprika sneaking in. Salty taste. Low carbonation. Deeply pleasant. Nice bitterness. Salty finish which is reminiscent of tar, leather and phenols.

Bottle. This is a good beer! Taste like a good Dunkle or Porter. Nice coffee/chocolate undertones with a good "bite" of bitter that lingers on the tongue. Great stuff.

50cl bottle, as pictured. Pours almost a pitch-black, with a big, creamy light beige head. Good retention, plenty of lacing. Aroma of chocolate and coffee, and, yes, a soft breeze from the sea. ;=) Fairly light-bodied for what is, ultimately, a stout. Medium- to low carbonation, creamy but wee-watery mouth feel. Is it just make-believe, or is there really a note of salt water to this otherwise coffee-ish stout? I believe there is, and there’s also dark chocolate, as well as some interesting spicy herbs. Finish is bitter-ish and smooth, with a lingering coffee after taste. As well as some salt, which I should recognize because I took a dip in the English Channel just a few months back. And, no, I’m not kidding. With a heavier body, this brew would be perfect. As it is, it’s "just" lovely. ;=)

(bottle) Dark mahogany colour with a beige medium-sized foamy head. Moderately sweet roasted malty aroma with notes of chocolate, liquorice, salt and slightly fruity hops in the background. Sweet and slightly roasty bitter flavour, almost medium bodied with a smooth carbonation. Roasty malt character with notes of dark chocolate, caramel, liquorice and hints of fruity, almost a bit zesty aroma hops; sweet and slightly bitter roasted finish with notes of slightly salty chocolate in the aftertaste. Aromatic brew. 15.XI.09

500ml bottle. Appearance: Dark brown, almost black with a nice brown head, no lace left in the glass. Aroma: Smells of roasted grain, chocolate and coffee. Taste: Tastes of roasted malt with a hint of coffee. No lingering aftertaste. This is a good beer that I will definitely buy again.

thin brown head and a deep, dark brown glass of liquid. Initial nose is ROASTED malt. first flavor is burned/roasted grain. Not much subtlety here. Not much complexity here. It is a pretty comfortable big flavor for a low alcohol beer, but there isn’t much all that interesting happening. The finish doesn’t give much more. Seaweed? You would think there would be something more brewing with odd-ball ingredients like some salt or some sea air. Not finding it in my bottle.