Lake Louie Warped Speed

Brewed by Lake Louie Brewing
Style: Scottish Ale
Arena, Wisconsin USA

12 fl oz bottle. Pours unclear and deep brown with a slowly collapsing tan head. Lacto/milky and mild roasted malt to chocolate malty aroma. Mild lacto and chocolate malty flavour, goes nicely together. Light liqourice. Smooth acidic and malty finish with a liqourice lingering note. Nice one although I don’t think it was intended this way.

Sweet and malty, lots of caramel, kettle caramelization, maybe a touch of peat smoke. Dark copper color. Thinnish mouthfeel. Taste is woodsy, with light malt and caramel. Somewhat sour. This has sat in my cellar since August, so maybe the age has not been kind to the beer, but there are some flaws here.

Bottle thanks to CMUBEERMAN. Pours hazy orange brown, off white head. Aroma is malt caramel, vanilla, subtle coffee. Flavor is the same and very bitter. This would be better if there was less vanilla and more coffee in the flavor. The sweet and bitter taste makes it seem rather chemical-y.

Tampa Tuesday tasting night – blind tasting, courtesy of Degarth. Pours brown with tan head. The aroma is caramel backed up by oak and mild smoke followed by some chemical notes. The taste has a lot of wood, bourbon and burnt notes and faint roastiness. There’s also an odd chemical note mixing with the wood. Hmm. Really takes away from the enjoyment of the beer.

Cloudy dark amber with thin off-white head. Aromas of caramel, roasted malts & molasses. Medium palate. Tastes of caramel and sweet malts. Semi-sticky and light on the hops but a decent beer nonetheless.

Bottle Tampa Scotch Ale Blind Tasting. Pours amber with a small light tan head that leaves some lacing. Aroma is very astringent and sour with a hint of sweet malt in the background. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium thin mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and slightly sour finish. I think the bottle was infected.

3/25/2008: Warped Speed Scotch Ale is amber brown in color and has a thin ivory head and lasting crown. Its aroma is vaguely malty with currents of butterscotch and it seems slightly sour/burnt(?). Some roasted malt can be found in the dry, earthy flavor as well as some mild to moderate bitterness in the finish. There is also lingering bitter coffee and dark chocolate flavors. The flavor seems slightly sour, bordering on burnt with weird butterscotch flavor meandering throughout it. When warmer, the aroma and flavor are totally butterscotch with some interlaced roasty sourness and a sourish coffee finish. This beer has an average palate and a medium body. Unfortunatly this is just an okay beer overall. I definitely needs some work including more maltiness, caramelization, and body; less lingering bitterness.

12 fl. oz. bottle. Rating # 71 for this beer...

Not bad; I’d have this again. Not really peaty or earthy, but there is some caramelness here that is balanced by some isoamyl acetate, spice, and sourness. Nice appearance; blood red color with sparkling body. Nice quantity of head, which is itself sort of non-descript. I got a little isoamyl acetate in the nose, along with some peatiness which was largely overwhelmed by caramel. Nice caramel flavor tinged with some spice and a touch of sour. Not bad, but not really Scotch Ale-ish. Mouthfeel is pretty appropriate. A nice beer. I bought this single serve 12oz from Three Cellars in Franklin, WI.