McGuires Peated Scotch Ale

On tap at the 2008 edition of the Florida Brewer’s Guild Beer Fest. Pours hazy brown with orange hues holding up a lasting ring of white foam along with faint spotty lacing. The aroma has solid peatiness along with earthiness and light roasty malts. Nice scotch ale mixture. I also get a mild background of sweet maltiness running along the earthy and peaty aromas. The taste is much like the aroma with delicious peaty malts with some earthiness. At a lower level I taste faint date like prune like fruity esters. I also get a faint drying malt astringency going along with just as faint vague hop tartness or bitterness that provides a pleasing added complexity to the experience. The peat really lingers well into the after taste along with faint date and prune dark fruitiness.