Middle Ages Kilt Tilter

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Scotch Ale
Syracuse, New York USA

(bottle - 22 oz) Dark ruby red pour with a thick tan head. Caramel and malts abound in the aroma, but beyond that, it’s relatively mild. The taste is very sweet at the start. Lots of malt with a caramel middle and a nice and sweet finish with a slightly bitter and malty aftertaste. Very creamy in the mouth.

This is a very heavily malted Scotch ale with a lot of caramel flavor in it The dryness is there and it has a full aroma. This is definately a quality beer in my mind and tongue. It seems to have a more diverse array of flavors than McEwans Scotch Ale but it could use a bit more in the hops department. I find it a bit too dry as well.

Bottle from Dan (jah noth), now labeled simply "Kilt Tilter" and arriving in at 9.0% ABV! Deep red body, medium light tan head. A liquid garnet. Caramely aroma with berries and hints of cola, with notes of cherry and yeasty earthiness as well. Hits with bitter, dense toasty notes, opening up into caramels and sweet, candied berries and cherries. The alcohol kicks in and enhances delicate balance between bitter and sweet. Complex yet subtle; this beer isn’t about slamming one’s palate with ridiculous overhopping or sickly sweet, unfermented malts. If this was a blind tasting, I’d be just as likely to peg this as a Belgian Strong Ale than as a Scotch Ale. This is the perfect Christmas beer, and the perfect beer for winter in general, if you live in a place where snow drapes itself across the landscape and chestnuts were once roasted over the open fire, before the blight hit. But, wait, those are English chestnuts...nevermind. In any event, do yourself a favor and find this beer. Many thanks to Dan for this most surprising treat!

Pours dark amber with a thick tan head. Good lacing. Aroma has cherries, scotch, caramel and butterscotch. Quite powerful in terms of the alcohol in the taste and the aroma. The palate was a bit watery. This is good stuff I must say. Good tart taste which is perfect for a winter evening. It is a bit early for it now but I still enjoyed it. Nice stuff.

Pours a brilliantly clear, yet deep amber color that is topped by a creamy 1 finger thick light brown head. The aroma is malty with notes of caramel, marshmallows, sweet cherries, toasted bread with a sugar glaze that has been just so slightly burnt at the edges. The aroma is not big and boisterous, but it is solid and interesting, just like a good Scotch ale should be.

This beer is fairly dry, it still has a malty sweet edge to it, just not quite as much as I was expecting. There is a full range of malty flavors here; from the deep caramel notes, to the lightly toasted perhaps even hint of roasted malt notes in the finish. There is a hint of butterscotch here, but just barely and it seems to magnify the overall maltiness of this beer. As the beer warms up a bit the mouth feel/ palate of this beer begins to pick up and it starts to coat the mouth after each sip. It also begins to pick up a candied cherry note, almost a bit reminiscent of cough syrup, in the finish, though it is not enough to be detracting. There is a bit of a tannic bite here as well, almost woody and there is a suggestion of smoke (though I might just be imagining this) and a definite salty note as well. This beer is quite simply about the malt, there is a bit of balancing bitterness in the finish, and maybe a hint of hop flavor, but really it is all about melanoids and carmalized malt notes; quite tasty.

Draft at Sippin’ by the River 2005 - Good but a bit sweet (which is surprising for the high alcohol content). I didn’t notice the alcohol in the taste at all, though (but I had already tasted a bunch by then).

Draft at Sippin by the River ’05. Very enjoyable Scotch. Up there with Brooklyn; much prefered style to the many Fests the brewers are serving up this time of year.

22 oz bottle. Rich tan head doesnt last long, collaping in the center. Taste is a bit medicinal with some dried fruit. Theres an earthy taste thats like fresh soil. Just some chocolate flavor that I’d like to tste more of. Denent stuff.