Pelican MacPelicans Scottish Style Ale

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Pacific City, Oregon USA

Sampled this with cigarsnbeer. I remember it to be quite enjoyable. Not bad at all. Decent beer.

Tap@Pelican Brewpub. Quite bready/malty. Some toastyness, but very faint. Sweet toffee and failry thin, with little depth of flavour, not great, but OK.

Had this 22 oz bomber at the Elizabeth Street Inn on the beach at Newport ,Oregon, sitting on the balcony watching the daylight sink below the Pacific ocean on a wonderful warm late October Saturday ( yesterday). In appearance this is a deep dark copper beer with not much of a head but nice lace. Wow a real peaty almost smokey in a Islay Single malt whisky sort of way..intrigueing and very good. After the great smell the taste though ok was a let down some nice smooth malts and a slight smokiness and peat..this is as the bottle said an "Export style" Scottish ale much like the macEwans export I used to drink in Scotland ( perversly its called McEwans IPA now). Sort of thin in the mouth but yet it satisfies. After all this was quite a nice drinkable beer..but dont expect a Scotch ale.

Draft: Sour malt nose. Clean amber color. A certain taste I associate with lager. Nutty/sour. Clean drinkin, some linguring bitterness. Good beer, though it seems off from what I think of a scottish.

NABA BeerFest 03: A nice tasting nutty little beer. Nothing too exciting here, very typical.

This ale had little head, was slightly cloudy and the body was too thin. It did feature a nice malty flavor but too many other aspects were lacking.

[rerate needed] A nice amber pour, medium head, smells hoppy and slightly sweet. Taste is slightly bitter, but a little too thin.

WAY TOO THIN for a "wee heavy." intense aroma hints at a malty sweetness, but is overcome immidiately by hops. I guess I really wasn’t impressed. It’s way too thin and wasn’t any more complex than long division.