Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale

Bottle from someoneorother. This actually has a very enchanting, unique, subtle aroma. Grapefruit sweetness, cinnamon, and cherry pits abound, with great complexity and depth. Doesn’t really hold up, though. There is a definite soda-pop kinda flavor straight out, and the finish is malty and chewy and a little bland.

My Bottom Line:
Uninvited brettanomyces spikes the frail toffee and orangey fruitiness walks about drunkenly. This is either an off batch or a scotch ale that does not age well at all.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam circles the cloudy amber.
-Dusty yeast roams about.
-The body is thin (eaten by the wild yeast infection?) and the carbonation too prickly for the style.
-Even if you took away the infection, I don’t think you’d end up with a malt fest worthy of the best scotch ales.

Bottle; Sorry Mike!

This is a fairly hoppy beer that can still be enjoyed be almost any beer drinker. One of my favorite beers. Great to have with friends. It’ll get you drunk!

Bottle poured an amber color with a slightly off-white head that diminished to nothing. Strong, roasted malt aroma. Highly carbonated and flavors of malt, toffee, nut and that added roasted or smoke presence. Pretty mediocre, I haven’t had many scotch ales so I don’t really have anything to compare it to.

I felt that this one did not reach the standards I had hopped for as I want an Scotch Ale to resemble the real thing.

Thanks to Carter for tihs bottle. Reddish amber color with no head at all. A little sweet malt with earthy notes. Don’t get much hops. Rather flat...maybe oxidized. Caramel and mushrooms on the finish.

From a 12 oz bottle. This was also called "ruby ale" on the bottle. It poured a light amber, very clear, with a small white head and light lacing. Nose is mostly of malts and hops;. Medium mouthfeel and flavor is somewhat sweet. There is a little fruit and bit of herbal taste. Mild finish.

12 oz bottle shared at volgons. light amber in color. Aroma is caramel and sweet, some oxidation present. Taste is malty, light to medium bodied. trace notes of smoke. OK.