Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: Scotch Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Bottle. Extremely malty aroma, faint smoke and peat with light fruitiness. Copper-amber body with a rocky tan head and medium-strong carbonation. Crisp, slightly sharp taste, caramel malt dominant. Peat recession, but the fruitiness remains. Medium body with lingering caramel aftertaste and a faint touch of sourness. Solid and balanced, a good but not great one. Thanks, Jake!

Strong caramel aroma. Maybe hop peaked through; or not. Copper color with a white head that rapidly filmed out, though it left hints of lace. Medium bodied. Pretty foamy. Starts a bit non-descript, but malt definitely shows up as the carbonation leaves. Which thins the body. Not really getting smokiness. Lightly hopped it is. Very. The finish is actually a bit dry, if you wait for the malt to drain away. It leaves a warm sensation in the tummy, but little, if any, bitter in the mouth. Sort of a standard alcohol scotch style, with perhaps standard malt, but it just seems a bit bland (to plagiarize from puzzl).

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.