Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale

Shared at the superpower beer session in Tårnrommet, part one. Clear, amber-ruby content with a filmy-like head. Aroma is a mix of wood, oak and malts. Rich malty taste profile with a fragile peaty touch. Fine drinkability. Thanks to Stefan and Elisabeth for carrying a 355ml bottle all the way from Seattle to Tromsø [13.01.2009].

Pours a hazy copper color from the bottle with a beige head. Looks, smells, and tastes nothing like a scotch ale. If anything, I would gesture that this is an abbey dubbel. Aroma and flavor of overripe red apples, cinnamon, caramel, and faint pear. A bit high in water content, but not bad.

(11/3/08) Bottle sample at a tasting in Pizza Port in Carlsbad (thanks whoever) Muddy brown. Aroma of malt, earthy hints and some caramel. Sweetish and slightly odd flavor with some graininess, malt, caramel and some fruitiness.

This was a really nice beer and Scotch Ales have been hitting the spot for me this winter. Poured a dark amber hue with a foamy bubbly head. There’d better be some nice alcoholic sweetness on the nose to any good Scoth Ale and this one did not disappoint. Mouthfeel was smooth and tingly with apple, peach, scotch, malty flavours cascading over the senses genlty and settling me into a nice state to slumber like a bear.

Smell is caramel, malts, sweet, peat desserty. Look is amber to red in color not much of its off white head. Taste is caramel, malts, sweet, fruit, and peat. Missing and disappointing.

500 ML bottle. Pours dark with a smallish head. Aroma is malt with a good sweet dirt flavor. Pretty easy going and sessionable despite the 6.6

A dark amber beer with slow bubbles rising and a tiny head, more like a film. Strong malt aroma with a bit of sweetness and molasses character. Very strong flavor, kicks you on the first sip. Strong peaty flavors along with malt, and smokiness and sweetness. Finishes with some hoppy bite.

Tasted at the Pizza Port Bottle shop in November with some other Ratebeer folks. Dont know who brought this one. Average to under-average Scotch Ale. Sweet malty flavor with and earthy and smoky aroma. Finishes thin with some tones of dark fruit. Not much body and a bit of a metallic aftertaste.