Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale

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

Courtesy of douglas88. Pours copper/mahonagy with a thin white head. Smells of caramel, oatmeal, some peat moss, hints of bananas. Tastes of sweet caramel, earthy, touches of fruit, some peaty qualities. Enjoyable. Tastes like oatmeal cookies on the finish.

Copper coloured. Aroma is quite malty and sweet. Pale crystal, some butterscotch. Mouthfeel is kind of slick and diacetyl loaded as well. Not a whole lot of complexity. Seems poorly made. It could use some smoke as well... but I feel that way about almost everything.

From the bottle this pours a rich caramel color with slight highlights of red. The head is a slender light tan that laces nicely throughout the drinking. The aroma is rich with malt - caramel & toffee with a touch of butterscotch - and filled with juicy fresh apples. The malts dominate the flavor with the addition of some peat smoke, the fruit tastes reduced to a supporting role. There’s an alcohol dryness to the finish. Nice.

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Tap@Brewpub, 6.5% ABV. Malty and light peaty aroma. Amber colour, beige head, good lace. Sweet, bitter, peaty, herbal hops, nutty. Sticky and soft mouth feel. Flavourful and highly drinkable.

NABA BeerFest 03: yummy scottish, I usually don't like them. The other ones at the fest sucked compared to this sculpted brew. Nutty malt body with a smooth flavor, easy to drink but filling at the same time.

Draught @ the brewpub. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Malty aroma with hints of dark fruit and caramel. Sweet malty fruity flavor with hints of dark fruit and hops. Has a sweetish malty fruity finish.

Again, the same trend as the IPA. A dark copper amber ale with a thick creamy off white head. Aroma of butterscotch and light cat pee. In mouth, a more astringent hops over very robust caramel, with treacle in finish, a bit peaty, but the hops are again very herbal, and the profile is veering towards an Orval (Brett). Interesting but definite infection. Bottle from Sherbrooke Liquors, Edmonton, Early 2007.

12 oz bottle, no date, courtesy of Larry Pitonka. Consumed at cellar temperature, from a St. Ambroise glass. No visible yeast in the bottle but the pour is very murky, dusty brown with very little head that decays to a thin ring....tobacco smoke and burnt caramel dominate the nose, joined when warmer by substantial alcohol notes and pungent green hops that don’t really add anything positive but confuse the senses....peaty, earthy character immediately hits the tongue, moderate to strong sweetness, all to the good for a bit until a somewhat unpleasant spoiled fruit/milk note emerges, which ends up rather dominating or at least contesting with the pleasant earthy caramel and, I think, ultimately winning....very low carbonation, somewhat oily, flat mouthfeel....it doesn’t add up to much, frankly.