Port Townsend Peeping Peater Scotch Ale

Brewed by Port Townsend Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Port Townsend, Washington USA

22 oz bottle (but doen’t say Peeping Peter). Anyway, pours very dark red with a small head. Aroma is mild coffee. Taste has a light sweetness but is mostly roasty. If you didnt know better, you’d think it’s a porter. Somewhat sweet and hardly hoppy. Not bad but could use some more peat flavor and less roastiness.

Muddy mahogany color with decent off-white head. The nose is sweet with dark caramel and bourbon soaked oak, light vanilla and a touch of diacetyl; lightly smoky. The flavor is chewy and clean with a nice malt profile that really takes a bit of time for my palate to absorb. Finishes medium bodied, toasty and a bit of alcohol feel. Good Scotch ale, a bit more IBUs than I like but it was still sweet enough in the initial flavor to be thoroughly enjoyable.

Dark brown appearance, good head formation. Malty, caramel aroma. Decent creamy palate, rich malty flavores, caramel/butterscotch, mildly smokey, dark chocolate, fairly heavy hop bitterness in the finish for the style. Lingering Thornton’s toffee aftertaste, pretty tastey stuff.

Draft. Dark brown and burgundy colored. Creamy tan head. Scotch and maple pancake syrup, with some actual pancake aromas and flavors as well. Creamy up front, but then harsh smoke flavored on the back, much like a rauchbier. Pasty texture, weird I would call it. Not the best example of a scotch ale.

Bottle pours dark brown with red hues, thin white dishwater like head, with very sparce lacing.   Aroma is comprised of roated malts (albeit very faint) and burnt sugar.   Charred wood dominates as I take my first sip.   This is quickly followed by light hop juice with a hint of maltiness.   At the tail end it seems to thin out a bit, and quite quickly too.   No real caramel type flavor that I was hoping for.   Not bad, but I was hoping for a bit more complexity.

Crystal-clear brown-amber with moderate head, light lace..Aroma was nice blend of sweet, roasty and slightly smoky components...Flavor has similarly fine blend of flavors, assertive but also well-balanced...excellent mouthfeel as well--substantial, smooth-textured, with a nice bitterness in the finish that owes both to its roastiness and some hop comments. I am well-impressed by this effort, the best I've tried from this outfit.

Had on tap at the Downrigger in Port Angeles, Wa. Pleasant dark amber appearance with an off-white sticky head with light lacing. Has a bit of a Christmas spice aroma. Good stick to your ribs flavor - slightly spicy with a bit of hoppy trailing bitterness. Good, thick mouthfeel. First impression is that it is a bit phenolic - but it mellows as it warms.

I don’t usually like Scottish Ales, but this one was damn good. Nice and buttery, rich palate. My first choice from the brewery.