Sheepscot Valley Bold Coast Pemaquid Ale

Brewed by Sheepscot Valley Brewing Company
Style: Scottish Ale
Whitefield, Maine USA

(Draft) Deep amber body, decent biege head. Aroma is some faint honey and maltiness. Pretty good lacing. Flavor is muted - mild malt and honey sweetness with mildly bitter finish. Mouthfeel smooth, a touch watery.

Pours an off-white, one-finger head that goes quickly and leaves hardly any lace. Clear copper/amber color. Low carbonation and medium bodied. Caramel nose. Starts with a burnt caramel/smoked hickory flavor, hints of bitterness at finish. $9.24 for a 64oz growler from Treats Wiscasset, Me.

(Draught) Sampled at the Great Lost Bear in Portland, ME. Pours headless atop a deep brown body. Very perfume nose. Flavour is malty with a bitter finish. Average.

On tap at the Great Lost Bear. Clear brown color with an aroma of malt and brown sugar. Ordinary flavor of malt and brown sugar with a bitter finish. Light to medium body with soft carbonation.

On draught at the Great Lost Bear, 5/21/2005 with Muzzlehatch. Moderately dark brown/mahogany with some reddish-copper tinges, small off-white head, recedes to ring quickly, no lacing. Very odd aroma of glue, rubber, wool, chocolate and freshly varnished wood, or maybe it’s all just toasted almonds and I’m crazy. As Barry points out, I said it tasted like "dry shag carpet" and frankly I’m baffled, so sorry for not being able to explain, Barry. Anyways, the body was medium, rather watery, low carbonation, with light chocolate/toffee notes, bits of vinousness and more of that odd coffee and glue and nuts. Must be the yeast. . .Really strange take on a really vague "style" from a really strange brewer. I think I kept having sips from Barry’s glass more out of curiousity than from actual enjoyment.

Draught pint sampled at Great Lost Bear in Portland ME with the illuminating and ruminating ClarkVV. Hazy-dirty nearly opaque brown with a bit of creamy head...some dried wood in the nose and a bit of caramel, fairly weak and simple on the whole...sugary-sweet body (Clark said "dry shaggy carpet" and I have no idea what he meant, please explain now when sober) bit of acidic grapiness, burnt brown sugar and marmalade. Not awful, I guess.

From a 64oz growler, sampled the day it was poured. Pours a dark amber witha light tan head. Smells of sweet malt and a bit nutty. Tastes of caramel and sweet malt. Nutty and smoky. Has a light hoppy finish. Medium bodied beer. Nice drinkable brown ale. Steve sure likes his brews bold and malty.

Bought in a country store about 20 miles north of Wiscasset -- it came in a nice 1/2 gallon jug, which was sufficiently attractive to keep in its own right. Very nice, servicable, fresh ale. Try it if you run across it.