Shoreline Beltaine Scottish Ale

Brewed by Shoreline Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Michigan City, Indiana USA

On tap. Pours clear brown color with a thin beige colored head. Aroma is fairly faint sweet malt, caramel, peat perhaps. Flavor is caramel malts, dried fruit, roasted nuts. Palate is thin and watery, mildly carbonated, finished sweet. My least favorite of the ones I tried.

This pours a deep chestnut body boldly hihlighted in shades of red with a negligible head. There’s a rich caramel sweetness to the node, also roasted nuts, and a suggestion of smoke. Smooth. Big malty flavors along with some pome fruits, wood, a suggestion of chocolate, and a bitter nut or three. Nice.

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Sampled from a growler on 9/30/06: Pours a clear dark brown with a thin, wispy tan head. Has a sweet and malty peaty aroma. Body starts sweet and dark caramely with a touch of milk chocolate. A well balanced and authentic brew.

On tap.
Pours a clear deep ruby/mahogany with tight, long-lasting off-white head. Aroma is caramel-sweet, nutty and dry-grain. Flavor isclean, nutty, lightly toaty, a dollop of rich malt sweeetness and a judicious spot of hop bitterness. A tiny bit of dried fruit makes a showing toward the end of the glass. Medium palate with a final showing from the hops as it goes down the throat. A well-rounded beer and the best of their lineup.

Draft at the brew pub. Clear orange-brown color with a thin off white head. Not a whole lot of aroma other than dried fruit. Tasted of dried fruit as well, especially cherry. No peat or smoky malt flavors that I could find as I sloshed the stuff over my tongue. Smooth mouth feel.

draft - Pours dark with a light malty aroma and a thin head. The flavor is very malty, but has a good hops balance as well. The body is on the thin side for the style and is lightly carbonated.

tap - I was a bit disappointed in this ’award winning’ Scottish ale. It presented itself with a deep amber hue with a thin light head that was quickly gone. Light scent of caramel. Thin but smooth on the palate. Had a nice lightly roasted malt taste, but not the fullness of flavor I would have liked.

Draft sample at brewery. Dark brown color with an average fizzy off-white head that diminished quickly with fair lacing. Moderate toasted caramel malt aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium toasted sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish with a moderate duration.