Shoreline Beltaine Scottish Ale

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

@Indiana Beerfest-on tap-pours a thin tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is medium malt-(caramel?), tangerine-dark fruit. Taste is medium malt-(caramel?), tangerine-dark fruit, secondary coppery hops. Towards a Scottish DB.

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.

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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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.

Draught sample at the brewpub, June 19 2007. Dark unclear maple body with a hint of lasting head....a bit of prune and maple in the nose, a suggestion of plum pudding, quite pleasant though fairly simple....moderately sweet body with a sour apple undertone, touches of caramel malt at the front, becoming mostly dry and fairly bitter with heavily toasty/burnt qualities....low carbonation, very drinkable though a touch watery like many of the beers I sampled.

1st batch on tap: Coppery hue with a small fading head and some lace. The aroma has notes of currant and spice apple, earthy and caramel malts and some peppery esters. The taste has a sweet malt beginning with an earthy dryness on the finish. Some subdued spice and flowery components as well. Needs a major increase in caramel and alcohol IMO. The feel is dry and smooth, watery for style. An entry level Scottish Ale with not much depth but enjoyable enough.

This draft brew from the brewery poured a very small sized head of fine to medium sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent uncarbonated dark copper brown colored body and a poor lacing. The weak aroma was malty. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of malt mild hops and mild brown malt.

On tap at Shoreline Brewery. Small tan head, transparent reddish orange body, no carbonation noted, and a good amount of lacing. The aroma was malty, hints of caramel and lightly bready. The flavor mimicked the aroma. The mouthfeel was smooth and this beer is medium bodied. A very easy to drink Scottish Ale, but lacked character and thus was just an okay beer for the style.