Smuttynose Scotch Style Ale

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Pours mildly fogy with a minimal dark crème head. Nose is nice. Noticeable malt presence with some almost burnt leaves there as well. Sweet tones lie in the back. Flavor is super peat! It’s just like peat all up in my mouth *makes motions with fingers in front of mouth*. In no way is it overdone. Full and consistent. Feel is full with carbonation and well bodied on the liquid. Nice to drink. A bit too much going on here to go far beyond large sips. But it’s still pretty darn good.

22oz bottle poured a deep brown and ruby color with an off white head that dissipates to a ring around the glass. Aroma is nothing but a sweet smell and a whole lot of smoke. Toffee, caramel, and a light coffee flavor dominate the taste. There is smoke flavor is very aggressive. The closest thing I put my finger on for the smoke is sitting by a campfire and tasting the smoke. Mouthfeel leave a stickiness in my mouth. Not bad, but a bit much on the smoke in my opinion.

22 oz bottle. Amber/dark orange with bubbly head. Aroma musty, blue cheese, wet fur. Flavor semi-sweet, metallic, tar, brown sugar, molasses, caramel. Smokey peat in brewer’s description is quite noticeable. Finishes slightly sour. Mouth feel is liqueur-like.

22 oz bomber. Pours a dark muddy amber caramel with a medium bubble laced beige head. Aroma of malt, burnt sugar, beef jerky and smoke. Taste of beef jerky, malt and liquid smoke. A bit of a letdown from Smuttynose.

Bomber. Clear orange/copper color with a medium head. Aroma practically screams PEAT; big, smoky peat with bready malts and earth. Dry and smoky taste. Incredibly dry compared to most other Scotch’s.

bottle thanks to andrew.....pours a semi-transparent amber brown with a frothy white head....nose was made up of malts and dark fruit. no peaty smoke for me as far as the nose is concerned....flavor consisted of a lot of sweet malt with some hoppy bitterness/spiciness in the finish. the sweetness takes over the bitterness as the beer warms and some smoke comes into play a little bit more.

was fairly unimpressed here, i didn’t get much of the peat smoke some people have noticed. A bit too sweet and generally ho-hum. perhaps a bad bottle?

22 oz bottle - pours a ruddy amber light bubbly foam. Aroma of wet leather and peat smoke. Flavor initially hints at sweet malt with a wisp of caramel/toffee that gets steamrolled by the peat smoke, peat and more peat. As the beer warms, some of the peat smoke subsides but still remains a dominant flavor. Mouthfeel is spot on, medium/medium heavy palate.