Sprecher Pipers Scotch Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Tasted at http://www.ratebeer.com/events-detail.asp?eventID= with DenverLogan, and Quaff members. Light brown color. Buttery caramel aroma that I love. Was told comes from 90 minute boils that caramelize the malt. The flavor was a bit watery.

Bottle... Clear amber ale with ruby highlights and a small, fizzy, beige head. The earthy, vinous aroma offers up buttery diacetyl and caramel along with more subtle notes of smoked malt, lactic acid, brown sugar, cinnamon and sweet, red, dessert wine. Beefy flavor with sweet praline and a helping of tawny port. Carefully hopped to embrace and preserve this malty style’s sweetness while providing just enough bitterness to prevent cloying. Oddly, I’m picking up no chocolate. Medium to full-bodied with a lightly creamy mouthfeel and prickly carbonation. Rich, caramelly finish. Better than expected!

Pours a dark hazy amber with a medium off white head. Aroma is malts, light smoke, a weird plastic or cardboard type smell. Flavor is bitter grassiness, malts, oak, and ashy smoke. Maybe some hints of fruits. Not bad but nothing special.

Cloudy chocolate with weak head / Smokey nose / Light body, with smoke overpowering other flavors / Weak finish. Awkward.

16 ounce bottle. Pint glass. Mahogany with little or no head. Aroma was roast malt and smoke. Flavor was dominated by a smokey quality with notes of sweet malt and caramel. There was some alcohol bite as it warmed.

16oz. Bottle $7.49 4-Pack Binny’s Orland Pipers Scoth ale pours garnet into my pint glass with a minimal head that drops to a ring around the glass in no time. Mahogany hues when held toward the light. The body looks good but the lack of head hurts appearence. Smell comes across with toasted malts and a decent amount of smokiness. Maybe it’s in my mind but I detect peat moss as well.Mild aromas of caramel and a hint of vanilla are in there too. Smells good. Taste is much the same as the flavor. Toasted malts are the backbone of this beer. Theres a mildly sweet caramel malt present along with a slight metallic character. Some sweetened smoke comes along mid-palate and lingers throughout the finish. Good flavor. The body of this beer is very thin. Too thin to make the flavors as enjoyable as they could be. There’s a very small amount of creaminess in the finish but it’s just not enough. I could drink two of these in a sitting but that would be it. Just a little too bland to drink more. I could see this being a good beer if the mouthfeel was tweaked around a little bit. Way too thin. Besides that it’s a solid beer. 3/16/07

Pours a cloudy brown with a off white head. Aroma was strong with fruits and caramel. Tasted sweet with a nice alcohol sting as well. Hints of caramel and malt in the finish.

This has a chestnut body , highlighted in red, and has a creamy ecru head. It smells sweet with toffee and juicy fruits. Nice full body and creamy on the tongue. It tastes of toffee & caramel with light juicy fruits and a hint of smoke. Straightforward and tasty, a good representation of the style.

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