Sprecher Pipers Scotch Ale

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

Thanks to Degarth for this one. First of all, this is a very rauchy scotch ale, let’s get that out of the way right off the bat, and I didn’t get any green apples out of this. Pours turbid brown with 1-finger khaki head. Aroma of caramel malt, brown sugar, hops, black pepper. Tastes caramel malty, with some brown sugar, rauchy mid-palate flavors, and finishing vinous fruit, like grapes over a campfire. The palate is complex and dense. This one stays rauchy through the finish, and acquires a pruney element, with more finishing hops. I’d love another one (or 6) of these! Rauchbier fans, let’s line up and get ya some, and get some for your smokin’ sister, too!

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of finely sized light tan colored bubbles that was mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent typically carbonated brown colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was brown malt. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of malt and caramel. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Dark amber. Roasted malts, caramel, light chocolate and red berries in the smooth aroma. Nuts, fudge and caramel in flavour with traces of smoke and brown sugar. Nuts and caramel in the aftertaste. Well-hidden alcohol.

Bottled. Orange/dark nutty brown colour, off-white head. Aroma is leather, malts and a bit hops. Flavour is quite the same with also some nuts in it. A lot like Orkney’s Skull splitter in my opinion.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2006) Amber, offwhite head. Roasted aroma, almost a bit smoked, malty and fruity with some nutty notes. Malty and nutty flavor, some butter. Strong but smooth and with a pleasant finish.

[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] Clear dark amber. Fruits and peat hits my nose heavy at first contact. Fairly sweet with some green apples and near full body. Lots of malt in here, and the mouthfeel is gracefully soft, but green apples disturbs.

The aroma is earthy with smoke (peat), toasted malt, caramel, and fruity. The appearance is orange/red/brown with a small but foamy head. The flavor is like the aroma with the peat making itself known along with a very sweet malt. The palate is somewhat smooth but a little thin. I like this one.

Mighty Impressive, I do enjoy a Rich malty beer with a strong flavor and AC content. Malts is taste of caramel and syrup. Slight smoke taste fill after with a after taste of coffee. Quite smooth too