Stoudts Scotch Style Ale

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Scotch Ale
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

Draft at BT. Pours a dark redish brune body with very minute tan head. Sweet vinous with minerals. Light toasted malts. A light smoky character, with a light woodiness and peat as well. Chewy dark fruit and tobacco. A dry woody finish.

Courtesy PhillyBeer2112. Pours a reddsih brown color with a small, cream colored head. The aroma shows notes of dark fruit, caramel malts, chocolate, a hint of smoked peat. It has that typical scotch ale smell. The flavor follows suit with the caramel and chocolate kciking things off with some dark fruit on there also. There wasn’t much with hops at all. Medium bodied and smooth with a just a bit of carbonation leading to a sweet finish. The flavor seemed pretty subdued probably due to the age on this one. Still a pretty solid scotch ale though.

Courtesy PhillyBeer2112. A lightly hazy, reddish amber body is crowned by a small, foamy, cream colored head. Sticky spots of lacing cling to the glass. Aromatics include peat smoked caramel malts, chocolate, and hints of molasses and soy sauce. The same smoky caramel kicks off the flavor, with chocolate emerging as a more prominent force. Very little going on in terms of hop bitterness, though the peaty smoke lends a touch of earthiness and balance. Medium bodied and lightly carbonated, I get the feeling that this one is just a touch long in the tooth, yet still quite enjoyable. Overall, a pretty solid Scotch ale.

Bottle @ ORL throwdown, courtesy of PhillyBeer2112. Maroon/brown body with a small tan head, fades to a ring around the glass pretty fast. Aroma of smoke and dark rich malts. Very sweet and malty plus touches of smoke in flavor as well. Med body with subdued carb.

Courtesy PhillBeer2112. Pours a dark maroon, with a small off white head. Smells of sweet dark fruits, and some caramel malt. Smells like most typical scotch ales Ive had. The flavor was very sweet, very fruity. The taste seemingly has deadened a bit, due to age obviously, but still was quite good and decently complex. Very fruity all the way around and the alcohol was masked nicely, giving it a smooth texture.

Purple in color with a staying head. Nice sharp malt nose. Very thick mouthfeel but not a ton of depth in flavor. Sorta grapey.

Bottle.

Something was wrong with the mushroom-cap cork on this one (later inspection showed it dried out, hard, horribly compacted.). I couldn’t remove it by hand, and so I turned to my trusty "rabbit" wine opener. It broke the rabbit, snapping the screw ("worm") right off. So grabbed another opener, and got to work. After some struggle....the bottle shattered into dozens of pieces in my hands, spraying beer and glass everywhere. A nice sweet caramel-malty aroma mingled with my curses and my wife’s accusations of idiocy; whispers of smoke and a ever-so-gently sour twist filled my nose as I scrambled to get to the bigger shards of glass before my one-year-old son decided to sample them. The beer pours a murky brown. No sign of glass shards so what the heck: dark caramel lays across an earthy body, the smoke again, dried stone-fruit. Mouthfeel...well, I was too busy probing the inside of my mouth for slivers of glass in each sip to really savor that. But I suspect that would have been quite nice as well under better circumstances. I’d like to try to this one again at some point.

750ml Bottle: Sweet aroma. Smells of dark fruits, wood, peat, chocolate, and a bit of alcohol. Poured dark red/brown in color with a large, dense, khaki head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Lightly sweet flavor. Tastes of peat, smoke, dark malts, chocolate, bourbon, caramel, and wheat bread. Medium to full body. Dry texture. Soft carbonation. Woody, smoky, dry finish.