Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale
Monday Night Brewing in Atlanta, Georgia, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.24
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A roasty scotch ale with a hint of smoke. Full-bodied, but not overpowering. Smokey, but not in a creepy bar kind of way. Sweet, but not obnoxiously so. Sound like your ideal mother-in-law? Fair enough, but it also is a pretty dead-on description of our Scotch Ale. In a difficult hop-growing climate, Scottish brewers relied on other ingredients to impart flavor and bitterness – one such ingredient was smoked malt. Drafty Kilt is a dark, malty bombshell of a beer.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can. Nice deep brown color with a two finger slightly off white head. Taste and aroma were very pleasantly malty.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 06:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Monday Night Garage. Pours dark brown. Raisin, chocolate, biscuit, light smoke, little earthy. Medium body. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2022
at 22:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz can pours out cola brown topped with a sand head. Nose is caramel toffee toasted malts. Taste is more of the nice sweet grain toasted malts toffee and caramel.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2022
at 04:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12 oz. can. Pours a clear very dark ruby color with a beige head and very good retention. Very good lacing. Dark caramel aroma. Dark lager, caramel and light smoke flavors. Nice blend. The 7.2% ABV is well hidden. Smooth and clean finish. Heavy body.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2019
at 20:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Burger Theory in Atlanta. Brown with a creamy head. Aroma of peat, earth, caramel and toffee. Bittersweet sweet throughout with a bit of smoke underneath. Light warmth and alcohol at the finish. Big, full body. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jul 2019
at 12:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Dark cola colour, with a small tan head. Aroma of chocolate/caramel, hay, cinnamon. Taste is rich chocolate malt, caramel malt, cinnamon. Very malty.....quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2019
at 21:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Raisin, caramel malt, alcohol, and hay aroma. Dark brown with small head. Moderately sweet raisin, caramel malt, and moderately bitter herbal hay and alcohol flavor. Good body. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2018
at 19:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Tasty Scotch ale, sweet but not too sweet, peaty but not too peaty, smokey but...you get the point. Caramel and biscuity malts form a solid base, while slight fig and bourbon notes underline an appreciably firm hop bitterness on the finish, the slightest wisp of smoke adding depth to the fade. Not all that pretty, and the aroma comes across subdued, but otherwise a solid beer. Better than my score suggests.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2017
at 12:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampler from Growler USA. Black and full bodied, creamy. Dark fruit and caramel taste. Bittersweet malt finish.
Tried
from Growler
on 16 Mar 2017
at 20:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap@Boll Weevil, Augusta. Pitch black beer with a strong off white head. The aroma is gently coffee roasted, and the flavour is deeply roasted with plenty of bitterness and some molasses. Overall a nice strong ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Feb 2015
at 17:46