Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

dark mahogany color with a medium sized tan head. The aroma if fruity and hoppy. The flavor is bitter floral hops with molasses, ripe fruity and dry chocolate. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brewing Ol' Red Cease & Desist Scottish Ale on 05 Mar 2006 at 22:54 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: I am not a big fan of this brewer and this is the first time I have had this beer. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark mahogany color with a medium sized tan head. The aroma if fruity and hoppy. The flavor is bitter floral hops with molasses, ripe fruity and dry chocolate. Despite the strong hops this beer has a rather "Belgian" character to it. It hides the 9.3% alcohol quite well.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Amber, copper in color. Not much head. Taste is strong alcohol, with caramel, no hops. Aroma is alcohol, caramel, candy corn.

Just a little boozy, right amount for the ABV. Solid scotch ale.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into snifter; no bottle dating, but has a bottle manufacture code of 8/31/2014. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep ruby red, light copper/brown color with a small fairly dense cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big raisin, plum, cherry, fig, date, pear, apricot, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, peat smoke, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big raisin, plum, cherry, fig, date, pear, apricot, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, peat smoke, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Mild herbal/grassy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark fruit, cherry, pear, apricot, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, leather, tobacco, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying sweetness after the finish. Minimal dryness. Light-medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is good. Pretty thin for the ABV, but not bad. Minimal warming alcohol for 10.1%. Overall this is a nice scotch ale. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV. This had some nice well rounded yeast/malt complexity and balance between the two. Just not as richly flavorful and full bodied as it should have been for the style. A nicely enjoyable offering, and good style example otherwise.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours cloudy brown with a fleeting off-white head. Very light toffee aroma. The flavor is light honey, caramel and toast. Light bodied. This needs more malt flavor.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 12fl.oz.Light unclear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, oxidide. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120419]