Piper Down
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Scottish Ale Rotating|
Score
6.73
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Our Piper Down Scottish Ale hits all the right notes for the Ballast Point Bagpipe Corps that inspired it. We created this very low hopped, malty ale for the band to enjoy using UK Maris Otter malt, roasted barley, UK hops and low fermentation temperatures. Then we let the brew’s sweet complexity build over a three-hour boil. Full of roasted caramel flavor, it’s a pub classic with Ballast Point personality.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. A- Malty, cereal, subtle caramel. A- Dark garnet color, clear liquid, beige head. T- Malty, bread dough, caramel, cereal. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish. O- Not a favorite style and while this seemed well done, it still wasn’t too my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2016
at 20:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a rich leathery brown from a bottle. Don’t get me wrong, the aroma and flavor aren’t leathery. Just the color. The aroma is very slightly of caramel and toffee. Flavor is kind of like a very dry cream soda or something. But absolutely no leather. Good no-leather beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2016
at 22:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Aroma is caramel, light fruit. Appearance is mainly clear (light haze), reddish dark amber with consistent trace sparkle, fizzy ephemeral finger-width light brown head (like a soda) and no lacing. Taste is moderately sweet caramel, English hops. Palate is medium-to-full bodied with thick, sticky texture, average carbonation and mildly sweet caramel finish. Overall, a straightforward Scottish ale without tremendously bold aroma/taste--especially for the heavy palate--and a pour more resembling a soda. Kinda weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2016
at 20:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
tap - Pours dark amber with a slightly smoky, caramel malt aroma. It has a sweet caramel malt flavor with a hint of smoke. This is an enjoyable medium bodied beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jul 2016
at 10:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
22 fl oz bottle bought at the brewery. Clear bright copper in the glass, small light beige head. Fine malty nose. Taste starts malty, light toasted, caramell, some hop in the background. Low fruityness in the second row. Low bitterness in the aftertaste. That kind of easy to drink and enjoy it beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2016
at 23:51
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle (from firma bier). Pours dark brown with beige brownish head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, caramel, bread, malt. Flavor is sweet and bready, caramel, malt. Feels a bit like proper "strong" kvass, it has so nice malty breadiness. Overall: very nice beverage, i can session this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2016
at 15:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8.5
Kibble nose. Tea colored, clear, thick tan head, decent lace. Kibble, dried leaves. Fantastic treacle and coffee finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Really great take on the style, not cloying.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2016
at 19:52
6/10
Anfield.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2016
at 18:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a hazy amber red with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out bready malt, a touch of caramel and slight red berry fruitiness. Flavour is along the same lines, with bready malt, caramel and red fruits. The fruitiness is more pronounced than on the nose. Very well-balanced and dynamic for what is usually a boring style of beer. Great one.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jan 2016
at 00:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg. Appearance is deep ruby red, with a small beige head. Aroma of caramel, toasty malt, hop undertones. Taste- some chocolate, malts, becomes more bitter towards the finish with some hoppiness. Nice.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2015
at 05:49