Highland Games Ale
Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.29
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Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottled. A dark amber beer with a fast disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of brettanomyces, smoke, fruit, and wood. The flavor is sweet with notes of smoke, brettanomyces, fruit, and wood, leading to a dry finish. Had it blind - my guess on a style was a thin smoked Flemmish sour - hmmm. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
KimLundJohansen (10465) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy brown with tiny off white head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt and smoke. Sweet and mild sourish flavor with roasted malt, caramel and smoke.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 473ml. @ Amerikaner blindsmagning @ Papsoe, Bottle #19.]Unclear with medium size particles and a medium red brown color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lancing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, berry acidic, oak, light smokey. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. (190608)
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 47,3 cl) Courtesy of Degarth. Pours an almost clear orangey brown with a small off-white head. Lightly tart nose with a whiff of smoke. Medium body with lightly burned malt, peaty smoked accents and an underlying acidity. Dry and lightly tart finish. 190608
yespr (55501) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Papsoes MadsBerg homecoming blindtasting, bottle #19. Pours hazy dark brown with an orange glare and a lacing white head. Dry smoked aroma with a mild dry woody brett note. Flavour is mild smoked and dry malt. Holds dry brett to this. Has a rather thin body despite all these strange flavours going on. Ends dry and light citric with a declining smoke flavour.
notalush (7339) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle from santa - dark brown pour, with substantial tan lace - very peaty, smokey, almost tobacco-like aroma, with a big leathery smell that I’m not sure I’m liking, and every few sniffs I’m greeted with wet ash, like a glass of water with dozens of cigarette butts floating in it - pretty tart up front for a porter, with only a light roasted malt quality - the smoke flavor is very off-putting at first, tasting less like smoked malt and more like burnt rubber, but once your palate adjusts it’s not quite so vile - however, the beer never quite loses that "stack of old tires set ablaze" kind of quality - I would pass on this one.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Highland Games Ale from Dunedin Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured dark darkest amber with tall tan head. Main aroma is the smokiness and there seems to be a touch of malt aroma too. The main flavor comes from the smokiness. The other flavors are rather subtle. There is a hint of grain malt in the beginning. Then the malt flavor starts to shift sweeter and more pronounced all the way to the finish. Hops are even less apparent than the malts behind the main flavor element, smoke. Nice tasting smoke ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks to Matta for sending this in a fine trade!!! The games comes on with a huge head of off white foam that settles in for the duration. Almost instantly the heavy smoke aroma hits your nose. With care you can detect some toffee and toast but the smoke dominates the aroma and flavor as well. This is an interesting beer that is a nice change from the usual. A good winter sipper if you like a smoke beer once in a while.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours dark brown with amber tones, and a full head. Rich candyish aroma seems one-dimensional. Wonderful peated malt flavor backed by full malt sweetness that is almost bockish. Med bitter finish was well balanced. A great Scottish Ale. Draft version@Redlight. Smoky pipe tobacco nose with hints of vanilla and vinous fruit. A funky berry like fruit stands out in the flavor. Touches of smoke and metallic in the finish, which is dry and otherwise lacking alot. Rating represents a blend of the bottling and draft. The bottling was a bit better.