Anders37 (30296) reviewed Oatmeal Porter from Highland Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Thanks to Secret Santa! Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocoalte aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolae finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Clear pale gold body with a tall white head that settles quickly. Spicy hop aroma with some malt beneath. Light hop bitterness in the flavor. Light bodied, refreshing but not overly complicated.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Gaelic Ale from Highland Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Gaelic Ale is good, if boring, beer. Not that there’s generally much to get excited about from amber ales, but Gaelic provides a comforting familiarity in its malty depth; it tastes like the first time you went to a brewpub and tried a CRAFT BEER and found something you liked and could latch onto. It tastes like what good beer tasted like when you first figured out what bad beer tasted like. Gaelic is inoffensive, slightly sweet, slightly hoppy, better on tap than out of the bottle, but worthy of the occasional six-pack to share with non-beer geeks.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is malty and slight toasted caramelish. Bitter, light toasted malty and slight caramelish. Bitter and dry malty finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
cloudy orange, small white head. faint aroma, faint malts, faint hops. flavor is sweet malty, flowery, sort of fresh fruity faint note.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of sincereNC. Clear pale amber with a rough off-white head. Sweet malty nose, a very clean maltiness. Medium body, intensely malty sweet but never sticky. A little flowery hops but hardly any bitterness. Nice and close to style. 150311
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
22 oz bottle from my winter 2010 Secret Santa. Pour is mostly clear amber brown with a thick, well formed teo inch ran head. Long lasting head retention, eventually falls with nice lacing. Aroma is dusty caramel malt, round and pretty sweet. Taste is the sweet malt up fruit, though it tastes like sugar coated nuts, along with a vanilla sharpness. Behind this is a spiced yeastiness that closes out the finish, which also reveals some milky creaminess. Not sure how well all of these flavors work together. Palate is medium bodied, coats the mouth a bit, then dries out. It’s interesting, but not entirely my cup of beer. Thanks for all of these beers Santa, they have been fun to try.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to bobertkuekn. Pours black. Tan head. Nose of roast chocolate malt, black coffee, caramel malt and vanilla. Taste of burnt chocolate malt, coffee, light peat and ash.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A golden blonde saison with a thin white head. In aroma, frankincense, mandarine pulp and lightly sulfurly notes, a bit bizarre. In mouth, a smooth saison with cardamom notes, fragrant ashes, very interesting. On tap at Brewvival, Feb. 26 2011.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Little Hump from Highland Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Not a bad pale ale, just a rather wimpy one. The hops are nice, giving Little Hump a citric/herbal nose, but their only role in the flavor is the bitter finish. The grainy malts make up the heart of the beer, yet they come off European, making this beer taste much more like a hearty pilsner or a golden bock than a pale ale. Weird but worth a shot.