A beautiful mellow ale highly recommended. Resounding 9% alcohol thrust provides sweet caramel-burnt Scotch warmth enhancing black chocolate-toffee eruption to rich fig-prune depth. Barley-hop bed secures mocha, praline, and pecan illusions to imperious smooth whiskey finish.

Brewers since 1719, Belhaven offers subtly charming ales, but this one’s somewhat bland for frothy mocha-scented Scottish-styled Ale. Moderately bitter hop herbage grazes pithy roasted malts and peaty dewiness. But polite earthen grain finish diminishes quickly, smoked nuttiness fades and ripe berry nuances scatter.

Smooth buttery caramel malt sweetness and dry powdered chocolate variance inform fine light-to-medium-bodied Scottish ale.

Poured into the glass, this 6.5% alcohol-fueled Wee Heavy maintains a fuzzy head and creamy body. Peculiar mocha-grained brown-sugared raisin murk thickened by buttery caramel malt residue before bourbon-port finish flutters away.

Musty medium-bodied amber-toned Scottie barely overcomes nebulous nature. Fizzy chocolate malt graze, scattered floral-fruited spicing and resinous hop plod lead to uninterestingly slim peat-grained finish, becoming sulfuric. Brewer’s best selling flagship beer is strictly for lunkheads.

Spice-hopped wheat chaff essence of tangy-fruited medium body levels off to pervasive nutty bitterness juxtaposing candied caramel sweetness. Toasted malts inform spruce finish as smoky grain-peat influence swells. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Watery light-bodied Scottish Ale brings harvested wheat and raw oats to vegetal opening. Phenol hops create vapid acidic acridity, shrinking tea-like midst, tart fig meander, oily pecan-walnut roast, and fungi-like mushroom chasm.

Pleasant tobacco leaf opening absorbed by sour coffee beans, syrupy molasses malts, and dried fig-raisin confluence of prune-hued dark ale. Debonair spiced hop sentiment quells baker’s chocolate bitterness, rye-pumpernickel braze, and honeyed pecan-hazelnut glaze. Too tamely turbid for heavyweight Scottish class, yet wholly satisfied.

Sweet iced tea entry gives way to fleeting wood-burnt barleywine elegance, impacting prune-soured sugar plum finish. Despite ‘red’ labeling, perhaps inspired by hop-spiced fruiting and toasted barley malting, resembles less nutty brown ale.

Wild jester collage on bottle’s label perhaps inspired by beat poet Hunter S. Thompson’s ancient Celtic axiom. Though dark brown-hued, this is a light, unassuming ‘also ran.’ A bit nutty with pleasurable butterscotch snuggling spring water freshness, though lacking discernible character. Later brewed by Denver’s Flying Dog. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Canned ruby-garnet wee heavy Scottish ale adroitly adjoins ashen butterscotch-mocha-chocolate sweetness to wheat biscuit spine. Dried tobacco, earthy peat, and leather linger beneath smoked maple midst. Roasted barley and rolled oats fortify veritable toasted lager-like finish. Alcohol insurgency impels charming barleywine recess.

Silky smooth copper-toned eggshell-headed “80 shilling” nitro-injected bottled draught offers visually exciting sheets of cascading froth and boasts soothing peat-smoked whiskey-rye setting. Tender nuttiness, herbal tea jot, and beautiful water texture enhance buttery barleymalt aridity.