Arcadia Loch Down
Our tribute to the Scottish-Highlands, this beer offers a gorgeous garnet color joined by the aroma of ripe plums and freshly-baked biscuits. The rich, full-bodied texture reveals notes of roasted chestnuts and caramel in the smooth single-malt style brew. Balanced with just the right amount of hop character, this beer delights with crisp alcohol finish.
3.3
461 reviews
, United States
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Draft. Aroma: Weak, hint of alcohol, a little sweet. App: Dark redish brown, thin long lasting head. Taste: Bready, roasted, hint of alcohol burn. Palate: Good body, medium finish. Over: Fairly good, couldn’t drink much
Deep hazy dark copper hue with a ivory cap. Earthy toffee and boozy musty tones. Yummy sweet earthy bready malt flavors with a kiss of moss and dark malty Scotch tones. Smooth and nutty and earthy boozy sweet. Nice.
From a bottle into pint glass. Nice one finger light brown head that sticks around for a while, dark brown beer with some light coming through on the edges. Brown sugar, yeast, caramelized sugars. Medium to high carbonation, sweet, medium body, hint of bitterness. Long finish of sweet brown sugar with a hint of burnt toast.
appearance: clear copper, short creamy light beige head, minimal lacing. aroma: toffee, treacle, caramel, hint of wood, smoke, and toasted nuts. taste: malty sweet, with caramel and toffee, light vanilla, some smoke and a bit of root beer. finish: smooth, lingering toffee sweetness with a hint of alcohol; full palate. notes: Not a bad scotch ale. Decent palate. Good flavors. Bottle from the Rare Beer Club.
Bottled. Pours brown with malty boozy aroma. Caramel and malt with quite present alcohol. A bit thin and cool taste.
Dark reddish brown beer with a thin creamy tan head. Nose of cocoa, chestnuts, and toasted brown bread. Flavor is more potent than the aroma with roasted dark grain, unsweetened dark chocolate, and bitter almonds finished with a toasty bitterness that lingers a bit, but becomes a bit acrid over time. Decent.
12 oz bottle. From the Arcadia Ales, Kalamazoo, MI.
Dark reddish brown color with a tiny tan head.
Sweet malt, mild hops, some farmyard and dryness in the aroma.
Sweet malt, alcohol, Coke, hops, bitterness and cough drops in the flavor. I don't like this much.
Aromas of caramel and toffee with some berries too. Taste is heavy on the caramel, toffee, vanilla cream, and berries.
Brown pour thin off white head. Aroma is sweet. Flavor is also sweet. Some caramel. Alcohol is masked.
Smells like caramel malt. Looks like Coke. Tastes like watery caramel malt. Feels like velvet water.
This is my favorite dark beer at the moment. It is ridiculously drinkable. Not too sweet, not heavy, not boozy or bitter. Just a little bit of all the right things and 8%ABV. Love it.
From tap. Pours dark brown, deep orange glare, small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, breadish and caramelish. Sweet, roasted, caramelish, breadish. Light bitter, sweet malty finish.
12 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 11/20/2015. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy dark reddish brown color with a 1 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, cocoa, raisin, plum, apple, light peat smoke/tobacco, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, cocoa, raisin, plum, apple, light peat smoke/tobacco, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, cocoa, light peat smoke/tobacco, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from hop/roasted notes as well. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and slightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice Scotch ale style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Bottle. Deep chestnut pour, medium foamy off-white head, okay lacing. Sort of a muted caramel, malty nose, like candy from the county fair. Mouth is where it earns its keep: medium sweet, chewy malt, maple sugar candy, raisins, dates, caramel, toasted pumpernickel, mild bitterness balances everything out. Not a homerun in all areas, but tastes delicious, which is what counts most.
12 oz. bottle served in a tumbler- poured a somewhat transparent black with a heavy tint of maroon when held to a light source. Various size frog eyes upon the liquid surface- no head, no ring. Aroma of peat, scotch, and hardwood nuts. Hits the mouth with a wide and hard body, malt is appropriate for the size and style, middle has some mass to it, finish has some plum, earth, and peat to it. Delightful to say the least.
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I poured it from the bottle into a glass. It pours a light brown color with a small tan head and little lacing. The aroma wasn’t very strong. It was caramel, nutty, and booze. The taste was nutty, caramel, and booze. It was creamy. It hid the alcohol well at first. As it warmed, it became much more pronounced.
Draft atvthe growler NYC. Dark brown color . Malty boozy taste but not much flavor. Not really a fan
Poured from bottle and everything just seemed ok to me. My go to scotch ale is Founders Dirty Bastard, and I'd rather have that than this. I'd drink this though if Founders wasn't available.
Poured into a perfect pint.
3.5 A: Lightly hazed deep amber brown color. One finger of frothy tan head. Retention is a tad below average and a thin ring of lacing is left.
3.5 S: Caramel, toffee, and peat right from the start. Then an almost mineral rustic outdoors. Sweet, yet manageable. Hints of tobacco, raisin, and dates.
3.5 T: Wow, there’s a lot of flavor in here. Big peat component with layers of caramel and toffee. More fruity than the nose with plum joining tobacco, raisin, and date. Mineral and a touch of metal. It’s not dry or sweet, but somewhere in the middle. Viscous neutral maltiness however.
3.5 M: Medium to heavier medium body. Good moderate carbonation with a little bite to it. Light creaminess with a little more chewiness.
3.5 D: Good enough all around. Give it a try if you haven’t already.
DavoleBomb, Jul 09, 2013
Bottle to glass, a muddy ruby color with an abundance of particles,very little off white head that left in a hurry.Good malt in the aroma, bread and caramel and slight raisin with low hop.Medium slick mouth with lively carbonation and a bitter finish,of average length with heavy sweetness.
12 oz. labeled 8% abv and bottled 10-31-2014. Pour is opaque chocolate-brown with a lasting film of creamy foam on top. Nose is earthy dried fig, dark toffee and red grapes. Taste is raisin, toffee, earthy peat and a hint of red wine. Medium-heavy body is smooth with medium carbonation and a nice balance.
Pours a cloudy dark reddish-brown with medium creamy tan head. Aromas of sweet sugary malt with some smoke, dark fruit and whiskey. Tastes of sweet malt, faint smoke and alcohol with some light hops in the finish. Medium bodied.
Every beer in this 6 pack was infected. No body left to the beer at all with a bunch of fruity notes. Horrible!! Not a wee heavy in any way. No one should ever buy a bottled beer from this company. This is the second 6 pack of a different beer that was infected. Over $20 and down the drain it went
I drank this at Rattle n Hum in NYC. Good dark beer. Good aroma and very good tasting beer .I'd order again.
Aroma dominated by the malt as one would expect in a Scotch Ale. However there are some interesting aromas most notably a fruity, plum flavor. Also bread and caramel. The hop aromas are quite subdued. The alcohol is fairly apparent.
The head is a fairly sparse and short lived off-white color. The beer is dark brown with some ruddy color to the brown.
Taste includes above average sweetness and mild bitterness.
Body is medium to full; texture seems a bit sticky or slick from the alcohol or sugar. Carbonation is average which works well with this beer. The finish is fairly long, sweet and malty.
Overall this is a pretty good Scotch Ale; I particularly like the fruity plum notes.
Tap at Ginger Man, Nyc. Dark nut brown color, small beige head. Caramel and dark fruits in the nose. Medium-bodied. A bit liquerish palate. Toffee, dark fruits, some berries. Certainly quite typical Scotch Ale, but simple one. Aftertaste is mostly alcohol with some caramel.
Pretty decent. Dark fruit flavors mixed with a slightly bitter mealtimes. Mild peaty flavor adds more depth to this one.
Poured from a bottle. Medium brown color, small off white head. Medium scotch malt aroma. Medium body with a sweet malt flavor with light bitter accents and a medium finish.
Aroma of fruit, malt and scotch, pours a clear brown color with no carbonation and no head. Pleasant taste of malt and scotch with a scotch malt finish.
Bottle from Binny’s in Bloomingdale, IL. Very dark brown pour with crimson highlights. Soapy head. Good looking pour. Rich malty aroma with plum and sweet toffee, and a hint of roast. Might be getting a bit of black licorice in the taste, along with nut. Nice beer overall.