Bert Grant's Scottish Style Ale
Grant’s Scottish Style Ale is a full-bodied brew crafted from pale and caramel barley malts for authentic Scottish flavor. Then seasoned with Cascade hops from the Pacific Northwest’s Yakima Valley for pure American character.
3.1
214 reviews
Yakima, United States
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Grant’s Scottish Ale pours to a deep amber color with a creamy off white head, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is wonderful with lots of good sweet caramel malt aromas, and fresh, citric hop aromatics. The palate is firm with more good sweet and caramel malt flavors paired with some nice touches of estery fruit. The body is very soft and comforting on the tongue. Grant’s Scottish finishes with more caramel malt flavors up front, then ends with a good bit of citric hop character that slightly lingers.
This is a well done beer with lots of good malt and good hop flavors and aromas. Stylistically, it isn’t the most accurate version of Scottish Ale, but the beauty of this beer is Bert Grant never intended it to be. There is always room for a brewer to be creative, styles to Bert were but mere guidelines, they were not etched in stone. If there is one thing Bert Grant taught the beer world, he taught us that. The memory of Bert Grant will live through his beers, full of character, and just a little out of the ordinary. This is a great beer, and one that matches well with hearty dishes, and desert. I would pair this beer with a hearty beef stew, or perhaps chocolate layer cake and vanilla ice cream.
Nice gold red body with a quickly dissipating white head. Heavy malts and hints of peet that really bring one to Scotland. An average Scottish Ale.
From a locals trade with Degarth. Thanks Joe! Pours amber with a thin white head. Aroma is like vegetable juice. Tomatoes, green beans (yes I’m laughing here) and corn. OK, so it’s vegetable soup. That’s exactly it. Vegetable soup. Flavor is so bland it’s difficult to detect anything. I suppose it’s good when you’re sick to eat your vegetable soup, but for a beer, well, that ain’t so good.
Tasted in 1994! Based on notes from then. Golden-orange, almost light-copper, very clear. Low carbonatiuon, small head. Malt, butterscotch aromas predominate. The beer seems good until you taste it. Then, starting out light and malty, slightly watery, it finishes sharp and farily bitter, far too bitter for the style. Lowest rating of the 9 Scottish ales we tasted.
The aroma seems to have caramel along with vegetables and things like corn and rice in it. Not something I expect in this style. However the hops smell very nice. The appearance is amber with a small head. The flavor is not the best. There is some malt and herbs but the vegetables in the aroma seem to come through in the taste as well. The palate is thin and the finish is bitter. This is a disappointment.
Pours a nice hazy orange. Aromas of caramel, hint of fruit and hops. Nice creamy malt taste with a nice hop bitterness.
Dark Orange Coloring with White Head. Very Light and Dry Malty Character. Some Dried Fruit...Simple and Rugged Character.
[bottle - 12 oz] Clear orange pour. No head. Very little carbonation. Malts and vegetables abound on the aroma. The flavor begins with a bitter bite, then a flavor of boiled vegetables and a very bitter finish. Thin-bodied and biting on the tongue. I thought this would be a Scotch Ale.
My shit certainly wasn’t glowing read like in this picture above, but it sure was fizzy! I had some yeasty bidnuz hang outon the side erupting some serious bubbles like one of those deep sea vents spewing hot water. Kinda average taste, so don’t expect much pondering over this one. An easy pounder, malts and some faint murky hops and some caramel.
Amber color with no head. Aroma was hard to pin down, but almost smelled fruity. Taste was very much heavy and muddled fruit with a slight malt background. I’m glad to see this listed as an Amber Ale because it certainly did not strike me as Scottish at all, but still tasty.
A cool night in western Kentucky. the wind blows by and causes the windchime to tone a mourning sound. the sun has barely set, there is not enough light to make out my uncle’s work garage 20 yards away as i lift this hazed orange pour that had a thick head, but settled to a grey ring to my nose. i detect a sugared candy orange slice of the Brach’s variety and some overly sweetend tea. i think back to why i am here. a new satrt to a life i have screwed up and i taste this beer. it is meaty with a cotton candy flavor and something smokey like a pile of charcoal doused with water when the party is over. i am really digging on the sweetness when i notice the strong grapefruit and oak finish. nothing like trying to get into a bit of self analysis with a beer. there is some underlying strawberry to this too. i just finished a very shitty day, yet i still can’t knock this beer and i was prepared to. wow, there is a lot of grapefruit to this.
12 oz bottle. Pours a beatiful red amber with a thin white head that left only a ring of lace. A nice floral aroma with a citrus component as well. Flavor is very malty and the hop character is very subdued. I can just make out the Cascade hops in the bitter aftertaste. Not terrible but not great either.
Pours amber with a decent off white head. Smells of copper pennies and nutty with some nice rosey notes. Tastes of grapefruit, rose hips and grass with a mild bitter finish.
Has an amber color and a light brown head. The aroma is of a light floral essence with malt in the background. Light on the palate, the taste has some hoppiness to it but does not predominate.
Caramel and malt aroma. Tan with hints of red in the color and a smallish head. Decent flavor profile. malt and caramel again are the the only standouts, but it does taste good. Decent mouthfeel as well. Not exactly to style, but good even though one dimensional.
Does not fit the category very well. Should be much stronger and probably darker. Drinkable, though.
I liked this better than ohters did. Still most Scottish Ales blow this away. I think Amber Ale is a more accurite description. After all this does not taste like Robert the Bruce.
Orange red amber hue, thin white lacing of head. Malt and caramel aromatics. Slightly peaty malt characters combine with a grassy hop note. Mouthfeel is fairly watery.
I too was hoping for more with this beer. The only other beer I have had from Grants was the Perfect Porter, which was fairly good. This was a much weaker offering, with a metallic astringency from the hops that I didnt like. I’m a fan of quality scotch ales, and these "scottish style" ales always seem to fall short. Its drinkable but not something I would want to buy again at $8.29 a sixer.
Not what I was hoping for - to call this a Scottish style ale is quite misleading. Pours light reddish brown, very little body. Flavor is good but lacks the depth and richness you would expect from a Scotch. If it was presented to me as an Amber I would have pronounced it outstanding, but as a Scotch it’s disappointing.
***addendum
After drinking a sixer of these over the course of a week I had to lower the score. I must have been high when I first said it was outstanding for an amber. It’s thin, the flavors are there but weirdly elusive...it’s not terrible, but it’s definitely below average.
Poured a nice red/brown. Aroma on caramel and malts and hops. Taste is the same with a bit more hops. This was ok.
Pours red amber color. Tan head but not too much. Malt aroma a little caramel comes through. A little bit of hops in the aroma. The flavor is mostly malt a little caramel and just a touch of citrus. Not a whole lot of body to this. It was just average not too exciting.
I was very excited when I saw this, considering that Bert Grant is a fine brewing establishment, I was a somewhat dissapointed
Nice aroma, follow by a strong presence of malt and a subtle string of spice.
Other beers of this style are better though
has a kind of sweet, smoky, caramel sensation. Definately not ’d bomb’ but if its cheap worth the buy if you’ve got a try.
Bottle. Poured a reddish brown color with a medium tan head. Aroma was solid with tones of sweet and bitter malts. Flavor was complex with the malt and hops that lasted with strong finish. The third best brew from this house.
A nice overall scottish export. It does border closely to an amber ale, and honestly amber ale is a good clasification for this. moderate to deep amber and clear with a very slight head and low carbonation as is standard for all Grants ales. Aroma is malty with caramel and just a hint of citrusy hops. Good flavor of dark malt and hops with a sligth astringensy in the end. I wouldnt consider this to be "full bodied". No peat or roasted character.
Deep crisp amber with a lump of foam in the middle of the glass. Interesting light cascade scent for the style. Would be a fairly typical Montana/Idaho Amber except for the cascade hops which raise the flavour above the standard vanilla Amber. Becomes more enjoyable as the glass empties. I wouldn’t mind another.
Bottle pours translucent amber, medium sized white foamy head, soft carbonation, with fairly sticky lacing. Grains and overcooked vegetables on the nose. More graininess, malts, and a slight astringent metallic taste. Damn, that crap lingers... ugh. Medium bodied, with a medium to thin mouthfeel. Finishes... ah who cares... This beer had to be better at one point.
Poured a nice looking clear amber with a good thick head a heavy lacing.
Aroma of malt witha hops background.
Flavor is good, malt, spice, maybe a little hops.
Has a metalic flavor on the palate.
It’s scottish and it is crap.
Grainy, slightly malty smell.
It tastes hoppy and acidic. Could have been a litlle maltier/sweeter to cut out that nastiness.
Maybe i’m being too harsh. It’s not undrinkable. Like others have stated, it really doesnt resemble a classic Scottish Ale, but I cant stand that stuff anyway. So maybe this is a good scottish ale, but a bad beer.