Farm Table: 80 Shilling
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

 

600ml bottle
4.7% ABV
Main/Bronte LCBO Outlet (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
February 29, 2016
$4.55
The beer pours a translucent shimmering copper colour with a creamy rocky light tan coloured head. Aroma is earthy hops, biscuity malt, and butterscotch. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with average carbonation. The flavour is cereal malt, some spices, and a nice bitter hop finish,

Misty dark amber thin head - aroma of dried fruit and caramel. Carries through into flavour wirh modest bitterness.

Pours a dark brown. Dark malts with caramel on the nose. Plenty of toasted caramel to taste. Very light on the hops and doesn't balance out in the end.

Bottled from brewery.

My second Beau of the evening and I thought I would try this since I am originally from Scotland. It pours a lovely copper colour and has a rich caramel and chocolate nose. The flavour is very similar to the aroma with a nice mouthfeel. In summary, a lovely beer. Something that could be enjoyed in the winter or fall......BUT.....this is another example of a North American attempt at a Scottish style that I know well where they fail to capture a real Scottish 80'/. There's just too much flavour here amd not of the right type. If they had called it a brown ale or a red ale it would have really stood out, but I was expecting (or hoping for, given previous American versions) a taste of home....and I didn't get it.

Still, a wonderful beer if you ignore the name.

 

 

 

 

600ml bottle poured into tulip 16/3/17

A clear amber liquid, finger of foam hangs around for a couple sips leaving no lace

S hard toffee, hazelnut, lots of dark bread, reminds me of a fruity nut bar with a little peat

T more of the same really, nutty, bready, faint hints of peat and fruit, just a hint of tobacco

M light bodied, bubbles fluff it up, slick in the mouth with some fruity peat lingering

O decent lightweight that hits the style fairly well, fairly mellow and drinkable

Light enough and has enough flavor to keep you from getting board but your not going to be blown away

 

 

 

 

 

600ml bottle (again, say whaaaat?), part of the only new brews to broach the Alberta market in the first week of the New Year 2017 - ballsy, or smart as a whip, these guys?

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some random disintegrating ice shelf lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of peaty smokiness, weak cafe-au-lait notes, some mild buttery nuttiness, plain earthy yeast, and very tame leafy, weedy, and dead grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a feeble (for the style) caramel sweetness, wet multigrain toast, oversteeped generic black tea, some subtle black orchard fruitiness, a wan earthy yeastiness, and more understated weedy, herbal and wet grassy green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly robust in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the bland malt 'character' carrying us through to a new day.

Overall, I gotta give these guys credit for nailing this historical style right on the button (including a more or less exact middle-range ABV), and not going overboard on the sweetness which is endemic therein. Nothing fancy to see here, just an easy (and wits-preserving) tipple, something I don't exactly associate with the Scots, especially with Burns' Night fast approaching.