Celtic New Year
Blue Lobster Brewing Company
- From:
- Blue Lobster Brewing Company
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 10.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 23, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 01, 2013
- Wants:
- 6
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
Lobster Genome Project .0 aged for 8 months in Arrington Port barrels.
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Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota
3.83/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Blue Lobster Celtic New Year Port BA Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy, 10% ABV. Batch 2013. Pours dark reddish brown, with half-finger beige head that left great lacing. Aroma is port wine. Taste is grapes, Some spice and caramel, slightly sweet, slightly bitter. The port overpowers. Mouthfeel is a bit thin, and carbonation is understandably light. Overall very good.
May 23, 2026
Reviewed by cosmicevan from New York
3.47/5 rDev -12.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -12.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
beer generously shared by evan12 at the southampton IRS release. enjoyed at the release and leftovers enjoyed at home from a blue lobster mini. notes a result of both impressions.
a - brew poured a fairly still muddy brown with not much on top. not all that attractive.
s - nose boasts scoatch ale toffee and a nice amount of seasoning spices.
t - taste is more of the same. at first a very sweet scotch ale with big toffee notes, but washed over with some sage and white pepper spicing. very festive and very autumn. almost too much so. a bit tart, perhaps over oaked as the vanilla shines through big time.
m - easy drinker...carb is weak. this should've been brewed before the head brewer left, but still not all that impressive. folks at the release who have enjoyed others seem to feel that this is not a great representation of what they are/were capable of. at the end of the day this is a seasonal and autumn at that beer that is good, but not great. perhaps i missed the boat on this brewery, but if this was what was brewing before all the drama, then i don't really get what all the hub bub is about. this is a style i love and this, although unique, beer is not a good sample of the style.
Feb 08, 2014a - brew poured a fairly still muddy brown with not much on top. not all that attractive.
s - nose boasts scoatch ale toffee and a nice amount of seasoning spices.
t - taste is more of the same. at first a very sweet scotch ale with big toffee notes, but washed over with some sage and white pepper spicing. very festive and very autumn. almost too much so. a bit tart, perhaps over oaked as the vanilla shines through big time.
m - easy drinker...carb is weak. this should've been brewed before the head brewer left, but still not all that impressive. folks at the release who have enjoyed others seem to feel that this is not a great representation of what they are/were capable of. at the end of the day this is a seasonal and autumn at that beer that is good, but not great. perhaps i missed the boat on this brewery, but if this was what was brewing before all the drama, then i don't really get what all the hub bub is about. this is a style i love and this, although unique, beer is not a good sample of the style.
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
From the 750 ml. corked, caged bottle. sampled on December 31, 2013.
It pours mostly brown with a few copper hues and a slight haze building up to an off-white head.
This was aged in wine barrels and whether that is good or bad, the winy aroma is the leading scent on the nose followed more distantly by the malts.
Medium to bold body.
But the taste is a slightly different story. There is still a little tart, grape, wine note but this time the malts introduce themselves more so and it ends with a low bitterness. Alcohol is well integrated into the beer on the whole and this is highly drinkable.
Jan 01, 2014It pours mostly brown with a few copper hues and a slight haze building up to an off-white head.
This was aged in wine barrels and whether that is good or bad, the winy aroma is the leading scent on the nose followed more distantly by the malts.
Medium to bold body.
But the taste is a slightly different story. There is still a little tart, grape, wine note but this time the malts introduce themselves more so and it ends with a low bitterness. Alcohol is well integrated into the beer on the whole and this is highly drinkable.
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