Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch Style Ale
Pike Brewing Company

3.63/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
by stevoj from Idaho

Dark amber ale with elements of peat, wood, caramel and smoky malt. Skin of a beige head, medium weight, tangy palate with a slow, mild alcohol burn. Nice sipper for a fall day.

Nov 10, 2021

3.62/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
by darkbeerpub from Washington

solid wee heavy

Jan 09, 2020

3.73/5  rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)

Draft: Poured a clear burgundy color ale with a medium off-white foamy head with OK retention and light carbonation. Aroma of caramelized malt with light toffee notes is enjoyable. Taste is also a mix of caramelized malt notes, some toffee with some residual sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Not the most complex offering from the style but enjoyable nonetheless.

Oct 13, 2019

3.32/5  rDev -7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
by Mrbob558 from New York

This is my first scotch ale, so I have nothing similar to contrast it to, but I was not very impressed with this beer. I go along with the mouth puckering taste and feel comment of another reviewer. The smell was fine, similar to a scotch whiskey. Color was ok. All in all ok, but nothing gry.

Sep 17, 2019

3.83/5  rDev +7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
by Chrisamr from California

Not much aroma but a very nice flavor. Very smooth. Reminds me of a barrel aged quad in a way.

Jul 10, 2019

3.09/5  rDev -13.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
by JarMills from Canada (BC)

Had a bottle. Tatse was sour, acidic and slightly hoppy tones. It pours a nice ruby red, and smells decent, but the taste and mouth feel are puckering.

Aug 23, 2018

3.85/5  rDev +7.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
by zeff80 from Missouri

On tap. Poured a dark brown color with a small, khaki-colored head of foam. It smelled of smoked malt, peat and toffee. Good earthy tasting beer with a smokiness and roasted malt taste.

Jun 01, 2018

3.06/5  rDev -14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
by Holderness from Massachusetts

L -- Pours a clarified amber body with a 1.5-finger off-white head. Good retention and lacing
S -- Brown sugar, molasses, caramel, touch of herbal hops and smoke
T -- Herbal hops, honey, molasses, caramel
F -- Semi-sweet, interesting interplay between hops and molasses. Medium- mouthfeel, medium+ carb.

62/100

Apr 15, 2018

3.67/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
by kemoarps from Washington

Deep rich honey coloured body. Small off white head quickly settles into the ring around the collar and perhaps some webbing across the liquid.

Nose is earthy and spicy sweet malts. Hints of caramel and faint toffee to meet with soda-bread.

Same on the tongue. Starts with a light sweet caramel with some toasted biscuits. Short up front, then brings the earthy bitter/spicy tone and rolls through an indecisive stretch before settling deeply into an almost vegetal bitter finish fleshed out with more of the toasty malts.

Crisp and sharply carbonated. Fairly thin, but not watery. Finishes more dry. Goes down easy.

Apr 14, 2018

3.01/5  rDev -15.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
by BorisNorris from Idaho

Pours dirty brown with ruby-ish highlights; thin tan head. Rich malt aroma, toffee, plums. Sweet, rich toffee flavor to start, dark fruit, plum-esque flavor finishes it off. Hop flavor and bitterness is very low. Noticeable alcohol, but not overpowering or unpleasant. Medium-full body that engulfs the palate and then floats away into a dry, earthy mild bitterness.

Jan 19, 2018

3.79/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

Poured into a thistle, the appearance was a dark amber to red/brown color with a finger and a half's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Not much lace, somewhat stringy, yet sliding.
The aroma had a nice blend of red delicious apples, light herbal to earthy sweetness, caramel/toffee malts, light biscuits, and ended with some raisins.
The flavor did a decent job of melding all of those prior mentioned aromas together to nurture the same sort of aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied, seemed to sit just a touch under and had a nice and low carbonation about it as it should. ABV did feel appropriate.
Overall, as a Scotch ale, it works, the herbal/earthiness was there with some other aromas and flavors that I didn't mind that seemed a bit different. I'd still have again.

Aug 12, 2017

3.53/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
by gandres from Philippines

Pint Glass during happy hour at the Issian Stonegrill at Wallingford, Seattle on Monday after New Year
amber hazy big off white foam that disappear slowly
not a lot of aroma
very good bitterness
long follow through, bitter aftertaste
very good beer, can be repeat, but not something to look forward to
drank: January 2, 2017 5:03 PM

Jan 03, 2017

3.78/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
by Libeertarian from Montana

From notes taken 07/08/16:

Clear at first, quite hazy and nearly opaque with last bit of pour. Deep copper. Quite a bit darker than brandy, but still lighter than ruby. Fine, cream-foam head, biscuity-tan with moderate retention. Surprising lacing for how small the head is. Caramel, toffee, booze, dark fruit on the nose. All of these same qualities in flavor, balanced somewhat by toastiness, and finished with hops that are lightly metallic, and just barely more earthy. Aftertaste is soapy but thankfully not strong. Medium-bodied, velvety cream to pure cream.

Oct 20, 2016