Radical Road Canny Man

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 9

Beautiful packaging for their first brew. Black paper with their logo on it. Two big tags explaining what you are getting. Inside, a black Champagne bottle with a cork and cage. Pours a dark amber colour with an off-white frothy head, great retention and some nice creamy lace. Very carbonated with little bubbles. You can actually smell the whiskey in this one. Peaty nose with hints of burnt wood and fruity malts. Medium-bodied with a smooth, almost silky mouthfeel and not feeling much burning. The taste is a little lighter, but still the whiskey notes are present. Not as sweet as expected. A lovely first offering from this brewery and a real treat for whiskey lovers.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Very different and unique packaging to catch your eye. Now to see what the inside is like :) Pours an average size frothy off-white head and has a dark copper appearance, sort of rusty. Scotch/whisky aroma is actually sort of faint but enough to notice it is. Alcohol is there with a smokey type scent as well. Bitter flavours almost immediately. Has notes of molasses, oats, barley malts, hints of caramel and toffee. Sort of a smokey aftertaste. Really strong and bitter mouthfeel. warming sensation on the palate. Pretty good stuff, but for 9% it shows, not unlike some 10%abv I've had which we're better well hidden.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

750ml corked/caged bottle with fancy wrapping paper and awesome graphic tags. First impression was this "shore is a purdy bottle" - bet the brew isn't fit for skunks - how wrong I was. Inside that arty package was a hazy deep amber unfiltered ale with a massive cap that lasts and champagne-like effervescence from bottle conditioning. Big burley aroma fills the room with a pungent smoky-malty sweetness. Hopping is moderate but efficient and there is a nice fruitiness riding below the caramel malt and smokiness. I think this brew gets most of its smokiness from the scotch whiskey barrel as it was stronger in aroma than in the flavor profile. This is a big robust ale with the sweetness and smokiness held in check by wonderful malt complexity, fruity esters and a decent drying in the finish from good yeast attenuation. This is a world class effort from the brewers and a joy to sip on.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

750ml bottle
9.1% ABV
RBC Plaza LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
February 23, 2013
The beer pours a golden amber colour with a generous off-white head. Aroma is peat, smoke, caramel, and molasses....quite complex actually. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavour is smoke and sweet malt up front with quite a bit peatiness in the finish. Not as sweet as other Scotch Ales.