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Wee Beastie Oak Aged Scotch Ale
Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- From:
- Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 7.41%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 25, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 23, 2013
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 7
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Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Howe Sound continues to impress with their great beer and great value. This is one of the better Wee Heavy beers I've had. The usual smokey/peaty notes were noticeably absent in this one. The caramel flavour is creamy and smooth. An excellent beer.
Dec 16, 2015Reviewed by Svingjo from Canada (BC)
3.71/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a dark brown with a thick beige head that quickly dissipates leaving a thin layer. The nose leads with roasted nuts, sweet malts, dark toffee and bread. The taste leads with much of the same with the malt coming to the forefront, along with a woodiness. There is a bit of bitterness in the finish that is balanced with a medium carbonation and mouthfeel.
Dec 09, 2015Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
1L swing-top bottle, part of the current Carton of Coal seasonal gift pack here in Alberta (I like the new 'grey' touque!). No specification as to how the oak was applied herein.
This beer pours a clear (I think), dark mahogany brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, and mostly just pervasively bubbly beige head, which leaves some exploding cannonball splash lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted, and slightly meaty caramel malt, toasted toffee confectionery, earthy, and sort of medicinal peat, a tame soused barrel woodiness, indistinct black orchard fruit, and a pleasant dash of leafy, weedy, and spicy hop bitters. The taste is bready, somewhat doughy caramel malt, a weirdly isolated wet char thing, more damp and dank peat moss, ethereal vanilla, spirit, and wooden stave barrel notes, fading and muddled bruised apples and pears, and a still subtle earthy, leafy, and faintly spicy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite low and unencumbered in its gentile frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee (sorry) attendant creaminess, especially as things warm up a bit. It finishes well off-dry, but not really falling into the morass of an overly sweet situation - smoke, hop, and wood all seeing to that.
Overall, a nicely oak-kissed version of the style, as the woody esters obscure the 14-proof booze as well as anything could. The base beer seems up for anything, and I mean that in a robust drinking experience manner, without the dumb-ass double entendre of recent BMC marketing fail. Good stuff, but too bad I didn't save this until late January - oh well.
Nov 16, 2015This beer pours a clear (I think), dark mahogany brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, and mostly just pervasively bubbly beige head, which leaves some exploding cannonball splash lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted, and slightly meaty caramel malt, toasted toffee confectionery, earthy, and sort of medicinal peat, a tame soused barrel woodiness, indistinct black orchard fruit, and a pleasant dash of leafy, weedy, and spicy hop bitters. The taste is bready, somewhat doughy caramel malt, a weirdly isolated wet char thing, more damp and dank peat moss, ethereal vanilla, spirit, and wooden stave barrel notes, fading and muddled bruised apples and pears, and a still subtle earthy, leafy, and faintly spicy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite low and unencumbered in its gentile frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee (sorry) attendant creaminess, especially as things warm up a bit. It finishes well off-dry, but not really falling into the morass of an overly sweet situation - smoke, hop, and wood all seeing to that.
Overall, a nicely oak-kissed version of the style, as the woody esters obscure the 14-proof booze as well as anything could. The base beer seems up for anything, and I mean that in a robust drinking experience manner, without the dumb-ass double entendre of recent BMC marketing fail. Good stuff, but too bad I didn't save this until late January - oh well.
Reviewed by Leftbob from North Carolina
3.78/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Half pint on tap
Dark appearance minimal head minimal lacing as a result
Nice malty aroma a eleny of barrel aging
Taste driven by malt with appealing bitterness. Very few citrus notes. You can taste the barrel aging in the finish with a nice oak appearance.
All in all a good not great scotch ale enhanced with the barrel again
Biggest complaint is the flavor is a bit muddy as opposed to crisp and distinctive
Aug 27, 2015Dark appearance minimal head minimal lacing as a result
Nice malty aroma a eleny of barrel aging
Taste driven by malt with appealing bitterness. Very few citrus notes. You can taste the barrel aging in the finish with a nice oak appearance.
All in all a good not great scotch ale enhanced with the barrel again
Biggest complaint is the flavor is a bit muddy as opposed to crisp and distinctive
Rated by scottiethebody from California
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
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Dec 27, 2014
Wee Beastie Oak Aged Scotch Ale from Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
33 ratings
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