Angry Scotsman
Blue Stallion Brewing Co.

 

While the taste for ale is plenty rewarding at lower, and more drinkable, respectable alcohol ranges; sometimes the tastebuds crave something stronger, something more powerful, something perhaps a bit reckless. Sometimes the tastebuds just want an angry beer.

Angry Scotsman pours with a lowly carbonated mahogany brown austere with lighter chestnut browns about its margins. Capped with a soft coffee-like creme, the ale draws the nose near with its deep toffee, molasses and buckwheat savory sweetness. To taste, its a direct carryover from scent with decadently sweet taste of sorghum, maple and molasses.

And with those savory and weighted malt sweetnesses deeply saturating the tastebuds, the session is turned into a slow and sipping affair in order to fully appreciate the complex, richer flavors that the beer gives. Over-cooked sweetness is wonderfully seared with molasses, toffee and butter pecan- but with a mild peppery, campfire balance. Warming flavors of spiced rum and coffee offset the malt and keeps the ale palatable and pleasantly vinous.

Finishing long and savory, the rounded taste evokes the memories of grandma's horehound candy with its root beer character, sarsaparilla, peat and soiled, rootish earthiness. Its warming alcohol provides a deep port wine character as the flavors easily meld into the next savory sip.

The palate wants what the palate wants.