Way Heavy 80
Coal Creek TAP
- From:
- Coal Creek TAP
- Wyoming, United States
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 8.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 17, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 17, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The Way Heavy 80, brewed with a diverse blend of eight types of malted barley, hops and yeast, and aged in Wyoming Whiskey barrels, yields a complex beer with notes of caramel, dried fruit and a hint of smoke. Medium bodied, highly drinkable and very satisfying. A classic Scottish-Style ale.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
4.11/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
From a 22oz bottle - a bomber! I haven’t seen one of these for awhile! - undated as best I can tell. Served in the preternaturally fragile Spiegelau tulip glass. 22oz of an 8.7% beer… isn’t life grand?
Pours a burnt caramel colour, near-enough to opaque in the glass barring a narrow plum margin. A finger-plus of soft beige suds with excellent retention, leaves a creamy cap and fat collar and a rousable sheet of slippery lacing.
Nose is sweet and savory. The aroma is somehow reminiscent of duck sauce which probably doesn’t sound like something that beer should smell like but which is, I promise, enticing.
Taste is unexpectedly earthy and woody - which is the influence of the whiskey barrels, I suppose. Tasting fig, prune and a crusty, stale pumpernickel. The earthiness has a sort of dirt basement floor character and the woodiness is smoky like last night’s damp fire pit. There is vanishingly little sweetness, at least not relative to what I would expect from the style.
Feel is smooth but with the kind of grainy, alcoholic drying quality I associate with isopropyl alcohol. Medium-light bodied, maybe a little lighter than what I’d expect from a wee, and with abundant super-fine, tingly carbonation. There’s a comfortably warm, boozy glow in the gullet which might be the best part.
Overall, a slightly mixed bag, but mostly to the good. First of all, I’ve been narrating this review in my head in a sort of Scottish-cowboy voice which I’m afraid won’t go away when I’m done and may cost me my marriage in the short run and, ultimately, my sanity. Beyond that, it was a peculiarly dry, ‘unsweet ’ Scotch ale which, in and of itself, is not a bad thing but, in addition, has an uncharacteristically (again, relative to the style) funk-dirty taste, most likely owing to the whiskey barrel.
Aug 17, 2023Pours a burnt caramel colour, near-enough to opaque in the glass barring a narrow plum margin. A finger-plus of soft beige suds with excellent retention, leaves a creamy cap and fat collar and a rousable sheet of slippery lacing.
Nose is sweet and savory. The aroma is somehow reminiscent of duck sauce which probably doesn’t sound like something that beer should smell like but which is, I promise, enticing.
Taste is unexpectedly earthy and woody - which is the influence of the whiskey barrels, I suppose. Tasting fig, prune and a crusty, stale pumpernickel. The earthiness has a sort of dirt basement floor character and the woodiness is smoky like last night’s damp fire pit. There is vanishingly little sweetness, at least not relative to what I would expect from the style.
Feel is smooth but with the kind of grainy, alcoholic drying quality I associate with isopropyl alcohol. Medium-light bodied, maybe a little lighter than what I’d expect from a wee, and with abundant super-fine, tingly carbonation. There’s a comfortably warm, boozy glow in the gullet which might be the best part.
Overall, a slightly mixed bag, but mostly to the good. First of all, I’ve been narrating this review in my head in a sort of Scottish-cowboy voice which I’m afraid won’t go away when I’m done and may cost me my marriage in the short run and, ultimately, my sanity. Beyond that, it was a peculiarly dry, ‘unsweet ’ Scotch ale which, in and of itself, is not a bad thing but, in addition, has an uncharacteristically (again, relative to the style) funk-dirty taste, most likely owing to the whiskey barrel.
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