Stag Apple Scotch Ale
The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- From:
- The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 2.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 10, 2015
- Added:
- Mar 16, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, made with freshly-pressed Okanagan apples - my guess is that this will more than slightly resemble caramelized apples of fairground concession lore.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber hue, with two chubby fingers of frothy, densely foamy, and cake-batter-like beige head, which leaves some decent craggy webbed lace around the glass as it slowly fades away.
It smells of bready caramel malt, toffee, warm apple puree, a bit of cider-esque booze acridity, and soft musty, earthy hops. The taste is biscuity, bready caramel malt, crystalline toffee, mealy mushed apple (the whole apple), a mild savoury spiciness (that can't be cinnamon, now, can it, brain?), and pleasantly active leafy, piney hops - somewhat unexpected for the style.
The bubbles are nice and easy-going, just a wee fizziness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a burgeoning, just under the surface creaminess. It finishes well off-dry, but not too far-flung - just some semi-sweet apple-flecked biscuity caramel malt.
Hardly as saccharine as a dipped candied apple, but rather more balanced and drinkable, the guest fruit star keeping it down. As for the big ABV, other than a twinge in the aroma, it goes blindly unnoticed. My only real complaint is that this could be even heavier, the weight just seems a tad too 'wee'.
Mar 16, 2014This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber hue, with two chubby fingers of frothy, densely foamy, and cake-batter-like beige head, which leaves some decent craggy webbed lace around the glass as it slowly fades away.
It smells of bready caramel malt, toffee, warm apple puree, a bit of cider-esque booze acridity, and soft musty, earthy hops. The taste is biscuity, bready caramel malt, crystalline toffee, mealy mushed apple (the whole apple), a mild savoury spiciness (that can't be cinnamon, now, can it, brain?), and pleasantly active leafy, piney hops - somewhat unexpected for the style.
The bubbles are nice and easy-going, just a wee fizziness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a burgeoning, just under the surface creaminess. It finishes well off-dry, but not too far-flung - just some semi-sweet apple-flecked biscuity caramel malt.
Hardly as saccharine as a dipped candied apple, but rather more balanced and drinkable, the guest fruit star keeping it down. As for the big ABV, other than a twinge in the aroma, it goes blindly unnoticed. My only real complaint is that this could be even heavier, the weight just seems a tad too 'wee'.
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