Andy's Wee Heavy Scottish Ale
Common Crown Brewing Co.
- From:
- Common Crown Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.69 | pDev: 3.52%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 14, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. Now this is more like it, given the time of year!
This beer appears a mostly clear, dark mahogany brown colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly tan head, which leaves but a few instances of ocean spume lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee sweetness, muddled black stone fruit, a bit of earthy yeastiness, faintly meaty char, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, tobacco smoke, some mild dark orchard fruitiness, and more understated earthy, leafy, and slightly soused-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its benign-seeming frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with just a wee pithiness kind of there from the get-go. It finishes trending dry, the wan smokiness starting to take over the proceedings.
Overall - this is an appreciable enough version of the style, if a sort of banal one at the same time. It masks its 15-proof booze factor quite well, and is indeed worth trying, but isn't exactly something that I would order again if I had any sort of other options, or, y'know, a capable waitress, as such.
Dec 10, 2017This beer appears a mostly clear, dark mahogany brown colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly tan head, which leaves but a few instances of ocean spume lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee sweetness, muddled black stone fruit, a bit of earthy yeastiness, faintly meaty char, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, tobacco smoke, some mild dark orchard fruitiness, and more understated earthy, leafy, and slightly soused-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its benign-seeming frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with just a wee pithiness kind of there from the get-go. It finishes trending dry, the wan smokiness starting to take over the proceedings.
Overall - this is an appreciable enough version of the style, if a sort of banal one at the same time. It masks its 15-proof booze factor quite well, and is indeed worth trying, but isn't exactly something that I would order again if I had any sort of other options, or, y'know, a capable waitress, as such.
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