Scandal Ale
Pacific Western Brewing Company
- From:
- Pacific Western Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.14 | pDev: 6.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 24, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 23, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
3.35/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
A tasty little brew. Nothing spectacular or ground-breaking.
Not as dark as I would have assumed it to be for a red ale.
Nice bitterness, nice balance with the malt.
May 24, 2016Not as dark as I would have assumed it to be for a red ale.
Nice bitterness, nice balance with the malt.
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.37/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Stubby bottle poured into a tulip glass. Medium bronze hue with a finger or so of beige foam, quite creamy and leaving some nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is actually rather English to me, but in a coarse sense ... Grainy, rough, with some caramel and floppy hay-like/floral hop notes. The palate is a mealy dried fruit and coarse grain sweetness coupled with some grass-like hop flavors. Hints of bruised apple, raisin, and brown spice coupled with brown sugar and grain husk. Rustic, hearty, does not showcase the kinder side of caramel malts. Fairly fizzy and of moderate t full body. Finish remains rather malty and sweet, with the faintest citrus echo. Despite the most excellent packaging, I am torn on this one. I prefer the lager from this brewery but both beers are rough around the edges and fit for consumption by the rugged, fitting I suppose. Too grainy, too bready, and the diacetyl/caramel malt combo falls flat here.
Sep 23, 2014
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.09/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.09/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
341ml, squat, cute as all get out stubbie bottle, and weird WW1 German-themed stein imagery.
This beer pours a crystal clear, medium copper amber colour, with one fat finger of flat, weakly foamy dirty white head, which leaves some random specks of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.
It smells of grainy, somewhat sour pale and caramel malt, soggy breakfast cereal, pithy orange and apple fruit esters, and kind of acrid grassy, earthy hops. The taste is generally the same - gritty, weakly caramelized malt, more bready than anything, and stale at that, a subtle wet stone flintiness, well-faded generic fruit notes, and bland grassy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is pretty low-key, hardly making a dent on the palate, the body a barely adequate medium weight, and kind of tacky in its otherwise quotidian smoothness. It finishes just off-dry, the malt starting to wane, with little else remaining that might be worthy of stepping in to take its place.
Another obvious example of the flaw in this site's new-ish beer adding system - how the hell am I supposed to (consistently) know the style (fuck yer typical marketer's idea of such), before, y'know, I actually review it? Anyways, this is actually a typically bland, craft-adjacent Canadian amber ale, once again, nothing bad, but nothing all that good either. Sigh.
Feb 23, 2014This beer pours a crystal clear, medium copper amber colour, with one fat finger of flat, weakly foamy dirty white head, which leaves some random specks of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.
It smells of grainy, somewhat sour pale and caramel malt, soggy breakfast cereal, pithy orange and apple fruit esters, and kind of acrid grassy, earthy hops. The taste is generally the same - gritty, weakly caramelized malt, more bready than anything, and stale at that, a subtle wet stone flintiness, well-faded generic fruit notes, and bland grassy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is pretty low-key, hardly making a dent on the palate, the body a barely adequate medium weight, and kind of tacky in its otherwise quotidian smoothness. It finishes just off-dry, the malt starting to wane, with little else remaining that might be worthy of stepping in to take its place.
Another obvious example of the flaw in this site's new-ish beer adding system - how the hell am I supposed to (consistently) know the style (fuck yer typical marketer's idea of such), before, y'know, I actually review it? Anyways, this is actually a typically bland, craft-adjacent Canadian amber ale, once again, nothing bad, but nothing all that good either. Sigh.
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