Long Valley Scotch Ale
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 3.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 17, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 23, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
4.13/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Bottle: Poured a dark copper color ale with a large off-white foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of caramelized malt with dry grainy whiskey notes is pretty interesting. Taste is also dominated by caramelized notes with light toffee notes discernable with some dry grainy whiskey notes. Body is about average with good carbonation and light warming alcohol notes. Well brewed thought barrel-aging takes a sizeable amount of the flavour profile with this one.
Jan 17, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.94/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle. This is Alley Kat's Darn Tartan Scotch Ale, aged in a Strathmill distillery cask, apparently exclusively for Liquor Depot's Wine and Beyond locations, as I've never seen it elsewhere.
This beer pours a faintly hazy dark ruddy amber hue, with two healthy fingers of tightly foamy, and rather creamy beige head, which leaves a random array of high altitude cloud lace around the glass as it steadily ebbs away.
It smells of mildly peaty, somewhat acrid smoke, gritty barrel wood, a sturdy caramel/toffee malt, semi-sweet vanilla, a tame bar-top nuttiness, and earthy, leafy, kind of weedy hops. The taste is softly grainy wood, subtle caramel malt, a touch of dry treacle, mild vanilla, soft brittle cocoa, a touch of cigar smoke, and more earthy, leafy hops. Simple, but quite good - as is the barely perceptible 16-proof ABV.
The carbonation is fairly innocuous, the body a so-so medium-light weight, due in no small part to the thinning barrel effect, with a slight nudge towards a creamy smoothness. It finishes well off-dry, the sweetness of the inherent malt still bolstered by the fairly saccharine barrel characteristics - vanilla, meek spice, and caramel all - with a slight uptick in the booze as things warm up.
A pleasant enough rendition of the original offering - same strength, but with a more than subtle scythe through the weightiness of it all. Combined with the subdued barrel notes, this is a fair bit more drinkable, in a very good way, than I was expecting. Too bad about the limited distro, then, and the total lack of promotional information from the usual sources.
Jul 23, 2013This beer pours a faintly hazy dark ruddy amber hue, with two healthy fingers of tightly foamy, and rather creamy beige head, which leaves a random array of high altitude cloud lace around the glass as it steadily ebbs away.
It smells of mildly peaty, somewhat acrid smoke, gritty barrel wood, a sturdy caramel/toffee malt, semi-sweet vanilla, a tame bar-top nuttiness, and earthy, leafy, kind of weedy hops. The taste is softly grainy wood, subtle caramel malt, a touch of dry treacle, mild vanilla, soft brittle cocoa, a touch of cigar smoke, and more earthy, leafy hops. Simple, but quite good - as is the barely perceptible 16-proof ABV.
The carbonation is fairly innocuous, the body a so-so medium-light weight, due in no small part to the thinning barrel effect, with a slight nudge towards a creamy smoothness. It finishes well off-dry, the sweetness of the inherent malt still bolstered by the fairly saccharine barrel characteristics - vanilla, meek spice, and caramel all - with a slight uptick in the booze as things warm up.
A pleasant enough rendition of the original offering - same strength, but with a more than subtle scythe through the weightiness of it all. Combined with the subdued barrel notes, this is a fair bit more drinkable, in a very good way, than I was expecting. Too bad about the limited distro, then, and the total lack of promotional information from the usual sources.
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