Best Scotch ale?

If you ever get to Montreal, look for MacKroken Flower, an excellent Scotch ale. You can find it in a Depanneur( convenience store). Also, Cambridge Brewing Bannatyne ale is excellent, available in the Boston, MA area.

 

Thank you, I'll be in Boston next month and will look this up!

 

Loved this year's smutty scotch ale. 50% in red wine barrels

 

I caved a little while back and bought a bottle of the barrel-aged MacKroken, the one aged in mead barrels. Haven't cracked it open yet, but I'm looking for any excuse. Just don't want to have to drink it by myself; it'd likely knock my ass out! It's also expensive, almost 20 bucks a bottle...

 

Curmudgeons better half, Hoh-Lee-Shiiiiiiit.

 

Mmmmmmmoylans...

 

Isn't that an "Old Ale" though? Not certain on the exact differences there, so I hope this comment doesn't provoke a shitstorm

 

Worried about that when I posted. Dont even care, this thread made me fondly remember curmudgeons better half, and I love it for that.

 

Tri-City Regimental Reserve

 

Best Non BA - Alesmith Wee Heavy and Old Chubb

Best BA - although I love Backwoods Bastard and start to get the shakes anytime my supply dips below 10 bottles it's not the most complex.

 

Claymore and Old Chub up in this bitch.
I drank them at a blue grass festival in Lyons over the summer for 3 days straight!

 

Not the ones actually brewed in Scotland. Historically Scotch Ale contained only one type of malt: standard pale malt.

 

No, it's from 1939.

 

Say Word!

 

Try Equinoxe Du printemps from Dieu Du Ciel - Montreal Microbrewery. It's not aged in barrels (as far as I know), but it does have maple syrup in its taste profile and is one of the best scotch ale's I've ever had

 

I agree. Peat smoke is highly phenolic. Some were confused a long time ago by yeast phenolics that can be confused as smokey. The guy who thinks caramalized malt tastes smokey should find some and chew on it, not smokey.

 

Or a dram of Laphroaig. If that doesn't help them understand what peat tastes like then nothing will.

 

One quote I like is from the homebrewing community. Someone judged a beer made with a high % (50?) of peated malt. "It smelled like an open grave".

 

Skullsplitter is an underrated great from across the pond...well deserving of the name.

 

I love the style! Belhaven's Wee Heavy was the first beer that made me say," holy sh*t, that's good!"