Poured into the glass, this 6.5% alcohol-fueled Wee Heavy maintains a fuzzy head and creamy body. Peculiar mocha-grained brown-sugared raisin murk thickened by buttery caramel malt residue before bourbon-port finish flutters away.
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O’DELLS 90 SHILLING COLORADO ALE
Musty medium-bodied amber-toned Scottie barely overcomes nebulous nature. Fizzy chocolate malt graze, scattered floral-fruited spicing and resinous hop plod lead to uninterestingly slim peat-grained finish, becoming sulfuric. Brewer’s best selling flagship beer is strictly for lunkheads.
(BERT) GRANT’S SCOTTISH ALE
OLDE BURNSIDE TEN PENNY ALE
BRISTOL’S LAUGHING LAB SCOTTISH-STYLE ALE
Pleasant tobacco leaf opening absorbed by sour coffee beans, syrupy molasses malts, and dried fig-raisin confluence of prune-hued dark ale. Debonair spiced hop sentiment quells baker’s chocolate bitterness, rye-pumpernickel braze, and honeyed pecan-hazelnut glaze. Too tamely turbid for heavyweight Scottish class, yet wholly satisfied.
ORKNEY RED MAC GREGOR RUBY ALE
BROADWAY ROAD DOG SCOTTISH ALE
Wild jester collage on bottle’s label perhaps inspired by beat poet Hunter S. Thompson’s ancient Celtic axiom. Though dark brown-hued, this is a light, unassuming ‘also ran.’ A bit nutty with pleasurable butterscotch snuggling spring water freshness, though lacking discernible character. Later brewed by Denver’s Flying Dog. Brewery defunct: 2006.
OSKAR BLUES OLD CHUB SCOTTISH STYLE ALE
Canned ruby-garnet wee heavy Scottish ale adroitly adjoins ashen butterscotch-mocha-chocolate sweetness to wheat biscuit spine. Dried tobacco, earthy peat, and leather linger beneath smoked maple midst. Roasted barley and rolled oats fortify veritable toasted lager-like finish. Alcohol insurgency impels charming barleywine recess.
CALEDONIAN 80/- PUB DRAUGHT ALE
PELICAN MAC PELICAN’S SCOTTISH STYLE ALE
COLUMBUS 90 SHILLING ALE
RAMAPO VALLEY SKULLCRUSHER SCOTTISH ALE
Uncommonly complex deep ebony full body seems closer to sweet stout with its boundless cedar-smoked chocolate-vanilla creaminess and black cherry ripening. Thick syrupy richness imbues burgundy-liqueur midst as burnt wood beckons meaty salami insistence by superlative bittersweet finish. Perfect digestif.





