Gregarious
Queen City Brewery in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
6.80
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Made from only fine Scottish malt, English hops, our distinctive ale yeast and fresh Vermont water, our strong Scotch ale is meat to be savored. Kettle caramelization of the wort and cool fermentation produce a smooth, full bodied strong ale.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown with copper highlights and a small tan head that left decent lacing. Toasty malt, bread crust, fig, raisin, cherry and cola. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Sep 2025
at 01:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours brown. Caramel, toffee, nettle, prune, raspberry. Medium body. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2024
at 23:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
First trip to this brewery, April 2019. Caramel amber colour with a beige head, decent stay and lacing. Malty nose, but quite mild compared to their Barleywine. Rich malty taste with a cutting hoppy finish. Pretty dry mouthfeel for the style. A hoppier Scotch Ale that goes down nicely.
Tried
on 05 May 2020
at 23:21
7/10
Tried
on 27 Jul 2019
at 19:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Clear deep amber brown color off white head. Aroma of lightly toasted caramel. Taste has caramel, light toffee. Very malt forward.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jul 2018
at 19:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On Tap. @V Barcelona Beer Festival.Del 04 al 06/03/2016 Color marrón, aromas maltosos, sabor caramelo, balta.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2016
at 12:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Burnt orange to brown appearance bitter aroma. Has a little candy aroma with a lot of herb. Bitter, orange peel, cinnamon, brown sugar but nothing in a sweet way. Good malt body. Nice mouthfeel
Tried
from Can
on 14 Dec 2015
at 10:02
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
This was poured into a thistle.
The appearance was a thin looking hazy brown color with a big transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen rising to hit a one finger white foamy head that dissipated extremely quickly.
The smell has a light sweet peaty to light caramel malt rushing over a peanut butter flavor, not sure where that came from, but I kept this at proper temps.
The taste was malty sweet through all of the previously mentioned flavors. A lingering malty sweet aftertaste runs into a deep sweet finish.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light on the body, for a wee heavy/scotch, the sessionability is super scary. And this is supposed to be an imperial???
Overall, well, this will stand for now, but am hoping I can get some feedback from this brewery on their true intentions on this one. Personally, if you’re looking for a scotch ale in Vermont, I’d tell you to go after Founder’s Dirty Bastard before this, better body and more flavor in that one before this.
The appearance was a thin looking hazy brown color with a big transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen rising to hit a one finger white foamy head that dissipated extremely quickly.
The smell has a light sweet peaty to light caramel malt rushing over a peanut butter flavor, not sure where that came from, but I kept this at proper temps.
The taste was malty sweet through all of the previously mentioned flavors. A lingering malty sweet aftertaste runs into a deep sweet finish.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light on the body, for a wee heavy/scotch, the sessionability is super scary. And this is supposed to be an imperial???
Overall, well, this will stand for now, but am hoping I can get some feedback from this brewery on their true intentions on this one. Personally, if you’re looking for a scotch ale in Vermont, I’d tell you to go after Founder’s Dirty Bastard before this, better body and more flavor in that one before this.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2015
at 22:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
650 ml bottle, purchased at Queen City. Clear Amber in color with steady carbonation level. Aroma is English malts that give toffee, toasted grains and bread.
Flavor is spot on the style. Light toffee, toasted nuts, spicy caramel with a mild earth element. Medium in body with a sticky texture / syrup over the tongue. I also get some yeast flavor. Pretty solid as far as the style goes. Nice
Flavor is spot on the style. Light toffee, toasted nuts, spicy caramel with a mild earth element. Medium in body with a sticky texture / syrup over the tongue. I also get some yeast flavor. Pretty solid as far as the style goes. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2015
at 19:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops. Nice reddish brown color with a thin off white head. Aromas of malt caramel bread and English hops. Taste is slightly sweet caramel hint of fruit and toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2015
at 19:37