Salty Scot
Parallel 49 Brewing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
6.89
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Building upon a Scottish "Wee Heavy", this unique beer was developed to provide a strong caramel malt flavour with enough salt to give it a bit of a bite. Stronger in alcohol, this beer starts off sweet but remains fairly light to drink.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Big bottle. Caramel brown pour. Toffee butterscotch and roasted malts. Lots of salt...
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Medium to dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma has a lot of caramel. Taste is toffee, caramel. Not so much salt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 06:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Flight pour at brewery. Pours clear amber with small white head. Aroma has a ton of salty caramel. Flavour has a ton of up front salty caramel. Reasonably off-dry finish though. For such a caramel-forward beer this is actually pretty solid. Nice.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2024
at 02:36
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Wiz. Aroma is big caramel. But not overly sweet. Bit of cocoa powder. Taste is good. Caramel of course, can't quite get the saltiness, but there's definitely a little bite to it. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:05
7/10
Tried
on 04 Apr 2019
at 02:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft pour at Parallel 49. Ruby caramel pour with a thin, patchy head. Sweet, toasty aroma. Cinnamon, vanilla, cream, mixed spices. Flavor is a maple like constant. Caramel heavy malts. Remains smooth, and not boozy in any way. Delicious scotch ale here. Quite inpressed.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Dec 2017
at 19:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap. Pours light brown, not very carbonated. Full on caramel nose, sweet withs some dried figs. Taste is caramelly, candy-sweet, burnt sugar but alcohol is covered well. Salty feel comes out as well. Not my favourite style but drinks well.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jun 2017
at 19:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
650ml bottle. Pours a clear dark amber with red hue and a small, creamy, short lived, beige head that leaves spotty lacing. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, toffee and vanilla. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, toffee, butterscotch, vanilla, light roast, chocolate and a hint of salt in a dry finish. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2017
at 19:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can from Taniguchi. A sea salted caramel version of a scotch ale that fills my thistle glass with amber brown goodness. The light beige heads doesn’t linger but does leave a ring of film behind. The aroma is syrupy caramel, bread pudding and salt. Medium to full bodied with a sharp burnt toffee caramel then a mouth-smacking salt edge melding into chocolate notes. This pretty much nails salted caramel with charred/burnt accents but it feels like it’s a touch cloying or artificial. Yep, I just checked the label and the salt is real but the caramel flavor is fake... well from some kind of concentrate. Shame but it’s still a pretty good brew. It definitely reminds me of a bunch of other of these "food" type brews but I can’t recall which one, maybe one of those Rogue voodoo donuts ones?
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2016
at 11:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from The Beerhive. Clear amber body with a thin off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of salted caramel, sugary tea and toffee. Flavour of stewed apple, brown sugar and fig. Thin to medium body with a slick texture. Lively fizz. Very sweet and flavoursome.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2016
at 15:57