Cooper Project No. 1: Scotch Ale
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Series Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Goose Island Brewhouse, Chicago. Sweet, foamy and slightly stuffy with some syrupy malts, caramel, bourbon, toffee and oak. Sweet and malty.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
(Tap) clear, fluorescent bright reddish amber colour with a small, beige head; aroma of toffee, wet wood, red currant; thick palate; balanced flavour with a long, light tart finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - clear ruby - nose of caramelized sugars and light bourbon barrel - flavor is rich but simple maltiness, light alcohol warmth, light earth and wood - it's not bad at all, just rather simple for a style that can be loaded with malt complexities.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, Belmont Beverage in South Bend. Pours reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is barrel, sour hay, caramel, chocolate, dark fruit. Flavor is sweet caramel, barrel, alcohol, honey, bourbon. Doesn't blow me away.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Craft Brewed. Pours a clear, deep molasses colored copper with a finger of beige head that dissipates quickly. Almost no lacing. Wood aromas with toasted sweet caramel malt, fall fruit, fig and plum aromas with a touch of vanilla. More vanilla and booze on the palate and fall fruit. Lingering sweet malt, bourbon character isn't really there...some oak and vanilla notes, maybe though. Underwhelming.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
4 oz taster at Standard Market for Repeal Day. Light brown color, just a bit of haze, and a thin layer of foam collecting to the edges. Smell has a bit more sugar than it does bourbon, at first sniff. But the taste delivers a nice impression of bourbon; not as strong as a barley wine, but that’s the territory it’s eyeing covetously. There’s only a slight note of peat, and maybe only because I’m looking for it, but a deep roast barley. There’s enough of this glass to let the beer resolve into a nice Scots Whiskey taste, just without the heady alcohol smell.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled from the tap at Happy Gnome. Pours a clear bronze with a what head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has a nice bourbon note with with sweet grains and a bit of bread. Flavor has sweet grains, a touch of sweet fruit and a nice bourbon note backing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at beer basement. Aroma of lucious bourbon, raisin, ripe fruit, cherry and vanilla. Rich taste of delicious bourbon vanilla, raisin, ripe fruit,cherry, molasses and a nice raisiny bourbon vanilla finish. Absolutely fantastic.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy deep amber to brown with a small tan head. Aroma is caramelish and toasted malty. Sweet, caramelish. Slight toasted. Breadish and roasted malty. Lingering dark malty and caramelish finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle from Breeze-Thru. I figured it was appropriate to tick a "Cooper Project" beer while watching Twin Peaks. Dark reddish amber, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of toffee, oak, pepper. Not much bourbon. The taste is vanilla, whiskey, caramel, toffee. Medium bodied. Tasty.