Wee Heavy
Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
6.67
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
2007 bottle at RedOak. Dark cola brown, coat of beige head with nice lacing. Very fine peated aroma with seaweed, dark sugars, amontillado sherry, caramel. Tastes along much the same lines. Quite peaty and smokey; dried fruit with the caramel. Rather sharp bitterness. Fine aroma but that little bit of sharpness and oxidation with the bitterness doesn’t quite work at the end. After the sharpness fades, a long, dry, peaty, kind of oaky finish. It’s pretty good. Still a little overcarbonated even though it’s from 2007 and pretty boozy too. Complex and clearly has some improvement left in it.
Davros (5279) reviewed Wee Heavy from Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Dark copper pour with a big creamy lasting head.Nose shows dark grapes, plums, chocolate, roasted grains, smoke, peanuts (???) and, unfortunately, some old cheese and Vegemite!Lots of sweet caramel upon tasting, along with some smoky, earthy peat and quite a strong tangy note, as found in green apples (acetaldehyde?).Carbonation is nice and creamy, but the body is on the watery side for such a malty beer.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Wee Heavy from Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle. No head, dark reddish brown. Peaty, malty aroma. Oily mouthfeel with light carbonation. Taste dominated by dark roast malt and strong peat flavour. Hints of chocolate, toast, pears. Fairly bitter. Overall an interesting beer and well worth trying, but a bit unusual.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Wee Heavy from Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 25 cl) Pours a slightly hazy, dark amber with a small, off-white head. Distinct smoked aroma. Fairly solid body with plenty of roasted malts and again this distinct smokiness - more than I have ever encountered in any other Scotch Ale. Comes through rather sweet without much bitterness. Perhaps the smoke is a bit too much making it a bit off balance. Thanks to Carina and Pia for bringing me this rare treat. 150906
omhper (44752) reviewed Wee Heavy from Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled (2005 vintage) Dark ruby, clear, small creamy head. Smokey with thick malty body. Soft and somewhat buttery, lightly syrupy mouthfeel. A full bodied malt accented beer, low on bitterness, where the alcohol adds some peppery notes.