San Diego Scotch Ale
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Ballast Point Brewing CompanyScotch Ale / Wee Heavy Special
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Score
7.64
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Tonight you raise the anchor, take to the seas and charter territories undiscovered by man or beast.
Destroy it all in your wake – the day job, the grind of normality, people’s cardboard cut-out expectations.
Make a beeline for those shimmering, swirling outstretched arms of the unknown and don’t look back.
You are San Salvador.
Navigating the putrid, snapping jaws of life’s great sea monsters on the way to discover your San Diego.
Skim across crests of white to the tune of your own sea shanty before land is finally in sight.
Then you capture and you conquer.
Take this world as your hostage because tonight, there's nothing they can fucking do about it.
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mart (27384) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
From the very old notes, hence this is not a real rating, but more just a mark to myself that I have tried this at one point. Sweet and bitter beer with whisky character and a lot of raisins. Great brew.
Gyllenbock (17521) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Systembolaget, bought in December 2012. Dark brown with a small head. Aroma and taste of dried fruit, malt, port wine, caramel and some rum. The mouthfeel was thick and the carbonation was soft. Warming alcohol in the finish. Still a tasty one.
NilsAS (11458) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Lukt: Mye krydder, rosiner og honning.
Utseende: Brun farge.
Skum/kullsyre: tynt skumm, ring langs kant.
Smak: Krydder, rom, rosiner og honning.
Hvor: Kjøpt@VP Kvadrat, Nydt@Lokal tasting med Bryne.
Medium: Flaske@330ml, ABV@11,9%, Når@24.04.2015
KansaiBeerLovers (8914) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Asahiya. It pours a cloudy deep milky reddish brown with a minimal beige head. The nose is sweet barrel, raisins & malty caramel. Super smooth full body. The taste is oaky maple rum barrel sweetness, raisins and sweet syrupy fruits fantastic taste.
tmrmwel (4604) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, batch 218, enjoyed 2,5 years after bottling. Pours black, with a two finger thick, but fairly quickly receding, mocha head. Aroma is beautifully roasted malts, with dark fruits, bread and toffee, as well as oak barrels with notes of smoke and vanilla. Medium to full body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is deep, dark roasted malts, which at first hits with intense whisky notes, rum raisins, wood and leather, as well as notes kandi, dark fruits, cocoa, coffee, molasses and pleasant boozy notes. Lingering sweet malty finish. I often find scotch beers a bit one dimensional with sweet roasted malts, but this adds interesting and tasteful layers on top of that.
77ships (14509) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Tim needs to get rid of his ticks” Tasting. Enjoyed together with tderoeck, Benzai & Alengrin. Bottled on 05-07-2012. This is one of those rare(r) BrewDog’s that impress. Dark brown, red-hued, little tanned head. Aroma created quite a lot of confussion, lots of different smells in different glasses. 1) Optimal sample: strongly boozy, lots of spirit but high quality spirit, raisin, raisins bread & thick caramel sweet 2) Debatable sample(s): less booze, sweeter, dark fruits & lots of vanilla. Taste is warming, good quality spirit & good oxidation notes, thick caramel sweetness, beautifully oxidized malts, sweet rum, sweet spices, sugar, ripe raisins soaked in alcohol,… Very much a malt beer,… Thick malty body that coats the throat. Quite lovely, a real sipper. It could be a bit more expressive but it is great already.
Benzai (24278) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled from bottle @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Nice medium to dark reddish brown color, medium to full sized beige to light brown head that lasts for a decent while. Aroma and taste are malts, some alcohol, warm dark raisins, bitter, some roast. Medium body and carbonation. Pretty nice!
tderoeck (22679) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as BrewDog / Ballast Point San Diego Scotch Ale (by BrewDog):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
23/I/15 - 33cl bottle @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: n/a (2015-98) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear red brown beer, small aery beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, caramel, vanilla, some chocolate, bit of alcohol, sugary. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: little sour, malty, caramel, some chocolate. Aftertaste: spicy, cinnamon, caramel, little sweet, vanilla.
gunnfryd (21869) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Red brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is alcohol, malt, dried fruits. Flavour is alcohol, malt, hop, dried fruits, rum ,raisin. Full body. Nice, but a little bit boozy.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed San Diego Scotch Ale from BrewDog 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ koelschtrinker Tasting: Leicht trübes sehr dunkel rötlichbraunes Bier mit geringer beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr kräftig malzig, Vanille, Holz, reife Früchte. Geschmack sehr kräftig malzig, Vanille, holzig, reife Beeren, alkohholisch, schwer zu trinken.