Canaster Winterscotch
Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren in Erpe-Mere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.14
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Brown color with reddish hints, medium brown/white head.
Fruit hints of raisin and bananas.
Strong, dry dark ale.
Fruit hints of raisin and bananas.
Strong, dry dark ale.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Muddy brown color with caramel and milk chocolate. The mouth is slightly sour with milk chocolate and caramel. Very smooth warming butterscotch finish. Yummy.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2015
at 01:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle purchased at Bottles in R.I. Dirty brown/red color, thin lasting head. Aroma is a hearty dose of Belgian yeast with molasses, and mild spice. Flavor has nice roasted grain, scotch malts, with hints of subdued peat. The yeast really makes a nice addition to this style. The alcohol is totally masked... Wow this is a nice treat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2015
at 17:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured from bottle thanks Adrian. Pours copper color with bubbly thin head. Aromas of caramel and pitted fruits. Sweet herby taste of bread and fruit. Very smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2015
at 17:03
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Dark brown, raisin colored. Aroma is great. dark fruits, wood, smoke, Taste is also good. excellent belgian yeast presence, smokey, light, dark fruits, smoke is subdued. Chocolate finish. this is a solid beer.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2015
at 16:54
5.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml opened with no problems...no gushing.
Hazy to cloudy deep brown, beautiful looking brew complete with a 1 finger of off white foam and pretty lacing.
Smells of candi sugar, pitted fruits, toasted malt that is almost smokie, booze.
Toasted malt and fruits are up front, gets a bit sweet from the candi sugar, an inherent booziness in the taste(heck, it’s called Winterscotch), finishes slightly bitter with more booze.
The foam has subsided but it’s still nice to look at. I see the abv is at 9.5% abv but to me, it drinks stronger and so I need to slow this session and review down a bit.
Initial thoughts are that I’m going to score this on the low side as I have done with most beers of the style, which I am taking as Wee Heavy based on the name/label and how it is listed on the brewery website. Waiting and slowly sipping will perhaps bring out my palate familiarity and maybe something nice will happen to change my mind.
Medium bodied in general, a tad too much carbonation for my palate, the mouthfeel is only okay.
All right, I have given Canaster every chance I can to shine for me and it doesn’t. It’s not a terrible brew, it just does not inspire me to think aboot buying another bottle. Oh well, it has it’s fans and that’s cool.
Hazy to cloudy deep brown, beautiful looking brew complete with a 1 finger of off white foam and pretty lacing.
Smells of candi sugar, pitted fruits, toasted malt that is almost smokie, booze.
Toasted malt and fruits are up front, gets a bit sweet from the candi sugar, an inherent booziness in the taste(heck, it’s called Winterscotch), finishes slightly bitter with more booze.
The foam has subsided but it’s still nice to look at. I see the abv is at 9.5% abv but to me, it drinks stronger and so I need to slow this session and review down a bit.
Initial thoughts are that I’m going to score this on the low side as I have done with most beers of the style, which I am taking as Wee Heavy based on the name/label and how it is listed on the brewery website. Waiting and slowly sipping will perhaps bring out my palate familiarity and maybe something nice will happen to change my mind.
Medium bodied in general, a tad too much carbonation for my palate, the mouthfeel is only okay.
All right, I have given Canaster every chance I can to shine for me and it doesn’t. It’s not a terrible brew, it just does not inspire me to think aboot buying another bottle. Oh well, it has it’s fans and that’s cool.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2015
at 10:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Flaska från SB. Smak och doft av humle, torkad frukt, karamell, belgisk jäst, brunt socker, vinterkryddor med toner av banan och örter. Fina smaker, lagom sötma och god beska.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2015
at 10:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
0,75 flaske fra Belgisk Bryg (tappet 09.11.13 iflg omslagspapiret - en original emallasje,mingen etikett, nøytral flaskekork), delt med Kitty som opptakt til 60-års dagen (ikke min...), på hytta 3.nyttårsdag: ingen champagnesmell men du verden for et champagneskum ut over bordet. Aroma av bær, fiken, svisker, rosin, nellik og karamell. Smaken setter oss i bursdagsstemning, vi skålr og gjør oss klar til en cykeltur til Tivoli, gløgg med mørk rom og fyrverkeri!
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jan 2015
at 17:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Gusher. Copper color with a white head. Aroma and taste of cloves, caramel, yeast and dark fruits. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2014
at 17:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Belgiuminabox. 8.7%. Big gusher. Cloudy brown. Thin, tight, swirly, tan head. Nuts. Milk chocolate. Dark vine fruit. Dried stone fruit. Taste is fruity sweet. Turns nutty dry. Soft, airy, smooth mouthfeel. Finishes dry. Light tart. Stone fruit bitter. Very nice. Shame a glass full ended up on the kitchen floor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2014
at 14:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled @ O.B.E.R. Kerstbierfestival 2014, Essen. Trübes dunkel rötlichbraunes Bier mit einer geringen beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr malzig, Gewürze, Karamell, reife Früchte. Geschmack leicht röstmalzig, reife Früchte, Karamell und Gewürze.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2014
at 15:34