Big Sound
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.45
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Big Sound Scotch Ale is dedicated to our good buddy Gino, the most punk rock bagpiper you’ll ever meet, and the rest of the men and women of Tampa Bay Pipes and Drums. Brown in color, Big Sound has huge notes of dark sweet toffee with underlying mild notes of coffee in the aroma. The flavor starts with a slight note of cherry and then opens into a Goliath of a malt character with notes of dark sweet toffee, slight hints of coffee and mild notes of toasted bread in the finish. Big Sound Scotch Ale pairs well with Haggis, Highland Games, Huge Heads and Enormous Pillows and of course Bagpipe music.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle from Beergium. Dark brown, cola coloured beer with very small and quickly vanishing head. Aroma has strong flavors of dark malts, bread, raisins and ripe fruits; plum mostly. Taste has malts, caramel, raisins, some ripe fruits and warming alchocol & sugar at the end. Moderate sweetness, medium carbonation and body. Reminds me a bit of stronger Belgium ales. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2017
at 11:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 650 ml from Beergium. Shared with rest at the grand tasting 11/2016. Pours dark brown with small tan head. Average to heavy malty, roasty, caramel, some dark fruit, nutty. Moderate sweetness, medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2017
at 07:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle (from beergium). Pours dark brown. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruits, raisins. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, burnt sugar, fruits, raisins, malt. Finish is malty. Covers alcohol well. Overall: very good.. --- Beer merged from original tick of Big Sound on 16 Apr 2019 at 14:20. Original review text: bl, ettevalmistus MBCC-ks :)
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 18:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
[5/13/16] Draught sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016. Blue session. Dark brown. Aroma of caramel, dark fruits. Sweet flavor, caramelly, with dark fruits, nutty notes. Medium to full-bodied, quite rounded.
Tried
on 27 May 2016
at 10:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016, Copenhagen - dark brown coloured pour with beige head. Medium sweet malty aroma and taste, toasty, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, dried fruity notes, sweet malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2016
at 15:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at CBC 2016. Dark caramel with a tan head. Caramel, dark fruit, dried fruit and cocoa. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2016
at 09:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
CBC2016. Trübes orange braunes Bier mit einer geringen beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch röstmalzig, Schokolade, süß. Geschmack nach roten Früchten, dunkles Malz, bourbon, Karamell.
Tried
on 14 May 2016
at 00:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap@ CBC 2016. Deep brown, thick off white head. Dark fruits, plums, bread, molasses. Flavor has dark bread, molasses, dark fruits. Balanced. Bit heavy.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 May 2016
at 10:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep mahogany pour that has rich garnet highlights under dense, mocha head. Aroma of dark caramel and molasses. The flavor has some caramel sweetness but isn’t overly so. Some roast malt and a hint of licorice. Big bodied tasty sipper.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2016
at 16:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle from 2012. Pours clear deep chestnut, small tan head, dissipates to a ring with decent lacing. Aroma is malty, dark sugars and coffee indeed dominate. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter, hugely malty, toffee, toasted caramel, marshmallow, coffee, hint of chewing tobacco. Slice acidity bites at the sweetness a bit. Some dates and figs in there as well. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Some ABV burn on the finish. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2015
at 20:14