Honey Wee Heavy Strong Scotch Ale
Jama Craft Brewery in Chorvátsky Grob, Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
5.35
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Jan. ’16. A 0.33 l bottle from 100 piv, Bratislava. It poured hazy copper body without head. Light butter, toasted malt, caramel and alcohol in aroma. Flavor was lightly bitter herbal with caramel, but with meat, butter and parsley, too. If I added carrots we’d get a soup, yay! Totally wrong on many levels. Another unsuccessful attempt that shouldn’t be bottled and released!
Or this very bottle was sold maybe as a brewer’s joke directly to me, knowing I’ll take it to Croatia for tasting. Jama - a pit in Croatian, conveniently situated in Chorvatsky Grob - Croatian grave :) Wee, heavy!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 19/02/2016, at tiong’s tasting, thanks rosenbergh, 20160109) The beer poured amber and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had sourness and caramel. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were sweetness, sourness, berries and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet and sour. This was like a poor attempt to brew an oud bruin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
33cl bottle from MisoW, thanks! Pours deep amber with a thick white head. Fermented berries, strawberries, some honey in aroma. Flavor has sweetness, strawberries, fermented berries. Quite dull, feels off. Drinkable but expected something quite different
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Shared bottle at ExABC thanks to Maakun. Caramel brown with diminished head. Sweet caramel malts, honey, leather, dusty cardboard, light gumball coating, old hops. Werters-Echte snoepjes. Over medium sweet, medium bitter. Very low carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Honey Strong Scotch Ale on 21 Nov 2017 at 15:38 - Score: 6. Original review text: 3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle shared at a tasting. Very thin ring white head. Clear amber pour Lots of honey in the aftertaste. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared, thanks (?) to Santa Gurthnar. Slight hazy deep golden to Amber with small off white head. Strong honey, sweet malts, musty dough and nuts, strong butterscotch, toffee. A bit musty and alcoholic, but otherwise decent aromas. Medium sweet and light bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Don’t get all the low ratings, this is quite decent, it has a lot of butterscotch but it actually works here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of heavy, shared with him and Marko. Dark golden/pale amber coloured, small off-white head, butter (diacetyl) in the nose. Toffee, yeast, butter and herbs with notes of alcohol and slightly acidic finish. Simply not good. Why???...they should ask themselves.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Thanks heavy for bringing this from Bratislava! Brownish amber body, hazy. Slightly off white head. Vague diacetyl, big caramel, malty. Meaty, dry taste, vaguely grainy, trace honey. Completely unappealing, bad mild bitterness. This is completely godawful. Something here went wrong, it was likely the recipe. Or bottling issues. Almost flat too. Some burn near the end. I’m really sad I have to give this low a score for a beer that, apart from some diacetyl has no actual major flaws - but just doesn’t work. And from a brewery I actually like a lot.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
330ml bottle
Pours dark orange with a tiny head. Aroma of earthy malts, caramel, hints of honey, off notes. Taste is sweetish, earthy and grainy with some hints of honey and off notes. Finish is mildly sour and sweet with hints of honey and grainy notes. Feels a bit off.