Champion Double Ale
Broughton Ales in Broughton, Scottish Borders, Scotland 🏴
Scottish Ale Regular|
Score
6.70
|
|
Award winning, rich, roasted, smoky & malty
Sign up to add a tick or review
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Aldi. Clear ruby body with a thin beige head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of brown sugar, toffee, coffee and fig. Flavour of caramel, stewed berries and treacle. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. A tasty brew - rich and warming. This is the best Broughton beer I’ve tasted. I’m surprised this isn’t rated much higher than it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2019
at 22:14
7.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Dark brown with a good white head. Caramel, chocolate and dried fruit notes in both aroma and flavour. Decent
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2019
at 00:58
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2017
at 15:15
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Tesco Corstorphine. Pours deep brown, nose is chocolate and dark fruits, taste is similar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2015
at 01:46
6.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml Bottle, best before the end of Dec 2011, poured into a vase shaped ’Old Speckled Hen’ badged pint glass on 29 Nov 2011. Dark cola coloured body, or a ruby red looking beer if you’d prefer. The head a thin covering of tight bubbles, off-white in colour. Chocolate malty aroma, no hops in the nose that I could find, some pine nut hints though. Strange taste combination, chocolate malts like the smell, with a fizzy pop (coke) flavour in the mix, I’m struggling to describe this too well: but it’s a blend of two brews which to me don’t go together as well as the brewery might have wanted it too. As mentioned above, not sure what the brewer wanted from this beer: interesting, different and drinkable, but just lacking something I can’t put my finger on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2012
at 06:40
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is raisin malt. Taste Smoky, dark fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2011
at 14:32
6.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours opaque black with a decent cream head. The nose is a mixture of mild chocolate and biscuit flavours. The taste confirms that this is somewhere between a bitter and a stout. The palate is medium to rich in structure and texture and the finish is not bad - it kind of cleans. Overall, not bad but a bit ’caught between styles’ for me.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2011
at 08:52
7.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Tesco Danestone, Aberdeen. It pours dark ruby-brown, with a thin foamy beige head and low carbonation. The nose is bitter chocolate, sweet dark fruit, apple and coffee beans. The taste is bitter chocolate, coffee, blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, currant, apple, toffee and burnt malt, with some dryness in the finish. Nice balance of flavours. A very tasty brew indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2011
at 09:08
6.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty chocolate and caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with hints of chocolate. Has a fruit malty caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2011
at 07:38
6.9/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Peckhams. Dark brown colour, small beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, fruits. Flavour of roasted malts, dark fruits. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2010
at 14:11