Scotch
Brouwerij De Vlier in Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
6.57
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Ingredients : Water, Malted barley, wheat malt, oat flakes, Sugar, Hop Saaz, High yeast, Energy : 314 kJ/75 kcal per 100 ml
AT LEAST consumable till 5 years after bottling date
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
2/VII/21 - 75cl bottle from Geers, shared @ Gentse Biervereniging lambiektasting pt. 2, BB: +5Y bottled: 14/VII/20 (2021-563)
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: metallic start, very malty, caramel, grains, soft roast, some chocolate, yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty roasted, bitter, metallic, yeast, a bit spicy, rather unpleasant, meh. Aftertaste: yeasty, bitter, very roasted, weird and not very nice.
Gurthnar (14451) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at a tasting with the RB boys. Medium-med-thin body, med-high carbonation. Rich maltiness, combines a bit of roasty astringency, coffee, a bit of bready, toasty character. Good but not great.
cuso (17193) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Slovak tasting may2021. Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma of dark malt, chocolate, caramel, toffee. Taste, dark malt, coffee, light astringency.
Wendigo (6329) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at tasting. Malty aroma and taste, roasty notes, light sourish notes, medium bitter. Medium to full body, malty roasty bitter finish. Average.
lakatoske (2017) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Black color with medium beige head. Aroma: toffee, coffee, caramel, roasted malt. Taste: roasted malt, coffee, sour notes. Full body, moderate carbonation, moderate bitterness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Scotch from Brouwerij De Vlier 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
De Vlier’s take on this – in Belgium – once popular style, inspired by the originally Scottish wee heavy (or indeed identical with it) and in itself the source of inspiration for many traditional Belgian Christmas beers. Nice to see a new one of these pop up – ‘old school’ is an understatement here… Membrane-lacing, yellowish beige, medium sized, breaking but generally well-retaining head over an initially clear ruddy bronze-brown beer with burgundy hue, misty with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel but without the sweetness, ferrous spring water, dry tea bags, clove, nutmeg, dark green tree leaves, beech nuts, vague whiffs of apple-flavoured pipe tobacco, toasted brown bread, green bell pepper, iron, elderberry syrup, damp earth, rosehip. Rounded, clean onset, sweetish but notably restrainedly so for the style, hints of apple peel and medlar, some green banana perhaps; minerally, active carb, vaguely metallic edges surrounding a very smooth, bit glueish, very caramelly malt body with a walnutty side accent, developing the expected toasted bitter accent towards the finish. This toasty aspect, typically soft for a Scotch, is accompanied by a herbal, tea- and rosehip-tinged hop bitter note as well as clove and nutmeg impressions lingering around at the back; some warming, but generally relatively well-hidden ‘jenever’-like alcohol rounds things off. Indeed an old-fashioned Belgian style Scotch in all respects: ticks all the boxes and feels clean and focused, initially (before the sediment is added) even as clean as John Martin’s Gordon Finest Scotch, by far the best known example still alive today. Mission accomplished, though in this day and age, it must be possible to draw more out of this style than just a perfect copy of what it was like decades ago…