Blackfriar
Inveralmond in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 🏴
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.65
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A dark brew, hardy and warming with a slightly sweet malty character balanced by a pleasant hoppiness. Blackfriar is known as a 'wee heavy'. Whilst not an international classification this term has been used in Scotland for generations to describe strong ales
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle - Pours amber with a lingering off-white head and lots of big, suspended yeast flakes. There’s a fruity, caramel malt aroma. It has a fair amount of hops bitterness in the flavor to go with all that fruity caramel sweetness. This brew is medium bodied and enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2010
at 18:33
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Poured a light brown color ale with a nice foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma consists of grain and cereal with some dry notes and limited sweetness. Taste is also dominated by dry cereal with lightly unrefined grain notes and minimal residual sugars. Body is about average with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. A bit too dry and grainy for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2010
at 09:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask @ Scottish Real Ale Festival 2010. Slightly hazy colour, off-white head. Aroma is fruity, hoppy bit of caramel malts. Flavour is malty, caramel, fruity, hoppy, a bit yeasty. Very good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jun 2010
at 13:52
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Courtesy of Blazer06. It pours clear copper with tan head. The aroma is full and fragrance counter perfuminess, spices, earthy gravel like sweetness (?) – strange. The taste is similar with the nose notes mixing with some crystal malts and folding into pine hops. Odd brew.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2010
at 16:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Orange amberish pour with floral spruce and maple resin nose. Flavor is bitter sweet hop and malt. Rated 2/26/05
Tried
on 03 May 2010
at 20:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Light unclear medium orange amber color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, sweet malt, light to moderate hoppy, citrus - orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100313]
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2010
at 13:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to jkwalking05. Pours a murky brown body with a small off-white head and some particles. Aroma of dates, raisins, alcohol and caramel. Flavor is papery, dirt, alcohol and dark fruits. Light bubbles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2010
at 10:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: Hazy, amber coloured, big stable rocky off-white head, sticking to the glass; deep and solid sweet fruity (dried fruits) and caramelly nose with hoppy and alcoholic spots; solid sweet-bitter flavour, medium to full bodied; increasing hoppiness in the drier fruity-malty finish with a lingering hoppy aftertaste. Great, well balanced stuff.......
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2010
at 04:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark amber brown liquid decent lacing. The nose is sweet and a tad simple. It’s good, but it’s a fairly plain caramelized malt scent. The flavor is really nice. I’m not a big fan of Scottish ales, but this is an enjoyable beer. It’s not too sweet but still strong and rich. The flavor reminds of a doppelbock, which I mean as a compliment. The feel is smooth and fairly creamy with only prickling on the back of the tongue.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2010
at 15:04
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Murky chestnut colored with a very large light tan head that evaporates quickly and leaves nice lacing. Nutmeg and cinnamon, with scotch and malt. Starts sweet and progresses to spice then bitterness. Somewhat complex, with a nice combination of spices. Very full bodied, yet does not show its alcohol. Overall a nice scotch style ale, good on a cold winter’s day.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2009
at 15:45