Scotch Ale
The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly Beer) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.01
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Schlafly Scotch Ale is dark and full-bodied, with a big caramel character and a smooth, rich maltiness. This spring-time seasonal is brewed in honor of Scotland’s famous poet Robert Burns.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle - Pours amber and smells of caramel malt and dark fruit. It tastes of sweet malt with ample caramel as it intends. This medium bodied brew is smooth, lightly toasty, and enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2010
at 15:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at Old Chicago in Overland Park, Kansas. Pour is brown ruby with a smallish tan head. Decent lacing as the beer falls. Aroma is caramelly sweet malt with light peat smokiness behind the malt. Taste is the malt, lighter caramel than the nose and a nice flinty peat one top of everything. Nice scotch. Palate is drinkable - on the thin side of medium, the smokiness lingers nicely in the finish and it has fresh lively carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2009
at 09:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Described by STLwill as a light scotch ale, and he is on point with that description. Light malt aroma. Malt flavor, and some brown sugar. Lacks the full flavors or sweet character of better scotch ales.
Tried
on 25 May 2008
at 13:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at the brewpub. This beer is a dark brownish-amber color with a thin light beige head that recedes slowly. Thin rings of lace on the glass. The aroma consists of caramel, peat malt and some dark fruit. Medium, smooth body with a somewhat chewy mouthfeel. Flavors of grainy malt, caramel and mild spices accompany a lightly hoppy undertone. The finish is lightly smoked and malty, with a lightly bitter hops aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2008
at 20:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Nice. A munich-type malt leads off the aroma with a big caramel-toffee melanoidin treat. Flavor is surprisingly dry for all the melanoidins in the nose. Starts with a touch of toffee/molasses, leading into a bit of chocolate, with a medium dry finish that features a light roast. Hardly any hops detectable, just a touch of spice in the nose and balancing bitterness in the finish, as appropriate. A bit over-carbonated. Dark amber color trying to get brown, with a big foaming head.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2006
at 19:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hop in the City: Sweet malts dominate this brew as advertised. More medium body than full. It is smooth enough and enjoyable enough, but doesn’t have the sweet/alcohol kick nor richness of malt I expected in this Scotch ale. Bottle. Small, frothy, diminishing head. Body is a dark brown. Light aroma of roasted grain and some caramel. Hint of peat. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter and lightly acidic. Medium body with a water texture — yet some stickiness in the finish. Lively carbonation. Better than my first exposure to it, but still fairly average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2005
at 09:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled, thanks beerhandy! Dark brown. Aroma of malt and red berries. Sweet and roasty with some toffee. Solid and really malty. Well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2005
at 09:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a nice color... dark brown with a slight reddish tone, but looks to be a little thinner that I would hope for. Head is a nice light lace. Aroma is sweet with a slight fruit scent. Taste is alright, but like a lot of Schlafly’s year round offerings it doesn’t go as far as it could. There is a pleasant sweetness that intermixes with woody caramel and some fruit... but it just doesn’t finish as strongly as I would like. Not a bad scotch ale, but not a great one either. Maybe it is better on tap... I’ll have to try it at the brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Feb 2005
at 23:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours a dark red with a tan head. Aroma is woody and earthy. Flavor is toasted malt and dark fruit. I can taste plums and raisons. Leaves a nice smokey aftertaste. Very tasty!
Tried
from Can
on 09 Apr 2004
at 20:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
What is that I detect, squire? Twigs and berries? Pine needles and moss? Privy tell. A richly complex Scotch Ale. Pours a dark amber/copper, with strong aroma. Malts attack the palate as if reminiscing the lore of Braveheart and his fighting men. This malted charge started with caramely tones and ended with a medicinal quality. A quality ale.
Tried
on 05 May 2003
at 12:52