BridgePort Brewing Company Highland Ambush Scotch Ale

Highland Ambush Scotch Ale

 

BridgePort Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular Out of Production
Score
6.69
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 13
“First brewed in the 1980s as a special beer for the BrewPub at BridgePort, Highland Ambush is making its triumphant return more than 20 years later. Stuart MacLean Ramsay, then pub manager, conceptualized the brew to pay homage to his Scottish heritage. This year’s Highland Ambush takes inspiration from the original ale using NW pale ale malt along with a Scottish crystal and roast malt. The hopping rate of Highland Ambush has been toned down to help highlight the complementing vanilla from the American oak bourbon barrels and caramel-toffee malt nuances. Reddish-Brown in color, Highland Ambush will warm the coldest of toes and noses this holiday season.
 

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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled 660ml
Bottle from brewpub. Nut brown color, beige head. Toffee, oak, grass, diacetyl Medium-bodied. Toffee, grassy hoppyness, some alcohol. Maybe hints of oak. Not so intensive as expected.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2011 at 11:12


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Amber colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is nutty, sweet maltyness, some alcohol, leather, mild yeast and also some toasted toffeeish notes. Flavour is leather, toffee, fudge, mild yeast, leather and some mild berries, wood and mild alcohol.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2011 at 11:09


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bomber from Total Beverage-Westminster. Nose is toffee, toastiness, vanilla, and very light oaky bourbon. Clear rusty red with a medium beige head. Flavor is vanilla, bourbon, toffee, light sweetness, very light bitterness, with a light bourbon finish.

Tried on 11 Oct 2011 at 20:49


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

More of a Scottish ale here - pours a hazy amber - earthy, peaty nose, with a bit of oak, metallic/copper character, bright fruitiness and fairly strong vegetal notes - body is thin and watery - dry and earthy flavor, with some dirt and peat - oak through the middle is potent and borderline bitter - a bit of vanilla on the tail end - a hint of the maltiness that could have been comes in the finish - pretty bad, really.

Tried on 04 Mar 2011 at 18:34


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Shipped to me by my wife on a trip to Portland this beer poured a dark brown color with a medium sized tan head that faded and produced some lacing. the aroma was bourbon, brown sugar, caramel, nut and vanilla. The flavor was malty and sweet with notes of nut, caramel, brown sugar and vanilla. The finish was long and malty with vanilla and bourbon lingering. Fairly full bodied. Nice.

Tried on 14 Aug 2010 at 15:19


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Dark amber beer with a light cream colored head. Sweet malt aroma with light mineral and light grass. Grain and malt flavor with caramel, light bourbon, light grass, and light mineral. Medium bodied. Grain and malt lingers with caramel, light grass and light bourbon.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2010 at 12:08


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Brown,small thick lasting head.Nose is light malt and faint alcMalt palate is bland and thin for the style, . Very faint lingering hops More of a Scottish than a Scotch

Tried on 28 May 2010 at 17:43


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle: Pours a lighter chestnut brown with a modest creamy beige head. Nice bits of sticky lacing. Aroma is weak; peaty, malty, and hints of wood. Some peat, caramel, and chocolate in the taste before a bland barrel aged note takes over. Sort of a weak, stale whiskey thing. Not real good.

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2010 at 07:17


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle pours out a dark mahogany topped with a small head. Aroma of sweet malts. Plenty caramel and toffee along with a light hop ring. Taste was much of the aroma lots of sweetness and thick malts. Not to bad.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2010 at 18:21


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Poured dark red with medium creamy head. Little lacing. Malty aroma with toffee notes. Malty flavour with a bit of vanilla from the barrel and a tiny bit of smokiness. Malty finish without being sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2010 at 16:57