Scotch Irish Session Ale
Kichesippi Beer Company in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
7.01
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
341 stubby bottle.
Subtle british hops, decent caramel malt flavor with a touch of biscuit. Some hoppy bitterness lingers, not a bad session ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Originally rated February 2005. This brew is also called "Dogsbody" by the brewer. It poured a golden colour with a slight amber tint to it. The head was nice and creamy and lacing is intence. The nose was pretty floral and grainy. The mouth was fruity with hints of peach and honey. Slightly bitter, but with a very smooth and creamy finish. An excellent session ale (as its name refers to), and my beer of choice for our poker nights. Always get it in 20L kegs.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap: Golden colored ale with a nice huge foamy white with good retention. Aroma is quite sweet malt as well as floral hops. Taste is very good with a creamy mouth feel followed by nice sweet malts. Body is average and all of this makes it one true session beer, maybe one the best that I had the chance of drinking recently.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Golden amber with a nice white head. Very nice hoppy nose with some sharp, resinous hops in mouth, which lathers the inside of the mouth like shaving cream on your face...Not as sweet as the Welly County...nice creamy body
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Nice clear amber colour with a large dense white head. Slight hoppy aroma with some malt and subtle sweetness noticeable. Medium to light-bodied; Sharp astringent quality with a nice balance. Very subtle flavours lasting a long while dominate the palate. Great to try from, straight from the brewer! I had this bottle at the Winter Party at Oakes' place in Toronto, Canada on 05-December-2003. Many thanks go out to Perry-the brewer of this fine beer who provided a pitcher of this from the trunk of his car!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
1/25/03:I have a firkin of this in my living room. I just poured my second pint. I must pat the cellarman (myself) on the back for a fine job was done. Vibrant amber with just a hint of chill haze (in the middle of a deep freeze, this is to be expected at some point between the brewery and my place). A nice bit of natural foam indicates good condition. I had Perry dry-hop this with cascades instead of goldings (actually, I wanted centennials because they rule, but he didn’t have any). The nose bursts with hop - foresty, lemony - but also contains a nuances of caramel, earth and minerals. The body is light as an ordinary should be. The palate begins with light malty nose mixing with citric undertones, but the balance shifts as the beer crosses the palate. Hops emerge in increasing intensity, leading to a wonderfully bitter flourish at the end. The cascades provide a nice break from the all-out goldings assault, while at the same time the minerally character, easy carbonation and underpinning pale malts lend this a very (southern) English character.
This beer is much better on cask - it needs cellar temperature to really show its form. Dry-hops could be just about anything and you can ask the brewer to customize.