Wee Heavy
Mad Fox Brewing Company in Falls Church, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.73
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A Strong Scotch Ale. This is a very full-bodied, dark rich brew with a sweet malt character of much depth possessing the flavors of toffee, plums and currants. The hop varietal used in such small amount is English First Gold and can be barely discerned. The target gravity for this brew is 20 degrees Plato and hop bitterness of just 14 International Bittering Units, which is a measure of hop content.
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6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Unclear dark black brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, coffee, sour berries, bozzy. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, dark sour berry, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Aug 2011
at 13:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask@GBBF2011. Deep coppery brown colour, small head. Aroma is liquorice, some fudge, mild plum, raisins, leathery notes as well as some slight notes of alcohol. Flavour is raisins, plum, mild toasted notes as well as some nuttyness and slight leathery notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Aug 2011
at 00:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2011. It pours deep brown, with no head. The nose is Dundee fruit cake, sweet malt, brown bread, ginger cake, spice, pear and sweet red apple. The taste is toffee-apple, syrupy caramel, brown sugar, treacle, melon pear and cinnamon, with a sweet finish. Full body, low carbonation and well-hidden alcohol. A decent, sweet "Scotch Ale".
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2011
at 11:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF, 2011. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Licorice toffee and caramel aroma. Nice sweet nose. Licorice, caramel, toffee apple and burnt sugar flavours. Quite meaty. Sweet-malty finish. Quite nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2011
at 12:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is spiced and herbal. Annis seed. Sweet, dark malty and slight yeasty to phenolic. Dry malty and annis seed finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2011
at 09:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
cask at gbbf ... deep black brown ... soft chocolate roast nose ... dark fruits .... figs and plums .... some chocolate ... dark roast ... toffee sweet malts
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2011
at 12:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2011. A dark brown/red coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Sweet, malty aroma. Tastes very sweet to me, malty, caramel, dark fruit, bready. Not bad but overly sweet for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Aug 2011
at 14:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask gravity at Gbbf 2011. Riach very deep red brown colour. Lasting beige head. Thats a barley wine. Some malt sweetness some sweet orange flavours. Touch of dryness on the finish. Warming sipping pleasant strong beer. Its a half decent beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Aug 2011
at 05:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brewpub 4oz pour: Pours a darkish brown woody type color jawn with a whitish head. Aroma is of darkish fruits, toffee and sugar. So let me just say right off that this beer did not piss me off. Scotch ales sometimes piss me off and this was not one of them. It didn’t have that one taste that I find particularly annoying in some examples of this style. In any case, this was a sweet beer with almost no hops. Plenty of fruitiness and candy were to be found. Easy drinking considering its flavor profile. I could have had a whole pint.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2011
at 19:45
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Growler pours a translucent, deep brown with a thin white head. Nose is fairly mild, a little malty, a little sweet, brown sugar. Flavor is sweet, malty, a little fruit. Full bodied, slightly hot. Forgettable.
Tried
from Growler
on 07 Nov 2010
at 11:14