Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Can at the DC RateBeer tasting. Dark amber with beige head. Aromas of caramel, dark fruit, malt. Tastes of malt, caramel, toasty notes. Light body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can at the January DC Ratebeer tasting. Poured a poured a relatively clear, kind of dark brown, ruby red color with a small white head. Aroma smells a bit like your standard scotch ale. Sweet malts. Light herbal notes. Very mild toffee.
maniac (11822) ticked Bo's Scotch Ale from Stark Brewing Company 8 years ago
Clear amb bod sml wht head. Spicy toffee arma. Choc roast toffe flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/4/15 3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Smoked peat is big here like Scotland on fire. Caramel. Amber pour with ok head. Can.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a semi-dark rustic copper color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Messy lace.
The aroma had a nice blend of floral hops over top of some caramel/toffee malts with a decent biscuit/breadiness quality sliding in.
The flavor was somewhat malty sweet with a decent bready/biscuit aftertaste. Finishes with a little bit of a light floral hop punch.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it despite being a tad bit higher level in ABV for the style (I didn’t mind).
Overall, pretty nice English pale ale. Might even attract the American crowd to try this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a fairly dark copper color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head. Sly remnants of sticky messy lace.
The aroma had a nice blend of Belgian yeast and sugars, some dark fruits, some red delicious and Cortland apples, light breadiness, apricot and ended with some earthy and grassy hops.
The flavor was basically the same blending the sweet to some light spice, somewhat like clove, perhaps some ginger. Sly aftertaste of the Belgian notes. Finish was slightly sticky.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Mild carbonation. ABV felt good.
Overall, pretty nice Belgian ale fairly close to a real Abbey Dubbel.