Aiken Scotch Ale Wee Heavy

Brewed by Aiken Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Aiken, South Carolina USA

Serve in Thistle

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A smoky, malty, and robust wee heavy ahd at a tasting from the 64 oz. growler.

Draft at brewer. Deep red almost black pour with a nice tan head. Scent is sweet malts, sugar and light roastiness. Taste is sweet malts and a tinge of smoke.

Nutty brown color. Faint aroma with some sweetness and a little musty. Flavor is more reminiscent of a porter when we are supposed to be in a scotch ale roasty maltiness. Some candi sugar that is a little more true to style.

Pours a light amber color with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, toast, some coffee, roast, and slightly fruity. Flavor is caramel, toast, some roast, grain, fruity, and a bitter spicy finish.

tasting on 5/8/10. dark brown pour with an off white head. light smoke, nut and sweet nose. medium body with sweet caramel notes along with more nuts. sweet finish with dark fruits.

UPDATED: MAR 27, 2010
Name: Wee Heavy
Date: February 26, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear dark brown with ruby edges, fine beige head, heavy lace
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma, balancing earthness, hint of peat
Flavor: dark caramel malt flavor, nice candy sweetness, touch of smokey peat, light bitter finish
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4

Appearance: Pours a nearly clear, dark brown-amberish body with a small-sized, beige-colored head. Smell: Sweet-scented aroma with predominate malty notes of dark caramel cubes, toasted bread, and earthy grains. Notable note of ripe, juicy plums. Slight nuttiness. Taste: Sweet upfront maltiness tasting of dark caramel slathered over crusty dark bread and raw grains. Deep plum-like fruitiness throughout. Additional hits of caramelized sugars with secondary taste of peanut brittle. Modestly bitter midway through. Small, quick hint of yeast prior to the sweetish, warming finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. Very slight chewiness to the mouthfeel. Drinkability: Solid, pleasant, appropriately malt-forward Wee Heavy out of Aiken. Definitely good for a few snifters out of the growler.

Ruby red with off white head and lace. Cherries, sweet malt and a slight earthiness. Abv, sweet caramel, and a nice bitter finish make up the flavor. Medium bodied with good carbonation.

Draft pint at the brewpub. Clear, darkish brown with a small ring of bubbles. Light aroma is earthy toffee. Flavor is molasses, earthy grain, light alcohol, hints of bubblegum. Some musty grass-woodsy bittering also. Medium body is chewy but not syrupy, smooth with light carbonation, and slightly tingly and dryish. Nice drips of lacing left behind.

on tap-pours a light tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-toffee, peat. Taste is lots of peat/smoky, sweet medium malt-toffee, earthy hops, some alcohol. Complex sipper, nice.