Apollo Scottish Strong Ale

Brewed by Bryggeriet Apollo
Style: Scottish Ale
Copenhagen, Denmark

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Draft sampled at the brewpub. Pours hazy brown with a cream colored head. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, light cocoa and fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter. A strange aftertaste that I can’t place spoils it. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

On tap at the brewpub, shared. Thick creamy white head. Clear amber pour. A bit sour. Not great.

From the tap @ Apollo Bryggeriet. Pours clear dark chestnut, lightly carbonated with a white head. Slightly sweet caramel malt aroma. Malty with a touch of citrus. Light carbonation explodes gently on the tongue.

Draught at the brewpub. Clear amber/copper beer with a lasting beige head. Malty sweetish aroma, bready, fruity, sugary, grapes and pears. Malty fruity flavor, roasted notes, caramel, toffee, some alcohol. Thin bodied, fruity finish with butter and some vinous notes.

(on tap @ Bryggeriet Apollo) Pours a clear, dark amber with medium, tan head and lively carbonation. Good retention and lace. Aroma is malt with notes of toffee and a hint of smoke. As the beer warms some less savoury notes emerge that seemingly resemble cabbage. Oily texture, medium body and a lingering, slightly bitter finish. Flavour is a bit off with some slightly acidic notes and the toffee profile is not distinct. I appreciate getting a chance to taste this relatively rare style but I’m not sure this one is representative of what the style has to offer.

Draught @ Bryggeriet Apollo, Vesterbrogade 3, 1620 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Clear medium orange amber colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, moderate hoppy, light orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, caramel, toffee, dry, hoppy, moldy ! Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130107]

250ml, 6.2% abv, on tap at Apollo. Decent white, lacing-head to a clear amber coloured body. Aroma of caramel and dark bread with notes of hops. Flavour of caramel and fruity hops, mid-sweet. Bittersweet ending. Medium bodied. Tasty (Copenhagen, 20.03.2013).

On tap. Pours an almost clear warm amber with a creamy off-white head. Tart aroma, notes of caramel as well. Medium-bodied, sweet caramel and then again a light berry-like tartness. No real bitterness but some warming late alcohol. Unclean. 070113

Draught. Low crealy lasting white head. Very dark clear brown body. Sweet caramel bisquit roasted malt berries aroma and flavor with little hops bitterness. Low carbonation and short sweet finish.

Draft at Sct Clements, Aarhus. Pours a hazy medium amber with golden highlights and a loose white head. Malty caramel and butterscotch nose. Slick medium body. Soft carb. Caramel and butterscotch mid palate. Tangy finish. They need to rethink everything about how they manage yeast and ferment at this place.