Barker Scotch Ale

Formerly brewed at Barker Brew Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Fredonia, New York USA

Serve in Thistle

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April 2004. Wonderful amber to brown beer, with a maple syrup aroma and vanilla. Maple syrup taste with light hops. Abit too light and slightly oily mouthfeel. Called Tata T-Bone Scotch ale at Hunter’ Mtn Brewfest. RIP

(Draught) Pours a deep red body and a thin, white head. Nose is strongly overcome with sweet brown sugar. Nice and sugary with a touch of scotch. Good!

Creamy malt plurality invoking butterscotch, brown sugar and hard toffee...This is an all-malt affair, and I like it...Another apt interpretation of an English style from this brewery...

Chocolate, caramel aroma. Sweet, dark and appealing. Clear dark brown with thin diminishing head. Flavour does not live up to the richness of the aroma - some chocolate, mildly sweet flavour. Not much malty character. A bit thin and light for a wee heavy. On tap at TapNY festival.

TAP NY sample. Dark maple color, big brown sugar-maple-caramel (sugar!sugar!sugar!) nose, nothin' but sweet. Not much malt and no evident hops in the body, very little carbonation. Promising start, little to show for it.

Draft at TAP NY. Officially called "Ta Ta T-Bone Wee Heavy". Mahogany with small tan head. Sweet and malt, with chocolate in the nose. . Thin start with malty middle and a sweet finish. A bit too thin. Smokey notes.

Growler that my friend opened a week before so keep that in mind. Poured a deep mahogany color, thin tan head. Very nice sweet malty aroma, sweet caramel and a bit of smoke. Flavor was much more smoky, a little less sweetness. Decent body but was pretty flat due to it being opened previously. Would love to have this one fresh.