Black Raven Second Sight Strong Scotch Ale

Brewed by Black Raven Brewing
Style: Scotch Ale
Redmond, Washington USA

Serve in Thistle

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Tap. Pours a dark reddish brown with very small off-white head. Cherry and other fruits in the aroma. Sour apple, and cherry in the flavor. Heavy mouthfeel. Smooth with a high alcohol content. Tastes more like a light Barley Wine. Decent beer, good to warm you in the winter.

Clear amber, large beige head. Aroma of toffee and stone fruit. Taste is nice, solid malty body without being too sweet.

Pours deep mahogany with light cocoa head. Malty aroma but not much on the nose. Nicely sweet and a bit of biscuit. Lingering light sweetness. Nicely balance scotch ale.

Tap at Collins Pub. Dark red amber. Aroma sweet thick amber. Overly sweet sticky caramel flavour. Needs more fermenting or aging.

Brown with creamy beige head.Brown sugar nose.Sweet malt,brown sugar start.Light but noticeable hop finish, mild alcohol heat

Pours a light reddish brown. Almost no aroma. Tastes very mild, relatively sweet with vague hints of hops in the simple finish.

Tap at the brewpub and growler a couple of days later.

Wow! Lovely, lovely malts. This one has perfect mouthfeel, so gloriously flavorful, orchard-fruity, drinking so nice. Can’t understand why it is so badly underrated on the site. Perhaps it is the relatively straight-forward flavors, well-integrated rather than showy, simple rather than overly complex. In any case, I sure enjoyed this one time and again. Not often that a scotch ale is my favorite among a brewpub’s offerings, let alone that I leave with a growler of such, so this seems high praise.

On tap at the brewery. Least favorite of the night. Pours claret, which wasmy favorite part. Could smell barely anything, just a wee bit of sugar. Taste starts very sweet and then changes leaving a bit of a bitter ending.

Draft. Pours a rather pretty reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma is bready malt and a little caramelly. Flavor is complexly malty and bready, with a bit of a raisiny fruitiness. Touch of a alcohol heat on the finish, but over all the 7% is masked. Has a moderate amount of weight to the body and drinks easy.

draft at the brewery. pours a crystal clear dark brown with a loose grayish film on top. mild caramel, brown bread and peat on the nose. creamy medium body, soft carb. brown bread, peat, caramel, and biscuit on the mid palate. peaty, bready finish.