Broughton Old Jock Ale (Cask)

Brewed by Broughton
Style: English Strong Ale
Biggar, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Cask by handpump at Bon Accord, Glasgow (14 Apr 12) - clear dark brown ale, thin tan head, good temperature, fruity hop aroma, sweet, fruity, pleasant, delightful

On cask at The Heriot-Watt Beer Festival. Pours a dark brown colour with a fair beige head. Aroma of caramel, treacle and alcohol. Similar flavours and quite dry to finish. Very nice with mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Lingering alcohol and toffee notes.

Cask @ The Counting House JDW. Medium dark brown colour, good head. Sour vegetable malt aroma. Strong bitter sweet barley malt flavour. Sour aftertaste. Not great.

First tasted this at the Golf Inn, Bishopton in September 1979 and more or less monthly at Tennents Bar, Glasgow up until 2011 when they stopped selling it? Cask, handpump dispense. Dark ruby with amber tints around the edges and a thick creamy buff head. Has a fantastic sweet intense aroma of highland toffee and crispy bacon when on form. Creamy mouthfeel and decent lacing. Pale malt complex gives a strong maltloaf base with soft butterscotch, maple syrup, ripe figs and sometimes a sour pineapple note. There is also a secondary layer of flavours in the aftertaste with salty overcooked cabbage, chewy bacon and dusty hop resins. The finish is warming and powerful with vinous port and damsons coming through in a velvety sweet alcoholic burp. A superb strong Scottish old ale in style and sadly missed at Tennents Bar. Highly recommended.

19th October 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! Draft at the Brew Wharf mini beer festival. Worcester sauce tang, good carbonation. Sweet floral undertones. Nicely joined up. Good stuff!

Cask (handpump) @ The Commercial Inn, 13 Douglas Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, KY12 7EB.

Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, sweet beery, dried berry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet plum - raisin vinegar light notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100206]

Cask @ 3 Judges. Dark orange - ruby red colour, short off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, fruits. Flavour is sour malty, alcoholic, fruity. Slightly sour finish.

Cask, gravity at The Pig’n’Falcon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Amber. Painty malt aroma. Sweet taste with just a little sourness. Sharp bitter finish. Perhaps it wasn’t quite ready.

Cask at Tennents Bar during Ultimate glasgow tasting 1 Dec 07 after hours pub crawl, for years I thought this beer was Old Jack Ale hence the old notes: Poured a copper orange with very little off white head. Aroma was sweet of caramel malt. The aroma flowed straight into the caramel malt taste, had just enough bitterness in the end to keep it balanced.

Cask-conditioned at the Victoria, Clifton, Bristol 3/2/09. Orange coloured with no head. Very sweet, toffee aroma with some earthiness. Flavour was sweet also, with some spice and a strange savoury edge. reminded me of a clean, sanitised version of Blue Anchor Spingo Special. Ok.