Campbells Scotch Ale

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Scotch Ale
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Thistle

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een donker bruine body met een donkerrode schijn en een volle licht bruin getinte head.een nutraal aroma. de taste is iets te flets, net iets te veel water smaak de smaken van hop en mout komen niet echt door, een redelijk zoete palate maar toch ook weer iets te veel suiker smaak die overheerst de rest lichte hint van mais.

This is a review of a brown 25cl bottle, best before 02 Oct 2008, drank on a cold and very wet Jan evening 2008, in Shropshire England. Poured into one of my Gordon’s thistle shaped glasses, well it is a Scotch Ale. It looks grand, a clear and deep ruby red body with a full light brown foaming head. The head soon however fell away. The aroma was of raisins and slightly burnt malty biscuits, very interesting. The flavours were interesting too, again raisins, but this time soaked in alcohol with plums (not a plumb weight), the malty biscuit smell is transfered into a sweeter burnt caramel taste. The beer is a little to carbonated for me and the alcohol tang fills the mouth in the aftertaste a little to much, otherwise it is fine. If the head had stayed and the beer wasn’t so ’fizzy’ I would have scored this really high. The alcohol doesn’t have enough body to work with, it isn’t watery but it just doesn’t sit right, good but not great.

Dark mahogany brown. Malt aroma, slightly metallic. Very rich, creamy malty flavour. Caramel sweetness. Alcohol balances the sweetness well.

From Backlog

head: Small, foamy , off white
Colour: Dark brown
Smell: malty, irony, skunky, grainy, sweet/bitter
Taste: not that bad but just not my cup of tea ... better scotch ales out there. ..

250ml. Pours chestnut with a low, fine, unbudging beige head. Attractive, mushy aroma; fig and muscovado-sprinkled dried fruits; a sweet, saline note like cooked mussel meat; bittering herbs (fenugreek), battered sausage (pronounced). It’s probably all sugar-derived. Flavour is slick and fruity with peppery alcohol, ground Indian seeds, dessicated coconut, figgy notes- rich, drinkable and sneakingly complex. Can feel the alcohol on the tongue but not in the flavour. A minor beauty. And something of a surprise. If it’s one of the most disgusting beers you’ve ever had, drink more beers. A world of disappointment awaits.

Nice colour, but that’s the only good thing about this beer. It’s sweetness is overwhelming. This is one of the most disgusting beers i ever had.

Flaske 0,25l på Le Roy d’Espagne i Brussel 6 Mai 11. Dyp brun. Lavt filmskum. Sterk maltaroma med innslag av røstethet. Smaken er tung røstet malt. Uforanderlig. Kjedelig. Trenger en et slikt øl i Belgia?

25cl bottle. Brown dark wood with a gray, medium head. Nose : Caramel malts, little coffee. Raisins and alcohol. Sip : Creamy body. Sweet caramel followed by coffee notes. Burned toast with a delicate dried fruit layer as the aftertaste. Nice.

Bottled@Chriso’s "Donkey Dork Lord" pre-gbbf shindig. Ambery brown colour with a mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is quite malty, mildly leathery, some toasted notes along with burnt sugar and some slight chocolaty notes. Flavour is very similar with also some slight notes of alcohol noteable. Rather pleasantly balanced.

Bottle at Chriso’s. Red-orange brown color. Caramelly rich malt aroma. Flavor is sweet caramel, very fruity, chewy, too sweet. Not too great. 

Bottle at Chris O’s pre GBBF shindig. Brown pour with a light beige head. Toffee and caramel aroma. Caramel and brown sugar flavour. Sweet, malty finish.