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Heather Ales Ebulum

Heather Ales Ebulum  - Traditional Ale

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 Percentile 
85
overall
Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Traditional Ale

Alloa, Central, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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5843.46/5.03.45/5.06.5%85.1Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard
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Commercial Description:
Bottled. A cask version at 5.8% is produced in October and November.
"Elderberry Black Ale"
Introduced to Scotland by Welsh druids in the 9th Century, elderberry black ale was part of the Celtic Autumn festivals when the "elders" would make this strong ale and pass the drink round the people of the village. The recipe was taken from a 16th Century record of domestic drinking in the Scottish Highlands. Elderberries were used for many natural remedies to cure sciatica, other forms of neuralgia, influenza and rhumatism as they contain tannins and fruit oils.
Ebulum is made from roasted oats, barley and wheat boiled with herbs then fermented with ripe elderberries.
A rich black ale with fruit aroma, silky soft texture,soft roasted flavour and gentle finish.
Recommended with stewed and baked foods.
Drink lightly chilled from a straight glass.
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 redlight (1445), Winter Park, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Jun 19, 2007  
Stout-like aroma, chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. Pours black with a good head. Smokey smooth, very drinkable, porter or sweet stout-like.


 bhensonb (4182), Woodland, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/513/20
Jun 16, 2007  
Aroma of sweet berry and light roasted malt. Very dark brown color with ruby hilites. Beige head that laced mildly as it flattened. A bit thin bodied. Very smooth. Something like a porter with a bit of coffee. The berry is pretty overpowered by the roasted malt. The finish is basically roasted malt with a bit of bitter of some sort.


 oh6gdx (8795), Vasa, Finland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jun 16, 2007  
Bottled. Pitch black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is berries, wood, roasted malts. Flavour is sweetish roasted malts along with some wooden hints. Some berries and other stuff when it gets warmer.


 TBone (6675), Pori, Finland
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 16, 2007  
Bottled (BB 06/2008)
Pitch black color, small off-white head. Herbal and wheaty aroma with roasted coffee notes. Porter-like flavor: toasted malts, slightly sweet (berries) and then some herbal notes - I really can’t say what they are (or is it elderberry). Interesting and even quite drinkable.


 MesandSim (5790), London, Greater London, England
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jun 14, 2007    Updated: Jul 29, 2007
A Mes rate: Bottled from a bar in Manchester round the corner from This and That. Black and opaque with a tan head. Complex brew with dark malt, vanilla, lovely smoky peaty notes, very Scottish. A little barley in there too. Bitter hoppy finish balances it out really well. Great stuff.


 LinusStick (1830), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/514/20
Jun 9, 2007  
Heather Ales makes some wierd beers and this is no different. I don’t even know what the eff an elderberry is but I don’t like it. Pours a dark black with no head. Looks old.Aroma of dark fruit. Tastes like old dirty wine with sand in the bottom. All dark fruit and heavy carbonation. I won’t be trying any elderberries anytime soon.


vadersnightcap (80), Scotland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/104/514/20
Jun 8, 2007  
Bottled. ebony coloured beer with a thick lasting dark tan head. Aroma of vanilla, elderberry, light roasted barley Flavour is malty, coffee, cola, floraly, fruity berry aroma. finish is also flowery and a bit roasty. enjoyable beer


 JorisPPattyn (5155), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Jun 6, 2007  
Dark brown-beige, thick and large head; collapsing over near-black beer. Slight coffeeish nose, bit sweetish, some liquorice and roasted malts. But as to fruitiness... Soft, sweet stout. Retronasal finally the sweetness gets some fruity, indeed even berry-ish flavour, but it is immediately put down again in the throat by the coffeeish roasted malts, that win over and slowly fade. Medium bodied. Seems to get a little bit of tannines, by the drying-out effect. A beer has to carry the fruits, when added. I’m not an elderberry expert, but either they’re very discreet, or have simply been used to scarcely. In any way, a sweet liquorice stout demands a forceful fruit antagonist. Might it be that the Heather brewers have lost faith in outspoken tastes? Thanks Craig, another completely new one to me.



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