Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle) 3.2 848

Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle)

	Percentile
	66
	overall

Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Traditional Ale
Alloa, Central, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
848	3.21/5.0	3.2/5.0	5%	52.7	Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

Commercial Description:
Bottle: Filtered
Brewed in Scotland since 2000 B.C. heather ale is probably the oldest style of ale still produced in the world. From an ancient Gaelic recipe for "leann fraoich" (heather ale) it has been revived and reintroduced to the Scottish culture.
Into the boiling bree of malted barley, sweet gale and flowering heather are added, then after cooling slightly the hot ale is poured into a vat of fresh heather flowers where it infuses for an hour before being fermented.
A light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt charachter, a spicy herbal flavour and dry wine like finish.
Recommended with rich and Spicy foods.
Drink slightly chilled from a fluted glass.

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gws57 (1151), Saint Charles, Illinois, USA

3.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.2	6/10	3/5	6/10	3/5	14/20

Sep 9, 2006

Had this one bottled (thanks Arnie!). Deep golden straw pour with a lacy white head, sweet bread in the nose, quite sweet with notes of clover honey and gin. Not great, but not bad.

fonefan (11982), VestJylland, Denmark

3.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.1	6/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	14/20

Sep 9, 2006

Bottle. Pours a golden colour with a small white head. Fruity spicy aroma. Sweet malty spicy flavor with some herbal hints. Sweet malty finish.

thornecb (1820), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA

2.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.9	6/10	3/5	6/10	2/5	12/20

Sep 8, 2006

Pours amber into a shaker. Head from agressive pour quickly recedes to skim surface. Floral aromas. Flat with front to back bread and hay. Nothing redeeming - but not a drain pour - finished because I knew I wasn’t going to get my money back.

bitbucket (2036), Kirkland, Washington, USA

3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3	6/10	3/5	5/10	2/5	14/20

Sep 7, 2006

Bottled. Pours a hazy light amber with a thin white head. Floral aroma with some wood/peat, fruit and honey spice. The body is medium with light carbonation. The taste is sweet with fruit and bisquit augmented by the same tastes as the aroma. A bit of spice on the finish.

thomat (666), Göteborg, Sweden

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	13/20

Sep 2, 2006

Hazy golden color with a thin white head. Malty, friuty and flowery notes. Medium body with a sweet aftertaste.

DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	15/20

Aug 29, 2006

Bottle from Super Saver. Pours somewhat hazy deep golden/dark straw with 1-finger, creamy, perfectly uniform off-white head. The aroma is bready malty, with some honey-toned malt, fruit, and honey. The taste is malty and piney, with some hops, honey, apricot, and a sprucy note. Medium palate that is smooth and fairly complex. Gets flowery and morepiney as it warms. This one is underrated by half a point or so, and well worth seeking out. Get ya some!

Arnie (272), Chicagoland, IL, Illinois, USA

3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3	6/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	13/20

Aug 27, 2006

From a bottle, a clean pour that’d gooden with a thin head. Thick falor, the flor taste of the heather comes through as hints of mead: milk and honey. Oddly flat, nearly no carbonation. Flat flavor finish, as well.

anders37 (4796), Malmö, Sweden

2.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.6	5/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	10/20

Aug 22, 2006

Cask @ GBBF 2006. Pours a golden colour with a small white head. Fruity spicy aroma. Sweet malty spicy flavor with some herbal hints. Sweet malty finish.

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