Leinenkugels Big Eddy Wee Heavy Scotch Ale

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (Tenth & Blake Beer Co.)
Style: Scotch Ale
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Thistle

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(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a medium cream head. Aroma of raisins, brown sugar, light peat, earth, and caramel. Flavor of roasted malt, raisins, molasses, peat, and bread.

UPDATED: AUG 12, 2012
Name: Big Eddy Wee Heavy Scotch Ale
Date: June 24, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Total Wine, GA
Appearance: clear dark amber, fine beige head
Aroma: rich caramel malt aroma, dry and earthy with just a touch of sweetness
Flavor: rich malt flavor, rich caramel but just a touch of sweetness, peaty, earthy
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours deep ruddy copper with a transient yellowish head. Aroma is lightly smoky roasted malt. Full bodied. Flavor is sweet malt with some mild spice. Maybe a touch of smoke. Or not. There’s a lot of malt - but I don’t find burnt or chocolate. More treacle. I think there’s some floral hop, but am not sure. It is very tasty in a heavy malty sort of way. I’m considering whether this is a smoke tinged barley wine thing. Whatever, it tastes good.

Bottle shared by shigadeyo. Poured dark clear brown color with an average frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy toasted malt and alcohol aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy toasted sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate duration. Good complex brew.

12oz bottle. Poured a mahogany color with an averaged sized head. Caramel, some chocolate, earthy, and a touch of smoke.

Bottle poured a clear reddish brown with a small lasting tan head. Aromas of carmel, toffee, peat smoke, fruittiness and light molasses. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth. Flavors of carmel, toffee, molasses, fruittiness and light peat smoke with a smooth lingering fruity finish.

On tap at BTBF. Pours with a hazed brown hued body with a medium sized tan head that lasts decently well. Aromas are of brown sugar, figs, plums, dark fruit, caramel malt, and dark fruits. Light smokey aromas. Flavors are very smokey, peat, bacon, dark fruits. Light brown sugar, caramel and blue cheese. Fuller mouthfeel, fuller carbonation than expected.

Brown pour, small head. Very malty up front, caramel, brown sugar, fruitcake. Flavor is sweet and malty, back flavors of smoke and slick deliciousness. Really good stuff...

12oz bottle: pours a clear deep copper mahogany with a thin-lacing froth of tan head. Has a sweet toasty caramel malty nose with a touch of light fruits and mild peat. Starts with decent fullness and light carbonation with some toasted caramel sweetness and light fruity tartness before a drier earthy finish. Would be better without the tartness, but is still a good attempt at the style.

Pours clear mahogany with a finger of tan head. Nose is roasty slightly rauchy scotch malt, earthy, hoppy, with some dark fruit and plasticy notes. Tastes rich, with a huge scotch malt bill, oaky notes, dark fruit, and some spirity plasticy hints. Waters out late. Not bad, but not a world beater.