New England Wet Willy Scotch Ale

Brewed by New England Brewing Co.
Style: Scotch Ale
Woodbridge, Connecticut USA

Serve in Thistle

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Poured amber/brown color. Aroma is intense alcohol, sweetness, hay, and leather? Taste is very earthy rich and malty with a huge alcohol presence and near cloying sweetness. Unpleasant.

Rich malty scotch ale, dense and rich. Actually tasty but not very drinkable

Bottle; cloudy orange with small beige head; aroma-wood, oak, caramel, sweet; taste-heavy sweetness, medium bitterness, warming alcohol feel, full body, sticky, average carbonation. Complex aroma, too sweet

bottle... really light scotch, medium bright brown with a bit of orange, light tan head... generic malt almost wort like aroma, not bad but plain... the taste is equally boring, alcohol is well hidden but i’m unimpressed

500 ml bottle thanks to cletus. Pours a hazy orange amber color with a small off white head. The aroma has sweet caramel malts, some ripe fruit and some boozy alcohol. The flavor has the sweet caramel/toffee and ripe plums, but is again a bit too boozy. I keep getting some hops in the flavor mid palate to the finish which creates some bitterness. This was definitely different than most Scotch ales I’ve had. Worth trying.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown/reddish color with a beige head. Aroma is of dark fruits, breadiness, light alcohol notes, caramel, toffee and sugary notes. The flavor is again filled with dark fruits like raisins and prunes, sugary notes, almost brown sugar like, caramel, toffee, some alcohol and breadiness. The body is full with a sticky mouthfeel. Overall a pretty nice Scotch Ale, but a bit too much booze in there, and I would have liked a little peat too.

500mL Bottle. Rich, boozy aroma. Clean and malt-driven, in a distilled kind of way. As if this has been scotch-barrel aged, but not exactly. Flavors have that terse boil caramelization edge that keeps it seemingly dry. I think there’s more hop presence here, both as some fresh juicy aroma and flavor, brambly, but also as a slight dusty aged hop character that sets it off a little in the finish. The alcohol really shows and, honestly, I don’t think most Scotch Ales need to settle in at over 8 or 9 percent, so I find this heat particularly distracting. Good, but rough on the edges.

Bottle thanks to Cletus. Pours dark reddish brown with tan head. Nose/taste of caramel, ripe dark fruit, toffee, vanilla and tons of alcohol. Crunchy nuts soaked in alcohol mouth feel. Medium body.

Pours a deep drown, with a fizzy off white head that fades fast. Nose of booze and malts. Above average based on the few I have tried.

tasting on 8/20/11. deep copper pour with a thin white head. caramel nose with light fruits. medium sweet body with dark fruits throughout. sweet finish with dark fruits and apple notes.