Scotch Silly

Brewed by Brasserie de Silly
Style: Scotch Ale
Silly, Belgium

Serve in Thistle

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Dark amber, almost brown, with a cream-colored head and nice lace. Dark fruit aromas, accompanied by roasted malt, caramel, and subtle yeast. Caramel sweetness up front, with dark fruit, brown sugar and a hint of alcohol. Medium body, minimal carbonation, creamy mouthfeel and a lingering pleasant rich malt sweetness.

Single from the SAQ. Pours a deep amber colour with a frothy, beige cap that has good retention and leaves a bit of soapy lacing. Nutty nose at first, but then, loads of apples come out with some butterscotch. Pretty much the same for the taste, but a little milder, and with a tad of alcohol showing. The nuts show more in the aftertaste this time. Decent Scotch ale, but not one I would have again. In this range of strong Scotch ales, preferred the "À l’Abri de la Tempête Corne de Brume".

Nose of dark fruit, figs, sweet malts. Pours a cloudy dark amber witha rapidly dissipating off-white head and no lacing. The taste is sweet, almost cloy. Too surpy for me. Overall, will not drink again. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a nice brown beer with a good white head. The smell is sweet. Fruity. The taste is light bitter and sweet. The palate is nice. Medium body and a bit sticky. Good beer.

Bottle. Pours dark reddish-brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of molasses, wood, apples and other fruits along with a touch of alcohol. Flavors of molasses, caramel, dark fruits, wood, light alcohol and some earthy hops. Nicely balanced and tasty.

330 ml. bottle. Pours a thick, well retained, ivory head, with some lacing, over a slightly hazy, reddish amber (SRM 16) body....nose is caramel/toffee, light dried fruits....taste is quite sweet, with toffee/caramel tones on candi sugar, with hints of raisin, plum, finishing with a light bitter bite.....mouth feel medium, sticky, carbonation high. This bottle is a rather simple, soda like, almost excruciatingly sweet beer. It lacks the balance of a complex malt backbone to tone down the sweetness. I wonder if the bottle has been mishandled in some way. BJCP 7/3/10/4/7

Couleur orange brûlé à la lumière, mince col de mousse sur les parois du verre. Arômes d’alcool fort, de bois, de sucre d’orge. Mi-épaisse. Assez douce lors de l’entrée en matière, elle présente du corps en finale, avec des notes boisées, caramélisées, presque doucereuses. Une scotch ale assez surprenante, mais en même temps en plein dans le style. La différence réside probablement dans les ingrédients belges.

Belle couleur brune et mousse généreuse. Bouquet très sucré d’alcool, de caramel, de petits fruits, de mélasse avec des arômes subtils de vin de madère. En bouche, c’est très sucré. De belles notes de caramel et de porto explosent. Cela me donne l’impression d’un hybride double belge - scotch ale. Notes sucrées et de levures qui évoquent la double, mais le goût de caramel et la texture rappellent l’ale écossaise. J’adore. Je vais certainement racheter. Cheers!

33 cl bottle ordered a while back from Doorstep Brew, sampled on March 31, 2913. BB 29/09/13.
Hazy brown color, tan head. Sweet, bread, bisquit, sugary, alcohol scent. The alcohol a bit too evident and overpowers some of the others, dominates too much. Sweet, bread, raisins, lactic, nuts, oily taste. Alcohol is much better hidden in the taste than in the scent, though a warming feeling comes after just a few sips. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Not one for drinking fast or many in a row, at least not for me and wanting to not get too tipsy, have good flavor, though the scent was too much alcohol indeed.

Bottle. Aroma of light toasted malt, hazelnuts and caramel, overripe apples, raisins. Alcoholic and also partly whiskyish. Medium body, very sweet, more fruity than malty flavour, though the nuttiness is there all the time. Unfortunately it finishes in a biting, astringent way. Overall quite nice.