Town Hall Hope and King Scotch Ale

Brewed by Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery
Style: Scotch Ale
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Serve in Thistle

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Growler shared by theisti at a Chiefs tailgate. Pours a hazy auburn with a creamy beige head. The nose is of subtle caramel and peaty malt. Medium-bodied and slick, almost cream, with soft carbonation and a lightly grainy finish. Sweet, lightly peaty dark caramel malt, this tastes much like a dunkelweizen, sans the wheaty texture, plus a light peaty note. This is a solid, quaffable Scottish/Scotch ale. Thanks for sharing this with us, Tim.

Very drinkable scotch, chocolate and caramel, atad on sweet side. Medium yellow with a minimum head and white lace so surprises in taste.Above average mouthfeel, satisfying. Above average for style. I was noticing the alcohol a bit, as if it was 8-9%.

Growler from the brewpub, shared at a Chiefs tailgate. Pour is ruby brown, clear with a 2 inch light tan head and great settling. Aroma of soft malty peatiness, some brown sugar sweetness. Taste is malty, the same sweetness. Palate is medium, on the lighter side. Good clean scotch, though not the most complex.

Aroma: dirty malt, lots of dirt. An interesting fresh fruit character. It packs an interesting punch. Nice bitter finish.

Dark body, nice tan head. Aroma of burnt sugar, caramel and roasted malts. Flavor is pretty good - toffee, chocolate, dark fruit, earth, dried leaves. Very soft medium body. Pretty good.

Dark body with an okay head. Caramel and malts everywhere in the aroma, as you’d expect. Flavor isn’t overbearingly sweet like I find most scotch ales to be. It has a nice charred flavor that helps eliminate that characteristic. Quite good beer.

Cask @ brewpub. Pint comes to me with no remnants of a head and a dark clear brown color. Aroma is light forest and bark that isn’t burnt but burnt-esque. A faint forest garbage poop in there as well (not as bad as it sounds). But all in all a decent aroma for what would be the wet dark weather of Scotland. Taste is a faint brownie with light muddy leaves. Its very contained and subtle. An easy drinking with a medium, felt body. Now I am interested in the tap version.

UPDATED: SEP 9, 2008 I thought this was one of the weaker Town Hall brews I tried. Still a good brew just not up to par with others I had. Aroma was malty with chocolate and somewhere in there, coffee. Appearance was dark colored brown red with dark tan head. Flavor was bland with very little complexity, mainly a malty, barley flavor. Palate was good, went down smooth and had a nice body. So on cask, this beer is so much better. It needs to have a separate rate.

On tap at Town Hall. Pours a deeper brownish/amber with some golden notes and a smaller bubbly/creamy off white head. Aroma of peat smoke, roasted nuts, toasted malt, molasses, some chocolate and caramel. Flavor of light smoke, roasted malt, molasses, nuts, light chocolate, a touch of some hop bitterness and flavor.

On draught at the brewpub near downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pours a semi-clear copper amber brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a fine film and ring. Aroma of caramel malt, a touch of butterscotch, peat and roasted nuts. Taste is medium bodied, very little carbonation with flavors of semi-sweet malt, butterscotch, a little butter and a touch of smoked peat. Finish is semi-sweet, malty with a mild butter and caramel aftertaste. An interesting scotch ale, but could lose the butter.