Tröegs Scratch 16

Formerly brewed at Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: English Strong Ale
Hershey, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

Pours a beautiful clear, mahogany amber with a small beige head. Aroma of bitter grapefruit, tangy tangerine nectar and hops. Taste is bitter with a strong grapefruit presence. Very hoppy and tangy. One of the better ones from the Scratch series.

Sweet malty, light caramel nose. Sparkling reddish amber in color with very little head. Light caramel, some choco, amarillo tangerines and some cobwebs from the yeast. Medium bodied with some tangy fruit at the finish. I rather like it. Thanks to the crew at BOTW!

This is a very hoppy winter warmer that I thoroughly enjoyed. Aggressive hops mix with some spicy yeast notes and lots of sweet, bready malts. A perfect sessionable brew for the winter.

Poured a clear chestnut brown color with a small, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, toffee, toasted notes, nuts, and pine. Taste of caramel malts, nuts, tannic graininess, tobacco, pine, and some gritty yeast.

A wonderful little gift from Mike, in Buffalo. A style I do like, an old ale, this was a cross between that and a winter warmer and an ESB. Wonderfully tamed hops and barley, with a fruitiness. Marvellous drinkability.Pours dark fruity brown with a minor white head. Fruitiness in aroma. ABove average mouthfeel.

12oz bottle. Poured a deeper orange color, almost brown, with a smaller sized of white head. Lacing left on the glass. Aromas of earthiness, caramel, toffee, toasty, and somewhat nutty. Tastes of caramel, toffee, nutty, doughy, and pine. A little fruitiness in the tastes as well.

Bottle pours a deep chestnut brown with deep amber notes and a medium bubbly off white head that left some spotty lacing. Aroma of brown sugar, pecans, pine, caramel, grapefruit, molasses, toasted malt, honey and malty sweet notes. Flavor of brown sugar, molasses, honey, toasted malt, almonds, pine and grapefruit that lingers a bit on the tongue. This one is a little sweet yet earthy up front but then quickly goes dry with a bitterness that lingers.

Thanks to Dim for sending this want along. 12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass it produced a quickly lasting white head that trailed of to a ring of lace around the glass. The color of the body though is a beautiful maroon color The aromas are interesting malty- citrus kind of strange for a winter warmer but interesting. The flavor is a bitter hoppiness the more I drink this I am thinking it is a winter IPA more than a traditional winter warmer. This brew is medium in the mouth not much carbonation. I’d drink it again but not one of my favorite in the scratch series.