Tyranena BGW Shaggin’ In The Wood

Brewed by Tyranena Brewing
Style: Scotch Ale
Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Thistle

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Reddish nut brown with very small white head. Delicious sweet aroma of roasted malt, coffee, toffee, vanilla, nutty, oaky, a little chocolate I suppose - excellent. Flavor adds bourbon which really blends in well. Rounded medium body, very clean and smooth. Finish is roasty, bourbon and vanilla. I enjoyed this much more than I would have imagined. Great beer and underrated in my opinion.

Smells good, I like it. Aroma is caramel, malt, something syrupy. Toffee, coffee. First sip is extremely smooth. Light but not lacking. Smooth bourbon, coffee, dark chocolate, malt. Finishes with a light toasty bourbon taste.

12 ounce bottle in a goblet glass. A nice aroma of sweet plums and bourbon. Appearance is a dark copper orange, low carbonation, little foam and no lacing. The taste was a smooth combination of bourbon, dark dried fruit, and brown sugar. Palate was medium bodied, very drinkable (no idea what the abv is on this one, no sign of it here nor on the bottle). All around pleasant and an interestingly assertive spin on a scotch ale. The bourbon aspects mix seamlessly with this style of beer, or at least they make it seem that way here.

Weird aroma, almost of clean bathroom with some peat notes and caramel. The mouthfeel is undercarbed and it is a light beer with light bourbon, scotch ale, and barrel notes. There is some oak but it is mostly just an absent bittersweet that lingers in the finish.

On tap, smokey sweet nose. Bourbon smoke and dark fruit. Slightly to much alcohol burn. Pretty sweet but very nice

Thanks to thirdeye11 for sharing this bottle. Reddish-amber with a white head. Aroma is chocolate, bourbon, maple, vanilla, peat malt and toffee. Flavor is bourbon and oak, with some scotchy peat character, maple, vanilla and toffee. I also get some strong alcohol notes. Medium to thick mouthfeel and low carbonation.

Fairly low key Brewers Gone Wild entry. Big vanilla scent on front end and sweetness on finish. In between, a nice, thick ale. It seems sneaky boozy, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Good brew.

Pours deep amber. Malty boozy aroma. Body is oily with some small vanilla notes, getting the boozieness but not as much barrel as I was expecting. Compared this to Backwoods and can’t say that it held up.

Smells a little like vanilla, can definitely smell the whiskey, and a caramel like malt smell. Taste is very sweet, strong whiskey flavor and a little bit of oak in the finish. A little more carbonation might make this a little better.

Wasnt impressed at all. Too much smoke, not enough bourbon. Weird malt. Couldnt even finish.