Belhaven Wee Heavy / 90 Shilling (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: English Strong Ale
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

16.9oz bottle-pours a light tan head and red color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel/brown sugar, dark fruit-cherry. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel/brown sugar, peat, dark fruit-cherry, balanced/secondary spicy/earthy hops with some bite which offsets the sweetness. Later more herbal comes through. Not quite my taste but nicely done.

Appearance is deep red with a thin and light head. Very sweet aroma of caramel and cream. Sweet aroma of caramel malts, also some coffee. Medium body with low carbonation. Very sweet and easy beer - one of my favorites for a dessert.

500 ml bottle from the LCBO. pours deep amber with a tan head that lasts all the way down the glass. muted malt aromas that are overly sweet. good malt flavours that are seemingly a cross between a ESA and a Scotch Ale. good palate for a one dimentional malt bomb. no trace of the abv, but not stunning good in any other aspect. a solid ESA.

500 ml bottle. Medium body with long finish. Malty flavour. Aromas of raisin and bread.

Bottle, September 2008. Pours a deep red with a large head, starting to dissipate. The aromas on this thing are pretty huge; I smell grass, fig, lots of black cherry, raisin, dark grape, bread, a bit of pleasant sourness. The mouthfeel is a bit thin. Flavour does not quite live up to the awesome aromas, but is full of dark fruit, raisin, cherry, pepper, a bit of chocolate. A bit watery. Short finish.

500mL bottle from the LCBO. Went through a lot to get this. Pours a nice dark ruby with a large beige head. Aroma is unimpressive, very mild malts with nowhere near as much peat as I was hoping for. Creamed corn too, but not in the typical nauseating way. Flavour is decent, though much more mild than I was expecting. Nice Scottish malt body and flavours, with only the most minor of alcoholic hints. Minor toffee. Some herbal hops. Dry finish and aftertaste, something I would not really expect from a beer that is supposed to be prodominantly sweet and malty. I was really expecting more out of this one, but it is by no means a bad beer. Enjoyable, if somewhat bland. Not as full-feeling as I would want in something like this. I can see why this is not classified as a Scotch/Scottish Ale.

Man, I love this beer, pours a very dark amber with a thin slight off white head that leaves behind some mild lacing. Aroma seems a little subdued, but that may change as it warms. Some strange light notes of metal, with bigger notes of what I call Italian Christmas cake, caramel, and molasses. Big malty sweetness, Italian Christmas Cake, Dark Fruits, Trail Mix. Heavy on the tongue, slight dryness in the finish. I don’t know what it is about this beer but I frigging Love it.

Sapore molto intenso, molto maltoso, anche se non ho molte strong ale con cui confrontarla