French Broad Wee-Heavy-est Belgian Scotch Ale

A ruby red/dark brown pour with off white head and lace. Roasted malt aroma with hints of dates. Rich sweet malt and a very light bitter. Creamy full palate. Full sweet and refreshing. Very solid

Draft at City Beverage. Dark amber pour with a thin head. Tastes like a thin scotch ale with that malt forward flavor, some honey, but a thinner version of the usual booze finish. I assumed it was highly watered down to become their most popular beer. Instead, I discovered they made a strong ass beer that goes down like water.

Bomber from November 2007. I’ve long enjoyed the basic Wee Heavy (which I need to enter from backlog), and thought the Wee Heavier was decent. This is an interesting experiment that really adds something new to previous offerings. Very full bodied copper/brown pour with a nice lasting head. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy. Aroma has some definite yeast in it along with strong caramel malts and some cinnamon and clove in there. There’s some real spice, almost an astringent flavor that doesn’t always blend well with the malts. Sometimes the yeast seems to balance things out in a quirky way, but not always. Strangely puckering finish, which is weird for the style I suppose. But damn if I don’t dig it in the long run.

Noogfest ’08, thanks to suttree. The body was dark brown with a khaki head. The aroma was chocolate with some malt. The taste was malty and roasted with some iced tea. A decent brew.

Noogfest Four-O

Bottle, from someone. Message me if it was you! Pours grayish brown, with a well-carbonated head and good lacing. Has that peat aroma, but full of fruit and hazy yeast. Some cider, too. Interesting scotch quality, but mixes with banana and clove, some smoked malt. Smooth, light-bodied but packed with enough unique flavors to enjoy.