Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle)

Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Traditional Ale
Alloa, Central, Scotland

While I have made a few heather ales, this is the first one from a bottle I have tried. Pour was dark orange, not amber. A bit of true cloudiness was present....a nice appearance, overall for this beer. Head was non-existant, and I couldn’t make it foam. Aroma was surprisingly mild, compared to the heather ale I have made. Herby, but really eclipsed by the biscuit smell of the malt. Taste was about the same. Understated. Compared to other heather ales I have tried (mostly homebrews) this is a seriously inoffensive beer. Heather for the masses, perhaps? Nice beer, easy to drink, but I think in this case, I would prefer some hops...or even spruce or cedar. This tasted like tea-beer. Ho-hum.

Low white head on a body whose colour I could not see because I drank it in an opaque clay trinket provided with the beer. This is the stngest taste I have ever experienced in a beer. The herbal taste is overwhelming . Notes of all kinds of spices. Not a bad beer, but not something I would drink every day.

Bottle. Aroma light malty. Head fair creamy mostly diminishing. Body colour orange. Initial flavor moderate sweet.

Bottled(500ml). -strange beer but quite good, slight punch notes, malty aroma with strong heather and spicy aroma, lingering spicy herbal finish

Bottle. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Light amber colour. Heavy malty aroma. Nice flavor, but a little watery.

Reminds me of a belgian in a lot of ways. Has a hint of the sourness unique to belgians, as well as slight notes of clove and corriander. Also reminds me of a tripel. particularly in the combination light flavors with a chewy mouthfeel. Not as thick as a tripel, but somewhere along those lines. As for the actual flavor; sweetness up front balanced by a flavor I don’t recognize, but I would obviously guess is heather. It is similar to hops in some ways, with the herbal and bitter character, but with an even drier floral profile. Does a pretty good job of balancing the malt. Another beer that I find interesting, but don’t have strong feelings for.

Cloudy pale straw colour with thin white head. No discernable nose or flavours to speak of. Everything is very mild to nothing at all.

very, very smooth. clear in color and almost sour in flavor definately a sour aftertaste. This is a very average beer. and for the price - it won’t be purchased by me again.