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Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle) 3.2 840

Heather Ales Fraoch (Bottle)

Percentile
66
overall
Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Traditional Ale

Alloa, Central, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
8403.21/5.03.2/5.05%52.5Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard
Commercial Description:
Bottle: Filtered
Brewed in Scotland since 2000 B.C. heather ale is probably the oldest style of ale still produced in the world. From an ancient Gaelic recipe for "leann fraoich" (heather ale) it has been revived and reintroduced to the Scottish culture.
Into the boiling bree of malted barley, sweet gale and flowering heather are added, then after cooling slightly the hot ale is poured into a vat of fresh heather flowers where it infuses for an hour before being fermented.
A light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt charachter, a spicy herbal flavour and dry wine like finish.
Recommended with rich and Spicy foods.
Drink slightly chilled from a fluted glass.
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 Magicdave6 (5558), London, Greater London, England
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jun 4, 2005    Updated: Sep 16, 2005
Aroma is intreaging, floural and spicey. Taste is different, gee is it different, im gettin like flowers mixed into your bubblegum toothpaste, with a sweetness also coming from some hark depths of the seeweed that seems to be cutting in too. Different and intresting, worth a go if u see it on draft.


 mgumby10 (1858), Jupiter, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Mar 20, 2009  
Pours a cloudy orange gold color, with a smallish, bubbly white head. Smells of some mild orange peel, very subtle spice, caramel malt, and hints of clove. The clove and mintiness of it really came out in the flavor as well as other spices. the orange citrus definitely played a role as the caramel malt seemed to take a backseat here. Drank very nicely and was interesting for a simpler beer. i enjoyed it.


 M0RHI (1067), Luxembourg, Luxembourg
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/102/514/20
Jan 15, 2007  
Bottle. Pours a light chestnut with a thin white head. Nose of botanical malt, some bitter hop and coriander. Obvious peaty nose. Mouth is slightly sweet, very floral. Rather surprising, peat and coriander. Palate is bitter, slightly sweet, lasts well. Quite enjoyable, if not a little too fragrant.


 HogTownHarry (4025), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Aug 13, 2005    Updated: Sep 5, 2006
Bottle (330ml). Poured a murky orange-gold with a very small head. Aroma is very light, very high-sweet - I get honeycomb, clover, plenty of malt, fresh-cut hay and some sweet fruit (orange and apricot) as well as mild floral and pine/spruce resiny notes. Taste is strongly of dried flowers, with pine resin, citrusy malt and some musty, mushroomy earthiness. Finishes quite quickly, but the hops announce themselves on the way out the door. Mouthfeel is astringent. I can’t help but think of turpentine as I drink it - but for all that it’s very pleasant, just as enjoyable as the first bottle I had back in 1998.


 STEPHENDR (478), California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Dec 28, 2006  
12 oz. bottle- color of golden orange, with thin white quickly departing head - nose of malts , cobwebs , hopps , floral , and hay – taste of oak barrels , spices , earthy , mild hopps and malts - body thin , and crisp – aftertaste of hopps and short


BigNasty (55), South Lyon, Michigan, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 20, 2005  
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t appreciate any flavor characters that set this beer apart from any other well-made ale of medium body and flavor. But continuing in the same vein of honesty, I’d already had a beer or two AND I may have chilled this beer down too far, which would, of course, mute the complexities of flavor. Definitely a beer that I will be re-sampling and re-rating.


 radagast83 (1315), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 12, 2007  
Bottle. Interesting. Nice pour with hazy golden color. Sweet and malty. Hard to really place the flavor, but it was deffinately unique.


 mountainforest (111), Edinburgh, Scotland
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Jun 18, 2007  
Tasted at the 2007 Beer Festival in Edinburgh Scotland. Good. Refreshing. Amber. Floral and spicy. Plenty of malt to balance.



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