Oggis Caber Toss

Brewed by Left Coast/Oggis Pizza and Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Del Mar, California USA

Tap @ Oggi’s Vista: Clear dark amber. Light sweet malt aroma. Sugar and toffee, and grapes. Flavor was very sweet. Toasted, thick caramel, light smoke. Full bodied and very warming.

Mahogany pour, mostly lasting off-white head. Rich and chewy toasted malts are sweet and fruity (grapes, berries, caramel apple). Bitter on the palate, drying out immensely in fraction of seconds. Medium-full bodied, fair carbonation. Ridiculously hoppy imo which is too bad, because it has the great maltiness to make a fine malty barleywine or scotch ale, but this citric acidity is really too much.

10.01.05 GABF Dark ruby brown. Medium bodied and sticky. Tons of dirt, earth, peat, whatever. Also leather and tobacco. Licorice. Pretty good.

This beer was at PP Strong ale festival. It poured a deep brown color w/ reddish highlights, good head and thin lacing. Caramel and raisin sweetness, malt, hints of plum and wood on the nose. The flavor was the same w/ hints of grapefruit also. This beer was dry but aggressive, a full body and good effervescence.

This beer was had on tap at Oggi’s Vista. It pours a dark mahogany color with absolutely no head and lacing. The aroma is very faint but sweet with chocolates, malt, pine, and licorice in the nose. Did i mention recently how I am not a big fan of licorice? Anyhow, this had a medium bodied flavor with a dark currant backbone followed by hints of grapefruit and lemon. This ends very dry, with little to no carbonation, Typical scotch ale flavor, grapefruity and banana-like...some appearance of that 9.6% as it warms. Solid but not all that exciting.

What kind of losers rated this beer bad...maybei just had a good batch. it poured a dark reddish chestnut color with a off white halo...nice malty, piney,. christmasy aroma leading to smooth, thick, and malty goodness with enough creaminess and maltiness to make me happy.

Clear garnet body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some syrup, cherry, some alcohol. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some roast, light scotch-alcohol warming. Medium-full body.

Dark Burgundy. Earthy, meaty, malt driven aroma with scents of syrup, apple, toasted malt and chocolate. Malts dominate and give a sweet, smoky, meaty, fruity feel with notes of caramel, chocolate, toasted bread and toffee. Well hidden alcohol but not very complex and a little on the sweet side.