Oggis Caber Toss

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

Sampled draught at Oggi’s, Vista.
Dark brown, beautiful creamy head. Appley toffee aroma. Medium bodied. Sweet with clean, hard mouthfeel and syrupy finish.

Name: Caber Tossed
Date: 12/04/2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

dark brown with ruby edges, whispy tan head, very faint carmel and toffee aroma, big rich carmel malt flavor, touch of smokey peat in the finish, aroma and flavor grows as it warms, a really nice scotch ale

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

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.

750ml bottle acquired in trade (I was told it was a part part of the Brewers bottles from the ’05 GABF). Poured a medium and cloudy/murky brownish-orange color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, toffee, earthy, fruity, light peat and a little smokey. Tastes of toffee, sugary sweet, toasted malts, fruity, and smoke. Lively body. This was by far, one of the best Scotch Ales I’ve had in a while. Well done!

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.

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.

Thanks to hopdog. Pours a hazy brown/orange/amber with an averaged sized off white head that left some lacing. Aromas of caramel, toffee, earthy, various fruits, dark fruits and molasses/nuts. Tastes of sweet toasted malts, some fruit, caramel, brown sugar and nuts. Lots of carbonation.

(Draft: Oggi’s in Vista, CA) Damn, yet another well done beer at Oggi’s Vista; Every "big" beer is excellent here; Very sweet and very malty with some bitterness on the back end; Hides the alcohol very well; Heavy and dense on the palate, coating the mouth in malty sweetness, but this isn’t cloying; Very sweet and malty nose; Deep brown in color and nearly opaque, even in a 10-ounce glass, except at the very edge; Pours with no head and no carbonation bubbles anywhere to be seen