Sacramento Sac-Squatch Scotch Ale

Formerly brewed at Sacramento Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Sacramento, California USA

22 oz bottle purchased at the SBC brewpub. Goofy name, goofy lable, and funky beer. The beer had a musty aroma and a roasted, mossy flavor, with aftertaste of toffee. Did I detect a note of raisins? Poured a dark brown color with not much of a head. A decent change of pace beer.

Bomber a gift from Bikesandbeer, because he knows I like Scotch Ales and its a local from where he grew up. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Nose is really a big old blech. Taste is a little sweet with some roastiness and some caramel. Overall this is a big old flop and a an even bigger drain pour.

This was okay. It was rather unusual with the range of flavours. I have had much much better examples of a scotch ale.

Bottle picked up on a road trip from Bev Mo. Pours a dark brown with nice red hues and a thin head. Aromas of chocolate, roasted nuts, and light peaty smoke. Chocolate dominates the flavor with secondary hints of faint salty smoke, and roasted nuts. Pretty smooth with a moderate carbonated bite. A light lingering roast and smoke rounds out the finish of this nicer than expected brew.

An old 22oz Bottle. Tasted blind. Old. Wax, flaming candles and dust. A little sourness. Pours brown, muddled with purple, and a rim of banana flash. Flavor is distinct in blueberry and chewy raspberry jam. Weird concoction of fruit, mineral, ash and candy. Old tasting, but not overly oxidized. A touch of roast and coffee. Apple-raspberry juice. In the Juicy-juice box style. Reduced. Dust. Holding carbonation. Apparently a Scotch Ale. Weird old caramels, but actually not that bad for the age. Thanks Steve!

A very deep brown color, small beige head. Roasted malt, sweet, molasses and an unusual funk.... must be the peat. A strange sweet, smoky, earthy vegetal flavor.....beets or parsnips come to mind. neither is a flavor I seek out in beer. Thin without much carbonation. I don’t mind a still beer, if it has the body to back it up, this doesn’t. I can’t see finishing this. I will save the last half of the bottle for use as a marinade.

~Pours into a dark blackish amber color with 1/2 inch off white head. ~Malty Nutty smell. Smells Good! ~Mild bitter sweet taste. Not a real strong flavour. The only ingredient that stands out would maybe be the malts. ~Palate is smooth and a bit heavy. Probably buy again as a single 22 oz. Nice mild Scoth Ale.

Name: Sac*Squatch
Date: November 04, 2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
Appearance: dark with ruby edges, wispy beige head
Aroma: smokey aroma with roasted and dark chocolate
Flavor: rich dark malt flavor, good combination of roasted and smokey malts, touch of dark chocolate, just a hint of sweetness from dark caramel, light earthyness, fleeting touch of tartness
Overall: overall dry and smokey

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

Date: July 06, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear dark red, fine beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet and smokey aroma, dark caramel sweetness, smokey peat, lots of earthyness
Flavor: sweet dark caramel flavor, candy sweetness, good balancing earthyness with light peat

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4