Sly Fox Gang Aft Agley Scotch Ale

Brewed by Sly Fox Brewhouse
Style: Scotch Ale
Royersford and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania USA

Name: Gang Aft
Date: 05/03/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear dark red, wispy beige head, streaks of lace,
Aroma: dry dark caramel malt aroma with a slightly smokey earthyness and just a hint of sweetness,
Flavor: sweet dark caramel flavor, touch of earthyness for balance, light smokey peat character, light bitterness, dark caramel sweetness persists as it should,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

On tap at the Sly Fox in Phoenixville. Poured a medium reddish-brown color with a small off white head. Aromas and tastes of malts (caramel and toffee) and somewhat bready. Light chocolate in there as well.

Clear a transparent amber ruby with a spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel smoky peat and a touch of light fruity esters. Starts with good fullness and malty sweetness. Finishes slightly drier and warming with some peppery smoky character. A pretty decent Scotch ale.

on tap-pours a light tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is medium malt-sweet, yeast. Taste is medium malt-sweet, yeast, secondary hops bite. OK carbonation. Nice.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Dark amber orange coloured beer with a creamy beige head. Sweet malty aroma. Caramel and toffee with a kiss of toasted nuts and rich worty malts. A bit of earthiness and lingering light molasses. Low bitterness, low fruitiness with maybe just a hint of orange peel and a lingering caramelly sweetness. As it warms a bit of licorice comes forward. A nice, cold-weather beer.

Brown colored liquid with orange high-lights when held to the light. Thin beige, fizzy head that dissipates to a ring around the glass. Solid aroma with dark caramel, mild peat, and a bit of apricot. Sweet start with a bit of slightly burnt toffee. Quite light and almost airy in feel. Slight peat and alcohol add up to a mild bourbon flavors. Touch of tobacco and some medicinal flavors in the finish. Linger is faint with toasted malt and peat. Very nice, but the feel is thin, perhaps this one fermented a bit further than expected.

I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve had this. Pours burnt sienna with aroma of huge malt, some dark fruit, toffee, and caramel. Tastes very malty, with big toffee, caramel, some chocolate, and slight tobacco at the finish. Smooth, slightly ascerbic finish, and very well balanced and complex, as is the case with all Brian O’Reilly beers. BOR rules!

Thanks Dr. Jay for this latest local. Pours mahogoney brown with a little white crown, and some lace on the way down. Aroma of roasted malt, and some yeast. Above average mouthfeel, appropriate carbonation (that may hav got there by leaving it many months in the cellar). Toaste of roasted malt, a litle peat, finish of chocolate malt.