Sprecher Bourbon Barrel Scotch Style Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Courtesy boboski. Pours a cloudy ruddy brown, very small head that quickly vanishes. There is alot gong on in the aroma. Peat, smoke and malt dominate, with the bourbon charecter coming through, adding some vanilla charecter. Flavor is a bit too muted. Oddly sweet and a bit thin.

Bottle poured brown in color with a tiny off white head. Aroma was bourbon, oak, caramel, nuts, butter and toffee. The flavor was strong bourbon overpowering almost everything. Body was weak with a slightly sweet finish.

Bottle. Pours a clear copper with minimal head. Aroma of bourbon and light caramel. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and heavy bourbon finish. Good.

Courtesy boboski. Light copper color with a thin soapy head. Moderate peat and smoke aroma with a mild dose of alcohol. Surprsingly light palate, a tad undercarbonated. Taste is underwhelming - a bit too sweet with some smokiness on the back end. Smells better than it itastes.

35 oz big boy bottle. Purchased at Holiday Wine Cellar. This poured as a gloomy and dusty medium brown color and was topped by a small layer of foam. The aroma is a sweet nose of caramel and malt with a noticeable scent of cut wood. The flavor is a strong delivery of molasses syrup, oak wood, caramel malt, and scotch whiskey. To much heat and flavors for me to truly enjoy and relax with this beer so I will give it an average rating for that.

1 Liter flip top bottle acquired in multiple trades. Poured a deeper amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of oak, smoke, peat, earthy, light vanilla, and light bourbon. Tastes of bourbon, wood, peat, smoke, caramel, vanilla, and brown sugar. Body a tad on the thinner side. Alcohol content well hidden.

Name: Bourbon Scotch Style Ale Brewmaster Limited Release
Date: 07/02/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear amber, whispy head,
Aroma: sweet smokey aroma with a hint of vanilla,
Flavor: tart oak flavor,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Nearly fully diminishing light beige/cream colored head, fat-bubbled and thick initially. The body is dark amber with ruby red hues, oily. It’s actually very, very pretty. Huge smoked beechwood, bourbon and peated malt notes ar foremost in the aroma. Black pepper and hot red peppers are next, then bready and doughy malts, and sweet candied caramel appleskins(hints of acetydehyde). Also noted are vanilla, nuts(macadamia, almond, walnut), cherry and apricot; the complexity is indisputable. Even though this is flawedand loaded with ethanol it is fun to sniff away at and analyze. the flavor is a subdued state of the aforementioned, with a wacky, looming addition of rootbeer soda. Smoke, then peat, are most dominant. Medium-high sweetness, low bitterness and low acidity seem on par for the style. The palate is boring but inoffensive with low but prickly carbonation and a medium to medium-full body. Very smooth, finishes sticky. The barrel aging provides a substantial departure from the characters of the base beer.