Town Hall Wee Heavy

Brewed by Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery
Style: Scotch Ale
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

For the style, I can’t imagine what they could have done to improve it. Port, currants, raisins, a little cognac and good hefty body. The PERFECT January sipper. Well, there you go, a perfect score. If they put it on cask, I’ll wet myself, then give it a 6...in that order.

This was great, I mean really good. Awesome sweet taste filled with chocolate and toffee. It looks awesome with a terrific head. An inviting aroma begs you to drink this one. I wouldn’t mind a growler’s worth to sip here at home on the cold january nights.

Caramel, candy, gritty roasty chocolate, and dark dark bagpipe-blowing goodness. I thought this tasted like good candy, and thus have difficulty being objective about it as a beer. I want to give it a five, but I feel that my sweet tooth is taking over. I want to pour this on my cereal, and lick it out of my fiancee’s belly button. I like it. From growler at Wawood’s tasting (though I will adjust this rating if I find the tap to be wildly different).

Ahhh- Friday evening, cold as hell -10 --20 below all week, real temp, windchill is for wimps - typical MN February. come home to a nice cozy home and pop a growler of this stuff.... life is good. Actually I started this growlr last night and was a wee bit tired this AM... Anyway, I love this stuff - perfect cold weather beer, strong and filling. Great heavy aroma, sweet and filling. Molasses and tobacco, (not smoke though). Pours with a small head of teeny bubbles and a bit of a hazy dark brownish ruby color. Nice rich smooth flavor leaving a nice warmth.

A bullwinklian thanks to footbalm for this beer. It’s malty, sweet, and it has almost an essence of strawberries to it. It was great. I really liked it. (hint if you want PP or lost abbey, this beer is trade bait).

Tap @ BP. Best beer of the lot. An excellent wee heavy. So nice I ordered a pint and a growler. Smooth, malty body w/ nice alcohol bite.

Dark plummy color, with cherry edges. largely opaque, with a thinnish, though durable tan head atop. Roasty, bittersweet espresso in the aroma, quickly eclipsed by molasses and dates, a rich, sweetness,sticky, sappy (not in the sense of being maudlin or trite, but being like the leaking of a maple tree), and nearly indulgent, ...avoids resembling treacle, comes off sophisticated and very inviting. The indulgence begins for real in the flavor, dark chocolate and toffee tones are felt foremost, carob, molasses, very full on the tongue, and tangy. This one washes luxuriously, almost sloppily around the mouth, but it’s a so delightfully pungent in taste, I take pleasure in the mess. The 8.5% abv shines a little half-way into the glass, but doesn’t stick out too clumsily. The warming attributes are well-appreciated,and expertly timed. (Mid-January in Minneapolis...it gets a little cold, you know.) Whiskey tastes come to mind, a little cognac, but the real flavor is a cross between dark Jamaican rum and port wine. This is so tasty...so very nice...there, I’ve run out of things to say, and will simply state the obvious. Due to it’s strength, this one is being served only in 10 ounce portions at the pub, yet here I sit at home with a whole growler to myself...how much damage can I do? Just kidding, I’ll cap the thing and dole out it’s goodness to stave off the chill and serve as reward for any accidental good I might do in the day.

Perhaps the best beer Town Hall has made. Light fruit aromas with malt, and a sweet aroma as well. Very dark, almost black with no head. Great flavor with much complexity. It had some flavors of a Baltic porter and a pleasant lager taste. More heavy fruit and sugar in the taste. It seems like a beer one should sip, but it is so smooth it is easy to drink a lot of this.