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Traquair House Ale 3.69 812

Traquair House Ale

Percentile
95
overall
Brewed by Traquair
Style: English Strong Ale

Innerleithen, Borders, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
8123.69/5.03.69/5.07.2%97.4English pint, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
Mainly available filtered in bottles, though part of the production goes unfiltered into cask.
The production of Traquair House Ale consists of an infusion mash, after which the wort is drawn off and boiled with the hops. The wort is cooled and pitched with bottom fermenting yeast under controlled temperature. It is then fermented in oak over a period of seven days. The beer is transferred into cold storage tanks or barrels and matured over a period of weeks. After maturation the beer is filtered prior to packing.
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 BitchesBrew (710), Berkeley, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/515/20
Feb 6, 2008  
[WBA Styles Tasting] Big-time malt aroma, with some subtle vanilla character. Pours a very nice dark brown color. Complex flavors of chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Very low perceived bitterness. Mouth-coating, slick mouthfeel.


 leeburg (149), Juneau, Alaska, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/515/20
Feb 5, 2008    Updated: Jun 29, 2009
Iced tea brown, off-white head. A little wet smelling, prunes, brown sugar, some yeast. Malty with a slight meat flavor, which reflects the interesting aroma. Quite lightly carbonated, and a lingering mildly bitter finish. Interesting and decent brew.


 kidmartinek (1001), austin, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/514/20
Feb 3, 2008  
A dark brown brew with no fuss (head). Smells like sweet malt, sugar, and alcohol, which isn’t necesarily a good thing. The flavor is like mild beef, alcohol, and tinged barley leaf. It’s decent. It’s a little sticky in the mouth.


 KimJohansen (7136), Copenhagen V, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 1, 2008  
Dark brown with medium off white head leaving laces. Aroma has roasted malt, ripe fruits and liquerice. Flavor is moderate sweet with roasted malt, caramel, spices and ripe fruits.


 Maria (6318), Thisted, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Feb 1, 2008  
Dark brown with a descent head. The aroma is weird, and the association I get is a dirty, wet dog! The mouthfeel is semi-oily. The flavour is complex, the notes are earthy, basement, wet, dirty dog, raisins soaked in rum and port wine, myrtle, oak and tannic acid. A very "alternative" beer that is a challenge to the taste buds.


 Carlus12 (361), London, Greater London, England
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/514/20
Jan 31, 2008  
Bottle from Utobeer. Pours mahogany / reddish colour with thin beige head. Aroma is of liquorice, malts, dark fruits, plum. Taste is caramel, coffee, chocolate, fruits, some alcohol, roast malts too. Overall this is very much like a Belgian style beer. Very nice beer indeed.


 DruncanVeasey (2764), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/516/20
Jan 28, 2008  
Buttery malt aroma with liquorice and waxy dark fruit. Dark ruby pour ringed with beige. Unspicy but still very Belgian-tasting, developing more liquorice, chocolate and raisiny fruit in the mouth, with a peaty smoked malt note and some alcohol glow. Tasty, complex, smooth, and falling somewhere between a pruney, malty dubbel and a silky Trappist heavyweight (Rochefort?). Nice.


 Brix (377), Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Jan 26, 2008  
Tasted 2007-12-27. Fresh bottle. Pours clear red/brown with light brown head. Sweet malty aroma of dark, ripe fruits and prunes. Flavours of prunes, sweet fruits, yeast and chocolate. Very tasty and very complex.



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