Traquair House Ale

Brewed by Traquair
Style: English Strong Ale
Innerleithen, Borders, Scotland

Thin orange-brown pour with a red tint. Thin light tan head. Creamy caramel malt aroma. Hint of spice. Slightly sweet start. Toasted malt flavor, fades to a bitter finish. Creamy scotch like flavor. Spicy...maybe wasabi? Thin, but smooth and easy to drink.

Un ale di colore marrone scuro,con schiuma biancastra che aderisce lievemente al bicchiere.Aroma dolce di malto e caramello.Il sapore è di malto,liquirizia e un pò affumicato.Per una birra così l’alcool si percepisce appena.Discreta,e comunque la meno interessante,se vogliamo definirla così,tra le birra di Traquair

330ml bottle. BB Dec 2017!!! Deep, near-opaque, bronze body. Small dense collar of offwhite foam that hangs around. Big complex earthy nose; dark chocolate and roasted malts, fair bit of smoke and wood, mollasses, rum, vinous dark and dried fruits, some hop-derived spice and citrus peel sharpness. Opens out more with warmth. Bold mouthfeel, chewy texture, reasonably low carbonation, well balanced and clean with tremendous length. Tantalisingly complex and delicious body of flavour. Plenty of fruit-cake-like character with brown sugar, sultana, rum, citrus peel, liquorice and biscuit malt flavours, but the more you look, the more you find, with an unmistakable woody undertone bringing forth undertones of toasted oak, peat smoke, vinous berries and sherry. Finishes moderately bitter with a lingering smokiness, somewhat enticing and an alcohol warmth that would allude most who weren’t looking for it. Something about this beer that really draws me in, it’s delicitably unique, not to mention complex and well-made, almost like a Wee heavy just a wee bit less heavy.

33cl bottle, pours mahogany color. Big tones of malt and a hint of wine-like character that follows into the finish, which is dry. Noble shit!

it wasnt as quite as good as i expected for an english strong ale. Lots of chocolate, a bit of cookies, coffee and caramel in the palate, but no as bitter as I wanted to. Its visual was OK, nothing special.

Looked for this whilst I was in Edinburgh a few years ago but didn’t get to try it till I was in Melbourne the other week. Bits of alcoholic legs on the glass, expected short head on a brown body. Very smooth taste with warming alcohol, malt all through - nose and taste, very well made, hopefully see it here in WA soon.

Traquair House Ale has a clear dark ruby pour with mild to medium effervescence, I could see bubbles cruising up the sides of the glass after the pour, gave an off-white to tan fine bubbled head that lowers to a thin cover and ring, left some bubbly lacing on the glass, there are aromas of dark fruit, fragrances that resemble Red Wine, Rum and Port, and there are sweet yeast liquor alcohol fragrances, also, some brown sugar sweetness with earthy hints and faint spices with touches of roasted malt on the nose, a drink gave dark malt flavors of roasted malt, date and raisin dried fruit with little sweetness, some bitterness from hops and/or alcohol, faint licorice, does not finish real dry but it is not sweet either, alcohol and malt linger after the finish, this beer smells sweeter than it tastes, has a more than medium mouth feel and provided some faint alcohol warmth on the palate, a nice even drink, I just wish it was more affordable to enjoy more.

From a bottle poured brown with a fair amount of head. Nice dark malty flavor with a lingering finish.