Traquair Jacobite Ale

Brewed by Traquair
Style: Traditional Ale
Innerleithen, Borders, Scotland

Pours deep dark brown (almost balck) with a nice tan coloured head. Nose is really expressive! A heap of spice & tea, almost gewurztraminer like (i dont know how...?) hides beneath a layer of dark choc/coffee malt. Palate lets the dark malt come through more. Dry coffee roast and bitter chocolate with a layer of dark fruit & caramel sweetness, crazy depth! Finishes with significant spice. Like muggus says, a weird hybrid style here - part belgian dark, part porter with some crazy aromatic spice to boot. Awesome!

330ml bottle. Deep near black body with small dense tan head. Leaves good lace and legs on the way down. Amazing sort of nose. Rich burnt toffee, dark chocolate, smokey woody roasted malts, liquorice, with a unique spiciness that makes it almost seem Belgian; pepper, clove, coriander, citrus peel, cinnamon, nutmeg, dark fruits. Oilly body, sticky texture, carbonation relatively low, slight spice astrigency but well balanced by malt sweetness. Rich malt body, seems to take a different direction to the nose. Dark chocolate mixed plums, prunes, dates, good helping of rich nutty maltiness, liquorice, vanilla, leading onto clove and cinnamon spice. Orange peel on the finish, some pepper alluding to alcohol, and a lingering dry bready yeast note. Another unique and delicious beer from this brewery. If I had to narrrow it down to similiar beers, it’s almost like a Porter combined with a Weizenbock, and a Belgian Wit, odd combination, but its so tasty!

The spice comes through strong in the aroma - I’m assuming it’s the coriander. The flavor is much maltier than the nose suggests, nice roasted malts, a little chocolaty on the front end, the spice pulls through towards the end but doesn’t over power. Nicely balanced between the malt and spice. Very enjoyable, I want another!

Poured a nice cola color with a thin off white head. Aroma was malt, a lot of toffee notes, and a hint of spice. There was something kind of mysterious lurking in the background that I couldn’t place, but was very intriguing. Flavor was more of the same. Heavy toffee caramel notes with a good malt kick and that fleeting mystery flavor. The spice was nice and I’m sure it was the coriander that was lending the mystery, but it didn’t really taste like coriander. Intriguing beer.

bottle - dark brown beer with a not very long lasting beige head. Spicy aroma, like fruits and cinnamon. Flavour is also spicy, toffee and malt.

33cl Bottle (BB 2017). Very dark brown almost black.A very light tan head.Spicy aromas with hints of chocolate, licorice and caramel. Very complex taste bittersweet chocolate, caramel,licorice, roasted malt,toffee ,coriander,plums and more. Extremely tasty and drinkable. I’m curious to age the other bottle I have for some years. Exceptional !

From a bottle this poured a dark and muddy brown with an off-white head and good lacing. Nose of ripe fruits and spices like coriander. Rich mouthfeel. and lots of flavors of chocolate, figs, nuts, and the finish is very nice with light bitterness. A very good beer.

Bottle. The strong smell of coffee and bitter chocolate, very malty and sweet. The head is small, creamy and brown with a normal duration. The body is nearly black. The beer has a nice taste of chocolate, I should check it one on one with the Double Chocolate Stout from Youngs if I get the chance. No spices in the taste. The body is very creamy, medium to very strong with no carbonation. A very nice beer.