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Tröegs Scratch 11 3.62 88

Tröegs Scratch 11

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883.68/5.03.62/5.0Special4.9%99.1English pint
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Next up, we present Scratch Beer #11-2008, a Bitter. We used to brew a little number called Tröegs ESB. Even though this beer was retired almost six years ago, we still get numerous Tröegs old-schoolers begging for its return.

Well hang onto your boot straps because Scratch #11 is about as close as we can get to the original ESB without firing up the old brew kettle. The Scratch #11 recipe originates from Chris’ stint at England’s University of Sunderland brewing program. After returning to Colorado the brothers drew on Chris’ experience and brewed pilot batches tweaking that recipe. The ESB production recipe has direct bloodlines to these pilot batches.
  • O.G.: 13 Plato
  • I.B.U.’s: 48
  • Malt: Dark Crystal, Roasted Barley, Extra Special Malt
  • Yeast: Thames Valley Ale
  • Hops: East Kent Goldings, Willamette, Chinook
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 omhper (12321), Stockholm, Sweden
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 20, 2002  
Reddish amber. Big perfumy hop aroma. Medium bodied. Intensly hoppy, citrusy aromatic finish.


 Oakes (8172), Beyond the Great Firewall, China
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/512/20
Jun 2, 2002  
Dark amber; earthy hop nose; all about the Goldings - highly original stuff here, if I had just walked out of the biosphere following a twenty-year stint. Every brewer in Ontario makes this beer.


 argo0 (7041), Washington DC, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Apr 18, 2002  
Great beer! Pine/caramel aroma suggests a nice balance between the hops and malts. The flavor backs it up -- nice hoppiness backed by good malts. The beer is copper colored with minimal head.


 hopdog (5630), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 31, 2008  
12oz bottle. Poured a medium copperish color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of toasted malts, citrus, caramel, and earthy. Tastes of caramel, earthy, toasted grains, and some toffee.


 jcwattsrugger (5583), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/512/20
Jun 8, 2008  
on tap-pours a light tan head with bubbles and copper/brown color. Aroma is northwest hops, some medium malt. Taste is medium malt, northwest and English hops, which makes this a lost effort to my taste and finishes thin. OK carbonation.


 Cletus (5060), Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jan 6, 2009  
Pours copper with a thin tan head. Smells rosey and spicy. Tastes sweet and rosey with some sugary splashes and earthiness present on the finish.


 ¾ (5011), Boulder, Colorado, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Apr 26, 2008  
Draft @ Troegs a large tan head settles down on top of a dark brown walnut colored body. Nose of fresh English Ale yeast, pungent and nutty with whiffs of peanut shells, crackers and caramel, and a faint smell of dried, aged woody hops. Flavor is similar, bright and fresh, that’s the best thing, and the yeast is again nutty and full of peanut shell and cracker flavors, with a small resinous chewy caramel malt flavor as well. Ok to above average, but certainly not anything outstanding.


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 5, 2008  
Bottle. Pours deep coppery colored with 1-finger off-white head. Nose is fruity hops, caramel malt, perfumy rosey florals, mild berries. Tastes hoppy, piney, with floral, berry, honeydew, and spicy notes. Not bad, but not among my favorite scratches.



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