Scottish & Other Ales

[Sir William Marcus]

Over the weekend I was able to sample the "Belhavens Scottish Ale" and I must say I prefer it over the St. Andrews.  When the say its sweet, smooth and with a creamy finish they weren't kidding, very tasty!


Hey Butch, It appears that one of my finer liquor stores carries the "Dead Guy & Double Dead Guy Ales". I'm looking forward to sampling both of them this weekend!

Ale On!

[Butch]

DOUBLE Dead Guy?  I'll have to give that a try!

[Butch]

OK, now a new list comes out!  Plow through it and see if you can find some winners!

http://www.worldbeercup.org/winners.html

[shakespeareguy]

Interesting list! A great place to start a new round of researches. The Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout is fine stuff, if you like milk stouts.

[Sir William Marcus]

Scots unleash world's strongest beer

World's Strongest Beer

[DonaCatalina]

"Sink The Bismarck!"
Now that's a name for a beer.

[azchris]

Best scottish beer I have found thus far:



Anyone that goes to the AZ ren faire you can go to the brewery in Tempe for a great time as well!

[kilteddispatcher]

Personally, I'm a Newcastle fan, but when I have to compromise with the wife it's usually a good Lambic, like Lindemann's Kriek (AKA chery ale) tastes like cherry soda....
Also looking forward to checking out a couple of the historical brews that are coming out... I think it's dogfish head brewery recreating beers dating back thousands of years by taking samples from pottery artifacts and analyzing the chemical comp of the beer residue... a great use of modern science!

[Jack Daw at Work]

My favorite fall-back Scottish beer is Belhaven's St. Andrews, but lately, I've been enjoying Belhaven's STOUT - out of this world!  It tastes better than Guinness!

[LadyAnn]

[mehan]

Lucked upon three bottles of DFH Bitches Brew.  REally wanted to try it- figured my podunk town wouldn't get any - but hey, we did.  Quite interesting - you all know I am a huge DFH fan anyway.  I will say it isn't my favorite of theirs, but I was happy to try it. 

On a different note - a short beer story.

I make the call schedule up at work.  One of the guys on call always asks me to do him a small favor when its his turn (about every 16 weeks).   As its well know around work I like good beer, he always thanks me with something nice.   

Yesterday when I brought home the latest thank you gift (Bluegrass Bourbon Beer Barrel Stout) and placed it in our somewhat depleted beer fridge my husband said:

"You make out the call schedule, right?"    "Yes I do".  I replied.

"Jeff is the only one who gives you beer - right?" he continued. 

"Um, well, yes, that's true" - I said

"Then why in the heck don't you just schedule him on call for the next several weeks until the beer fridge is full?".


Now, why didn't I think of that?  Go hubby

[Sir William Marcus]

Beer fun fact of the day:

In Medieval Europe, brewing and baking went together. Thus women were the first European brewers and were often called ale wives.

[Ser Niall]

This is a pretty decent Scottish ale made in the Detroit area.  I'm not a connoisseur of the style, so I don't know how it compares to other Scottish ales, but I do enjoy it.



http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2085/6685

[Jack Daw at Work]

Orkney Skullsplitter is also very good!

[mehan]

These country mice just got back from a trip to the big city (and attendant big box wine/beer warehouse) and picked up some old favorites  (Founders Old Curmudgeon, Terrapin Hopsecutioner and other yummies) but took our chances on something we saw that we hadn't even heard of -  Sam Adams Wee Heavy. We haven't tried it yet, but are curious.     I don't hate Sam Adams, just haven't had anything of theirs that warranted a 3 hour drive to the big city.

Anyone here tried it?