Posts Tagged: Scotland and Scots Styles
Belhaven Scottish Ale And The Ithaca Coffee Co.
Posted by on Sunday, May 14, 2006 in - 4 comments
Directions to the Ithaca Coffee Company. • As Mike Myers memorably stated "if it's no Scottish, it's crap". I will be spending time this week with some Scots, and so I decided to choose a beer that fit the bill, as it were, to get in the mood. Living now by Ithaca, I can shop at the rather …
Is Twisted Thistle An IPA?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 in - 28 comments
I picked up this beer while on the road and I was immediately in a fix, dealing with cultural confusion. As a son of Scots I know that Belhaven is a fine and reputable brewer of Scots ales bought last year by Greene King...yet I know IPA is not a Scots style. I have discussed this before in …
Scotland: Traquair Jacobite, Peeblesshire
Posted by on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 in - 2 comments
A wee nip of the good stuff for Robert Burns Day. • This dark red-mahogany ale with a beige rim is advertised as ale flavoured with corriander and that is exactly what it is. A big malty brown ale with a load of straight corriander seed flavour. In the malt there is dry fruit like fig and date …
Grrreat Scots!
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2005 in - 6 comments
Five different takes on scotch ales...three of which are even from Scotland. The two on the ends are from Smuttynose of New Hampshire, left, and Middle Ages of Syracuse, NY to the right. Who can not love a nation of ale that includes the style called heavy and know that it is not even the heaviest …
Five from Scotland
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2004 in - 1 comment
Jim Barr, our correspondent from Ayrshire Scotland, has forwarded some great notes on five brews from the old country, three of which are organic. • Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted: Apparently Champion Beer of Britain, 2003 in its cask conditioned form. This is a honey coloured beer with a lot of …
Historic Ales of Scotland
Posted by on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 in - 20 comments
Alba Pine, Fraoch Heather, Ebulum Elderberry, Grozet Gooseberry • I buy this four 330 ml bottle boxed set every Christmas at the LCBO for no doubt an exorbident price given all the fancy packaging. What I do not understand is why the beers in this promotional package are not otherwise available …
Deuchars IPA, Caledonian, Scotland
Posted by on Saturday, October 16, 2004 in - 4 comments
India Pale Ale did not originate in from Scotland, though the Scots brewers were early adopters of most English styles as a matter of survival. This very light ale for an IPA has something of the Scots roast barley bite and a slight smokey yeast there as well as a very nice bright orangy flavour …
Belhaven Fruit Beer, Scotland
Posted by on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 in - leave a comment
I am fairly pleased to say I have only met one beer I did not like - Garrison Jalapena Ale. Mouth gets hot, take a drink, mouth gets hotter, take a drink, mouth gets hotter...you get the idea. • Belhaven Fruit Beer is not quite that but it isn't quite fruity either. When very fresh raspberries …
