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The Long Branch Scottish is an Americanized 80 Shilling Scottish Ale. The appearance is a slightly dark shade of brown and the nose is filled with roasted and bready malt. This brew is malt forward with dominate caramel notes backed by a light hop bitterness. A very clean, crisp malt character that leaves hints of roast and smoke that dissipates to a very clean and enjoyable finish. (Description provided by company)
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ABV:
5.00% ABV
Availability Frequency:
Fall
Containers Available:
bottle
draft
Locations Where Available:
Alabama
Store/Serve Temperature:
45-54 degrees F
Comments
LongBranch is worth sharing
Opened the bomber of Avondale's Long Branch Scottish ale and poured into a pint glass. It was a very dark brown with a pearly-white finger-thick head which slowly shrank to a cap. Decent chunks of lacing clung to the glass.
Smell is coffee, chocolate, and caramel with a bit of bread binding it all together. Nothing complex, just very pleasant.
The taste is lighter on the coffee, IMO, giving more of a taste of eating a turtle: chocolate, caramel, and nuts. There is a bit of hops I detect on the finish that seems to clean out the chocolate sweetness at the end. Again, nothing complex, just a very pleasant beer to drink.
This Scottish ale was light to medium bodied with carbonation a little on the light side. Seemed to go flat when I let the glass linger for a while. I'd get this again, but not a Scottish ale I would hunt down.