Silver City Fat Scotch Ale
A big bastard of an award winning brew. Exceptionally smooth with rich maltiness and a touch of smoky peat character.
3.6
186 reviews
Bremerton, United States
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Rating #1913 - 2015.09.24 - #CraftTakesSeattle Beer 12 - Bottleshare. Pours a really dark brown with a bubbly tan foam with medium retention. Aroma is earthy, molasses, toffee, mild peat. Taste is quite sweet at first, malt and toffee, full bodied. I enjoyed this beer more as it started to warm. Great peat notes make this phenomenal.
SeaTac, Wa - on tap at the Seattle Taproom in the Seattle Airport. Murky, dark amber pour, creamy off-white head. Aroma has some peat, toffee, some nuttiness . Delectable flavor with some nice toffee accents, a hint of chocolate, some earthy peat notes in the back end. Thick, smooth mouthfeel. Final and Rating #51 of my 2016 vacation. It was a helluva trip!
Everything I like in a scotch ale - not perfected, but there. Malty, big in body, fruity and slightly smoky. Smooth going down.
Not as flavorful as some other Scotch Ales that I have had but this one is really smooth with rich maltiness & a touch of smoky peat character. Silver City is becoming one of my favorite Washington breweries!
Woah. Love this. It's hard. Tastes like a scrap of leather. In a good way. Smells like alcohol. Very scotchy, I can almost taste scotch whiskey..peaty.
Draught at CBM. Starts off nicely with a silky body, pleasant scotch and smokey notes, then peat and tobacco kind of take over and finish is on the boozy side. Not the smoothest scotch ale, kind of struggled towards the end of the glass.
Tons of caramel and sweet malt here. Pours dark brown with ok head. Syrupy and sweet. Doesn’t come together well, a bit of a sweet mess. Tap at Seattle Taproom.
Had this in a can more recently and came together better. Tobacco and lemonbalm. prune. Easy drinking. Soft citrus pour. Some light astringency in finish but well integrated. Definitely a better beer than I had before. Or I'm a better beer drinker. Or something.
Draft. Mahogany brown pour, thin beige head. Aroma of toffee, brown sugar, a little booze. Fairly sweet taste, not overly. Slightly syrupy body.
Pours a deep brown with a very minimal light beige head. Lots of malt along with some caramel, tootsie roll and booze on the nose. Taste is fairly similar, but something weird is going on on the finish. The nose is great, but the taste doesn’t live up to it. Light peat on the palate as well as a slightly boozy finish that lingers.
Purchased at a bar at the Seattle airport. Pours a very dark brown with a lot of creamy off white head that slowly dissipates. Aromas of scotch, malts and something sweet. First sip is amazing. Good hint of scotch and very smooth taste. Has a good balance between the richness of heavy malts and the sweet flavors along with the peat scotch flavor.
Medium dark red with a beige head. Smoke right up front with a big chunk of caramel malt in the back. The smoke kind if kills most the other flavors. If you like em smokey this is for you.
Pours dark Amber with lots of head and lacing. Nose is scotch, some syrup. Medium body with lively carbonation. Taste med sweet light bitter.
Draft pour at Frankies pizza. Pours a really dark brown color with a creamy head. Sweet candy caramel aroma. Flavor has a touch of smokiness up front. Very sweet flavor though. Very nice addition to the style. Enjoyed this.
An interesting scotch ale, almost more like boozy apple juice then beer. Pours a beautiful deep clear red with a tan head that dissipates quickly. Smells of Apple, malt, and cedar. Taste is very much apple juice, less carbonated than cider. Tasty, but a bit one note.
Tap at Dig. Orange-brown color with lace. Faint malty nose, a bit smoky, caramel, dried fruits, raisins. Full body, smooth but a bit weird.
Thanx Steve.
This was poured into a thistle.
The appearance was a ruddy brown color with smooth level one finger white foamy head that dissipated within a minute. There was some light stringy lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell had some light peat flavors with a light smokiness running in and out of the aroma.
The taste was semi-sweet through some caramel malts, gets the peat to come back combined with the smokiness to blend fairly decently. There was a long smoky sweet aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat right at a medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. The carbonation had a smooth capability about it letting the smokiness control how it rolled over my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a good Scotch ale that I would have again.
Thanks to 5000 for sending me this bottle. The aroma is fairly boozy with some heavy peat malt notes. There is also some big dark fruit character. The flavor is kind of strange. It tastes a bit like grape soda with some light toffee and peat thrown in. Thin mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
Bottbottle thanks mora...Nose is peat, spice, caramel, cola...Taste is cola, caramel, grape skin,
Bottle (22oz): This is my current favorite Scotch Ale. Smooth and not to boozy.
-- rated with beerbasher/winphone
Update: Was rated 4.4 now 4.2.
Update (4/11/2015) Was 4.2 now 4.1. Just adjusting
On tap at Seattle Tap Room at SeaTac. Brown with ruby edges. Very thin tan head. Aroma is subtle - some sweet, but dark ripe fruit on the nose, sweet with a hint of tartness. Taste is sweet with a lot of the dark ripe fruit flavor coming forward along with toffee. Peat and smoke also present. Body is medium, mouthfeel is slick. Good scotch ale
Bomber from Hayduke that we had together via facebook chat. This looks like a cola. An earthy and malty aroma. That is tasted along with toffee, and soft fruit. A little whiskey. Moss and brown sugar. The earth is kind of lichen and mushrooms. Earth is the after taste but it is accompanied by brown sugar and lichen. I don’t love this style at all so my rating will reflect that. It did have a rich smooth feel.
Shared tasting with Strykzone on Facebook Chat. Pours a dark ruby red with a robust foamy tan head but no lacing. Nose is very malty with some ripe fruit. Medium in body. . Flavor is a very smooth and rich malt and there is vanilla, smoke or peat, and a hint of bourbon. Alcohol is well hidden. There is a little bitterness in the finish that works with the rich malts. This is quite a beer but almost overpowering. A sipper for sure.
Draught at Seattle Tap Room (Sea-Tac Airport)
Brown color, dark and clean, with small creamy head. Nutty beer, full bodied: good caramel component, with moderate sweetness; the aroma is too simple, the flavor quite nice; light fruity esters complete the picture in a pleasant way; correct bitterness. Could be mistaken for a Doppelbock as it’s very clean.
924 yen, on tap for a half-pint at Bakujun. Dark red almost onyx pour with a thin filmy beige head. Fruity plum, rich sweet malt aroma. Smooth slick but med-light body. Sweet malty beer, berries, caramel, toffee flavor. Very drinkable. My overall impression is this is an incredibly smooth scotch ale, well put together with no hint of the ABV it is packing...
Bottle thanks to Chris, my PNW hookup! Brown, slightly reddish pour with a nice tan head. Roasty malt nose - smelling more sweet than the beer actually tastes. Malty and complex without being too sweet and cloying. Some bitterness on the finish as well. This might be my favorite example of the style.
On tap at Brooklyn. Solid scotch ale with noticeable peat and liberal booziness. Malt-heavy, richly sweet.
Even, glassy red/black. Aroma is sweet, worty and alcoholic. Taste is a very suave, refined version of the aroma, with black cherry and bourbon notes. $6/22Oz
This. Beer. Is. Amazing. Poured from a 22oz bomber I snagged from Trader Joes in Bellingham into a Innis & Gunn thistle, it is a beautiful deep red/brown with a small off-white head. Looks similar to a cola or root beer.
Aroma is full of malt sweetness, with toffee, caramel and brown sugar notes. A hint of smoke and slight spice and booziness, as well as sasparilla (maybe?)
Taste follows the nose wonderfully with big, sweet malts dominating the palate. Caramel, toffee, and brown sugar coming on all at once. The smokiness that appeared shy-ly on the nose is much more evident here, playing nice with smooth fruity characteristics of raisins and prunes. A slight bitterness is also present, and no hop flavor is detectable. The alcohol is exceptionally well hidden, if I had to guess from a blind tasting I would put it around 6% but it is a whopping 9.2%. As it warms the raisin, prune and alcohol become a bit more prominent, as well as another flavor that is hard to discern. (Almost a sort of nuttiness)
The mouthfeel is smooth and slightly sticky with medium-low carbonation that compliments the flavor profile nicely.
Overall, probably the best scotch ale I’ve ever had the pleasure of consuming. (And I’ve tried very many) It remains complex and flavorful in a style of beer where it is all too easy to become one dimensional. Definitely one of my favorites.
Scotch being one of my favorite styles and Silver City being a local brewery... I really hoped I'd love this one! Unfortunately I only liked it. Probably won't buy it again as there are so many other really good offerings of the style out there.
Pours dark brown, huge light tan head.
Smell big smokey licorice and caramel, brown sugar.
Taste big malty, lots of toffee and brown sugar on the finsh
Big, robust
Great