Town Hall Hope and King Scotch Ale
Hope and King is a full-body brew and is rich in malt complexity. Brewed with both English and American barley and many, many specialty malts this deeply colored ale has hints of roasted chocolate, caramel and raisins with very little hop presence. Our interpretation of the classic ale that originated in Glasgow, Scotland.
3.5
156 reviews
Minneapolis, United States
Community reviews
Had it on tap at Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis! This definitely fits its description, rich in its malt complexity. Definitely a heavy tasting beer, dark amber hue, malt rye aroma, and that complex malt taste with a rye chaser.
This was one of my favorites sampled at Town Hall brewery while visiting Minneapolis. Very malt heavy, with some barley and toffee notes. Finish is clean but wet with booze, a little scotch and a nice blend. Super!
Nice addition to the house sampler. It was very malt heavy and nice and smooth. Overall, not bad.
On tap at Town Hall. Pours a clear reddish brown color with white head. Toasty, toffee, nutty, caramel flavors.
Tap at brewery. Pours copper with malty aroma. Taste is malts with some fruity sweetness
Roasted malt nose. Toffee and chocolate palate. Finish is really smooth. Really nice beer
Tap. Pours clear reddish amber with a small beige head and nice lacing. Aroma is tons or caramel and toffee, with a grainy note in the background, as well as a bit of raisin. Flavor is medium sweet with notes of chocolate coming through as it warms. Medium body.
Brown pour, light head. Peat, caramel, toffee, light buttery aroma. Flavor is bready, peat, pears, toasted grains.
On cask at the brewpub; they were out of the fifth seasonal so this is what I got in that taster. Pours a deep, clear-amber color with almost no head. Notes of caramel, dark fruits, brown sugar, toffee, and a very faint peaty note. The nose pops more than the flavor. Medium-bodied, with low carbonation and a smooth, sweet mouthfeel. Nice Scotch ale and the cask treatment works well for it for the most part.
On tap as part of the sampler tray. Reddish colour. Bit metallic but enjoyable.
On tap at Town Hall Brewery. Malty, toasty nose with some candy (toffee) and a bit of coffee. Copper-red, mahogany -- very pretty. Mild sweet roastiness in intiial; chocolate come out in mid palate; somewhat medicinal and candy-like final. Medium body, a bit sticky. Made well, but doesn’t have much character.
on tap at TH 20Aug2012, Strong nose and taste of malt and even some peat, smokiness though those flavors are overbearing as i find no sweet touches of dark fruits here.
Tap. Dark copper/brown pour, a little carbonation and a nice sweet malty aroma. Flavor is also good and malty, a little raisins and sweet and earthy aftertaste. Decent.
Caramel, Peated Scotch, Toffee and Burnt Malts with just a hint of chocolate. Easy to drink and fairly tasty Scotch Ale overall.
Draft at Town Hall. Pours clear deep scotch-tawny. Medium-thick off-white head, soft lacing. Nose is smoke, caramel-coated fruit, salt, bacon; Flavours of tart jam-berry, round salty caramel, smoked meat, spice. Sweet and sticky finish. Real tasty.
Sampler at the brewpub. It poured a dark brown color with a thin off-white head. The aroma was of sweet plums and candy canes. The flavor was a rich, smokey, deep oakey flavor, with some earthiness. A very good Scotch Ale.
On tap at Town Hall, Minneapolis. Dark brown colour. Quite malty, no bitterness.
Date: November 12, 2011 Mode: Draft Source: Town Hall Taps
Semi-opaque brown, malty, caramel, and dark fruit in aroma and taste, some carbonation which I could have done without.
On tap at Town Hall. Clear mahogany with a medium tan topper. Aroma of peated malts, toffee, caramel and mild chocolate. Taste of toffee, sweet malt, peat, light fruit and mild sugar. Drinkable.
Really a comforting beer and it screams scotch ale to me except for a bitterness that appears at the end and more so as it warms. Dark clear brown with amber edges and disippating head and nice lacing. Smell at first is of delicate grassy field, light toffee a caramel malt. Taste immediately sweet, then fruity esters, and then a dry malt and familiar scotch ale something, the mouthfeel is really full, creamy and gentle corbonation. It ends with a little butterscotch then a bitterness that appears out of no where but calms down to a satisfying and complex linger.
This was my first beer enjoyed at this attractive brewpub on Washington Street. The ale was served in a 10 oz glass. The deep mahagoney color and small head were very inviting. The aroma was of burnt malts and some toasted chocolate. The toasted notes do not last. The ale has a thin body and no taste of hops. This was a fun drink to evaluate.
Poured from a tap into a pint at Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis, Minn. Color was malty and dark looking. About ¾-inch of head.
Smells included amber, malts, caramel and bitterness.
Tasted immediately like caramel or toffee. Malts came in there, too. Smooth taste.
Nice mouthfeel. Very low carbonation and a smooth finish.
So glad I picked this beer after being a bit disappointed with the West Bank Pub Ale. Check it out if you are in the Twin Cities area.
On tap at MTHB. Dark red/brown appearance with a creamy light tan. Sweet dark caramel malty, scotch ale aroma. Slightly nutty, quite sweet caramel malty flavor. Pretty tasty beer. Update: tasted again at GABF and it was still fucken chill.
Decent, had a 5 oz pour. They really made a point not ot have hops in here, it is roasty, caramally, and rasiny, but it could have used a hint more smoke.
On tap at the brewpub. Clear deep reddish brown in color with a small off-white head. The aroma just jumps out of the glass - big and malt-forward with caramel, toffee, mild toast, and an ever so slight peatiness. Maybe a hint of fruitiness. The flavor is excellent, with caramel, peat smoke, toasted notes, chocolate, and some dark fruits. Sweet, as the style should be, but not too much so. Medium-full bodied with lower carbonation and a smooth, somewhat slick mouthfeel. Very good overall.
Sampled on tap at the brewpub (Minneapolis, MN). Pours a nice lightly hazed dark brownish hue amber sunset edges, a small frothy offwhite head dies to a ring, laces small. Aromas are sweet caramel, toffee, vanilla, peaty malts, cherries, and a faint cocoa waft. Initial is cherries, sweet cocoa, toffee and caramel is bigger. Vanilla, toffee, sweet malts. With touches of toast, cocoa, fairly sweet cherry appeal with no smoke. Finish is lingering sweetness, touch of bitterness. Ok. A bit sweet for my palate with that whole sweet cherry and vanilla thing, toffee, maybe even some cough syrup
Draft at Town Hall. Pours a deep amber with fluffy white head. Nose is rich and full of cocoa. Very clean fermentation, light fruity esters. No hop notes in the nose. Some light caramel and soda bread as well. On taste, more of those roasty hints with a full malt profile and again, clean fermentation. Light fruitiness and finishes pretty dry. Very solid.
Tap. Dark amber pour. Aroma of malt and caramel. Taste of caramel, toffee, and butter. Smooth palate. Flavor is a bit thin.
Draft at Town Hall. Stained glass brown-amber color. Thin oily head. Malty, caramel laced aroma. Mellow carbonation. Lots of subtle brown and caramel malt notes. Faint hopping gives it some character. Pretty nice. A subtle beast. Soft on the palate. Orange caramel finish.
On tap at the brewpub. Poured clear sunset orange with a near white head that dissipated to the edges and laced slightly. Aroma had notes of earthy grains, caramel, toffee and a hint of backing alcohol. Flavor started with earthy grains and was joined a light caramel note with a bit of underlying alcohol.