Beer Monkey
11-17-2005, 11:56 AM
got an email from Founders Brewer about upcoming events the one on the 3rd of December looks interesting.
EMAIL BELOW:
Greetings, Lads and Lassies!
I've just put the Ramsay's Draft 80 Schilling Scottish Ale on tap today. It's an easy drrrrinking (say it with a brogue) ale, light bodied and malty.
Get out your pens and mark your calendar in big red letters for:
Wednesday, Nov 30th -- First Pour of Burke's Bock. Lovely dark weizenbock beer to get your strength up for winter.
Saturday, Dec 3rd -- In honor of the Scottish Walk, we'll be tapping two special beers. First is a cask-aged firkin of Ramsay's Draft 80 Schilling Ale. It has been mellowing for 11 months. Second, we saved a keg of Margaret's Scotch Ale from the batch that won Great American Beer Festival in 2004, and we're ready to drink it. We'll also have on tap fresh batches of the two styles. Drink one of each, compare, contrast, and discuss amongst yourselves.
Beer Styles Lesson:
Scottish ales are typically malty, with little to no hop flavor. Hops don't flourish in Scotland as they do in England. Scottish brewers saw it as a point of pride to scorn English products, so they made malt the focus of their beers. Breweries list their products in ascending order of gravity and strength as Light, Heavy, Export and Strong. In the past, beer in Scotland was taxed based on strength, so the beers became known by their tax ratings: 60 schilling, 70 schilling, 80 schilling, 90 schilling. Alcohol content by volume might rise through 3, 4, 4.5 and 7-10. The term "Scotch ale" is something used specifically to identify a very strong, and often extremely dark, malt-accented beer. Scotch ale is sometimes called "Wee Heavy", in the Scottish style for understatement.
Here's mud in your eye,
Barbara
EMAIL BELOW:
Greetings, Lads and Lassies!
I've just put the Ramsay's Draft 80 Schilling Scottish Ale on tap today. It's an easy drrrrinking (say it with a brogue) ale, light bodied and malty.
Get out your pens and mark your calendar in big red letters for:
Wednesday, Nov 30th -- First Pour of Burke's Bock. Lovely dark weizenbock beer to get your strength up for winter.
Saturday, Dec 3rd -- In honor of the Scottish Walk, we'll be tapping two special beers. First is a cask-aged firkin of Ramsay's Draft 80 Schilling Ale. It has been mellowing for 11 months. Second, we saved a keg of Margaret's Scotch Ale from the batch that won Great American Beer Festival in 2004, and we're ready to drink it. We'll also have on tap fresh batches of the two styles. Drink one of each, compare, contrast, and discuss amongst yourselves.
Beer Styles Lesson:
Scottish ales are typically malty, with little to no hop flavor. Hops don't flourish in Scotland as they do in England. Scottish brewers saw it as a point of pride to scorn English products, so they made malt the focus of their beers. Breweries list their products in ascending order of gravity and strength as Light, Heavy, Export and Strong. In the past, beer in Scotland was taxed based on strength, so the beers became known by their tax ratings: 60 schilling, 70 schilling, 80 schilling, 90 schilling. Alcohol content by volume might rise through 3, 4, 4.5 and 7-10. The term "Scotch ale" is something used specifically to identify a very strong, and often extremely dark, malt-accented beer. Scotch ale is sometimes called "Wee Heavy", in the Scottish style for understatement.
Here's mud in your eye,
Barbara