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SkullSplitter Strong Scottish Ale

If you coast down hill from my house, at the bottom of the hill you will be in "Historic Ellicott City" which I refer to as the "Ellicott City Slum". The jewel of the Slum is the Phoenix Emporium which has a beer menu. We trek down there at least once a month and I always have a different beer. This month it was SkullSplitter, a Strong Scottish Ale. To paraphrase "The Three Dog Night", I've never been to heaven, but I've had a bottle of SkullSplitter! Smooth, thick, roasted malt taste with fruit overtones.

A month or two ago, I had Tusker, an East-African Lager. So it was made with barley rather than grain sorghum and was low on fillers. A great session beer if it weren't for the price.

Dick

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Dick Adams
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"Skullsplitter" is not a bad beer, but I find it's not nearly as good as "Robert The Bruce".

Now we differ greatly... "Tusker", despite the appealing elephant label, has always tasted like dishwater to me!

Reply to
Garrison Hilliard

Not to nitpick, but Skul Splitter is a strong scotch ale, not a scottish ale. Still, both it and RtB are very good beers...not as good as my scotch ale, but very good beers none the less.

Phil

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Phil

Not to nit pick your nit picking but according to the brewers web site, here

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kullsplitter is described as a "Scottish" ale. Usually "scotch" refers to the distilled spirit and all my friends from Scotland would bristle if anyone ever referred to them as being "Scotch" and not Scottish.

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Doug Brown

Not to nitpick on your nitpicking on the nitpicking, etc...

I'm referring to the BJCP guidelines, which would make Skull Splitter a strong scotch ale. This style, btw, doesn't refer to distilling. It's basically a stronger version of a Scottish ale.

the Orkey Brewery site, you listed, was just contact information. It didn't describe beer or anything.

Phil

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Phil

BJCP guidelines are fine for sanctioned homebrew competitions in the USofA, but I'd personally allow brewers to call beers whatever they like (within reason). In this case, "Scottish" is quite accurately used as an adjective.

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Joel

I would go along with brewers categorizing their beers, but there are a number of breweries that slap a label on a beer that are completely inaccurate. An example of this is Bert Grant's Scottish Ale. This beer was not at all like a Scottish/Scotch Ale and was call this because Grant, himself, was Scottish.

The nitpicking ends now.

Phil

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Phil

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