Episode 047 - Belhaven Scottish Ale, Fraoch Heather Ale

It's all Scotland this episode - from a nice, smoooooth Scottish Ale to a Heather Ale - perhaps the oldest beer recipe still in use, over 4000 years old! We talk about Scottish beer ratings in "shillings" - an outdated but still used beer measurement, and then all about the Gaelic tradition of Fraoch - or spiced "Heather" beers.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• ale
• beer
• belhaven
• bilotta
• fraoch
• gaelic
• heather
• johnnynines
• martorana
• philadelphia
• scottish
• shillings
• tgob
• twoguysonbeer

[kingSHTofFCKmtn]

Sugar is sugar. You can't boil it off... ever. Boiling longer creates un-fermentable sugars??? Not in this world.

[TwoGuysOnBeer]

@kingSHTofFCKmtn actually it does... unfermentable by beer yeasts, anyway. The more complex sugars - in this case, dextrins mostly - are "larger chain saccharides" and are much much harder to break down. While your gut certainly can break them down, beer yeasts cannot, so they remain unfermented in the beer, producing the smoothness that Scottish Ales are popular for.

[gvilleduck]

Dudes, great reviews. But "fraoch" is pronounced "frew-och" (with "och" made in your throat, rather than pronounced). Fraoch is Gaelic for "heather," the flowers with which it is brewed, rather than hops.

[TwoGuysOnBeer]

@gvilleduck yeah, sorry if that didn't come through. This is one of our earlier episodes - we've gotten comfortable in front of the camera, but were still a little weak on the dissemination of information. (We're also very weak still on foreign-language pronunciation, but that may be because we're both from Jersey ;) )

[toungewizzard83]

Fraoch is one of my favourite of our beers. Sláinte from the Highlands of Scotland!

[goheine]

This Beer, Heather Ale tastes very fresh and smooth!!! Slainte!!!

[seonidh]

Fraoch is not gaelic its Pictish one of the founding nations of scotland.

[sofakingdrunk66]

Heather Ale rocks....

[munsterr777]

Two really good beers! And also Fraoch is not made with

hops, only spices, just wonderful.

[DougJ]

Awesome review