 It's brutal battle beer break and today we're going to be doing actually a style I've not done on brutal battle beer break and I've had maybe one on the podcast itself but not a whole lot. It is a Scotch ale and it is a Scotch ale called Big Sound and it's by Cigar City Brewing out of Tampa, Florida. You can see Big Sound and I actually looked and there's no information on ABV for this beer so I'm wondering if it'll taste the stringent or not. We'll have to see what happens here because while I was setting up to record I actually knocked the bottle over so I'm hoping that when I open this up it's not gonna have an issue but we'll see. Oh thank goodness. Safe. All right let's pour a little bit of this bad boy. Oh yeah what I expected like a reddish brown hue to this beer. I mean that's what I expect from like a Scotch ale is like a red aspect to it but this is a nice reddish brown. There's an okay amount ahead for what you would assume is more of a viscous style beer. I can't really see through just because I have dark it is. It's filtered though but you know you can't see much. It just looks dark. It's got this nice sweet, sweet aspect to it. Some nice kind of cherry notes on the nose what I'm getting first. A slight bit of a raisininess but actually a lot more cherry. A little bit of a roasty maltiness. A little bit of a grassiness in there as well. Like there's some solid hopping added to this. It smells very clean though. You know there there are no aromas that they make a smell like funky or weird or it just smells like such a clean straightforward Scotch ale. I'm smelling a lot a lot a lot a lot of that cherry and it's like fresh cherries. It's not like canned cherries or maraschino or anything like that. It's like legitimate from the garden fresh cherries not tart maybe like bing cherries something like that but there's a nice sweetness really rounding it out. It smells really good. I'll try this. Yeah wow okay it's um it's not as viscous as I thought it would be but it's also not like extremely light so it's kind of like a medium body to it. I was expecting maybe of like a medium heavy body to it something like that but I get a lot of that kind of a raisiny aspect. I get that those cherry notes as well. Really gotta dissect this. Lots of cherry actually. I'm getting a little bit of that grassiness coming through as well. What's sticking around is that kind of cherry aspect mainly. A little bit of alcohol to it not anything too crazy but as far as Scotch ales ago I feel like a lot of Scotch ales have a tendency to get kind of sweet kind of alcohol-y. This is neither of those. This is dialing back the sweet, dialing back the alcohol. It's got a nice like legitimate kind of cherry flavor to it. The malts are very nice in it and like I said a little bit of like a grassy aspect to it. Not a ton but a little bit. Nice beer. Easy drinking as far as Scotch ales go. A lot of Scotch ales I've had before don't seem as easy drinking as this but actually as I'm sitting here I'm noticing I'm feeling a little bit of like an alcohol burn in my throat at the moment and it's funny because it wasn't there at all and then all of a sudden as I've been talking it's just slowly started kind of building and building and building. Not a bad thing at all but it lets me know there's some serious alcohol in it. I'll taste it but I can feel it after. So nicely crafted beer. Cigar City a lot of people love Cigar City and expect nicely crafted beers so this Scotch al big sound is no different than what people expect from Cigar City. Thanks so much Cigar City for making this beer. If anyone out there can get their hands on it I would recommend it so go ahead and find it if you can. I actually got this from the brew pub when my wife and I were down there recently so I know it's there so if you live in that area if not sorry you might not be able to find it but anyway thanks so much for checking this out everybody feel inspired. I like this beer I'm going to continue to sip on it so why don't you go and get yourself an awesome beer and enjoy. Thanks for checking it out.