Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailBarley's Scottish Ale

Scottish Ale is a lighter version of Scotch Ale, brewed for centuries in Scotland. (If you're curious about the history of these styles, go here.) We wanted to brew our Scottish a little different than many other examples of the style out there today. We theorized that if we turned on the brew kettle and heated it up before we sent the wort... ...to the kettle, it might just carmelize. We were right, and lucky for us, the kettle didn't crack. The result is MacLenny's Scottish Ale. It's even a little famous... On page 108 of Michael Jackson's Beer Companion, he writes, "In 1994, I tasted the orangey, toffeeish Scottish Ale, made by an interesting process of carmelization,, at Barley's brewpub in Columbus, Ohio. The kettle was turned on while still empty, then the wort was added. This is a potentially dangerous procedure: don't try this at home." If it's good enough for Michael Jackson to mention, it's good enough for us. Must be for you too--it's our number one seller.