Scotch ale

Younger's Scotch Ale label
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McEwan's Scotch Ale

Scotch ale is the Edinburgh version o Burton Pale Ale: daurk, wi a bittersweet, atimes slichtly metallic tang, an generally strang.[1] Scotch Ale wis first uised as a designation for strang ales exportir fae Edinburgh in the 18t century.[2] The term haes acome popular in the USA, whaur strang ales which micht can be available in Scotland unner a different name ar sauld in Americae as "Scotch Ale", for examplar, Caledonian's Edinburgh Strong Ale or Edinburgh Tattoo, is sauld in the USA as Edinburgh Scotch Ale.[3]

  1. http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/endangered-beers/
  2. The Younger Centuries, David Keir, 1951, p. 22
  3. Caledonian Edinburgh Scotch Ale from Caledonian (S&N, Heineken), an English Strong Ale style beer (in Inglis)

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