The Einstök Icelandic Wee Heavy is a powerful, complex Scotch Ale with 8% ABV from Einstök Ölgerð in Akureyri, which fascinatingly unites the thousand-year-old connection between Iceland and Scotland in one bottle – created in collaboration with the award-winning Icelandic Eimverk Distillery and brewed with locally grown barley smoked over birch wood as well as angelica, a legendary Icelandic medicinal plant that was once so valuable it served as currency. In the glass, it presents itself in a deep chestnut brown with a velvety cream-colored foam crown, while a seductive bouquet of sweet malt, caramel, cocoa, and fine birch smoke notes transitions into a lush, full-bodied, and surprisingly balanced palate with notes of toffee, dried fruits, and a gently spicy angelica sweetness, which, despite the strong alcohol content, finishes elegantly and harmoniously. The Einstök Wee Heavy is the perfect choice for anyone seeking a high-quality, aromatically profound, and uniquely Icelandic Scotch Ale that convinces as a meditative enjoyment on cool evenings, as a companion to game dishes, smoked fish, and aged cheeses, as well as an unmistakable proof that Iceland knows how to redefine Scottish brewing art with Nordic wildness and Viking soul in an incomparable way.
