McNeills Firehouse Amber

Brewed by McNeills Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Brattleboro, Vermont USA

Medium-large tan head atop a floatie-filled, opaque copper body. Aroma is medium sweet, orange, bread. Taste is medium sweet, bready up top, before turning medium orange/citrus bitter. Medium body. Nice balanced beer.

(Draught) Pours an amber body with a small white head. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel, light floral, and nuts. Flavor of nuts, caramel, breadiness, mild hops, and toasted malt.

22oz bottle, best before the end of October. Poured a medium and cloudy amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, burnt nuts, flowers and some citrus. Tastes of caramel, oranges and flowers. Creamy body that was a little on the weak side.

on tap-pours a retaining white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is sweet light malt. Taste is sweet light malt, tart fruit, some perfumy.

Objectively speaking: A rather hoppy amber ale that was not as clean as I could have hoped.
I like: Generous toasty aspirations. Interesting dried fruits sweetness. Drying out rapidly.
I dislike: Rather soapy hop character undermines the earthy, sweet and caramelized malt qualities. Quite a fruity ale, but not very clean with an oldish yeast feel that feels metallic and.. mushroomy?.

High flying, resinous hop darts giving a ride to a few chile peppers...A peaceful, cask-like feel smothered in caramel oranges smoothens the hops' initial belligerence...A light, quaffable hop juice to warm the heart and tongue...

Pours caramelly with a thin white head and some visable carbonation. Tastes chewy and caramelly with some peppery notes and a bitter finish. No discernable aromas to speak of.

Turbid coppery pour with aroma of hops, caramel malt, some fruit and brown sugar. Tastes caramel malty, with some bready notes, some hops, honey, and fruit. Very complex and extremely well balanced.