McNeills Old Ringworm

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

Bottle. Dark ruby colour with a big beige head. Yeast, chocolate and hops aroma and taste, sweet. Medium body with a dry light sour finish.

Blind rating at sk8viking´s. Pours a hazy dark amber with nice lacings. Tastes earthy and sourish. Infected? Medium to full bodied. Short, slightly dry finish.

Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a thin bubbly orange head. The aroma is sweet with notes of chocolate, citrus, and hops. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of citrus, but also hops. I find the body a bit thin - inspite of the 9% ABV - lack of residual sugar?

22oz bottle. Poured a medium and cloudy amberish / brown color with an averaged sized off white head. Lots of smaller floaters. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, yeast, toffee, and somewhat earthy. Also reminded me of those root beer candies. Tastes of earth, caramel, toffee, and dark fruits (plums and raisins). Lively body.

Bottle... Hazy, deep amber ale with a small, rocky head. Sticky, ink-blot lace. Aromas of brown sugar, caramel, butter (ringwood yeast?), light molasses and citrus fruit. Rich, malty sweet, toffee, grassy flavor. Medium-bodied and syrupy with medium carbonation. Lengthy, bitter-sweet finish. A little too sweet for me at the moment. Still, a quality brew.

Bottle. Nose-tobacco, wet leaves, caramel malts. Brown body with a medium ring of bubbles and a thin film of bubbles. Taste-medium bitter, cheap watered down coffee, light malt vinegar, mint on the finish.

Turbid muddy brown pour, with aroma of heavy figgy fruit, cabernet, brown sugar, caramel malt, and rauchy notes. Tastes dense on the palate, with flavors of figgy fruit, cabernet, caramel malt, brown sugar. Smooth but thisone packs a punch toward the finish.

A beer for cigar lovers. Nose is mostly tobacco and wet leaves. A honey appearance is set against a nice citric hoppiness.