McNeills Tartan Export Ale

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

Pours turbid deep brown, with aroma of caramel malt, some figgy fruit, slight banana and spicy floral notes. The aroma and flavor is a lot like Stone 666. It has more fruit than most scottish ales, with the heavy malt component.

Sept 02, 22oz bottle: Pours beautifully, bubbly and foamy, dark brown and rich; eventually a very large head forms, which when settled leaves a lot of lacing. Aroma reminiscent of a sweet brown ale; hazelnutty, very malty, molasses -- but rather on the weak side. Flavor smoky, sweet, little carbonation, earthy, grassy, hoppy towards the end; quite complex but a little too much competition in the flavors. Body moderately full, finish long and bitter. Very interesting concoction from Ray McNeill, but not one of his most successful.

Jan 03: It's a super-cold depressing lonely Friday evening, and the ultra-sugary maltiness is much more appealing now. I love the creme brulee overtones and the earthy undertones; this is a beer for -5 degrees if you're not going for an Imp Stout or Barley Wine.

This scottish ale pours with a deep amber brown body topped by a medium thick head with some lacing. The aroma and flavor ae both sweet and malty with a great roasty note and a touch of fruit. Medium to full bodied, smooth and a touch dry.

Pours amber. Aroma of bread, marshmellows, and tabasco. Flavor is much the same. Odd but I am glad I tried it.

Sweet carmelized toffee aroma with herbal, leafy notes. Opaque dark brown with lighter highlights is topped by a dense, fine-bubbled tan head. Earthy, chocolatey, carmelized malt flavour that gets a slight farmhouse/smokey feel as it warms. Fair bitterness. Bittersweet chocolate lasts in the aftertaste. Medium body with moderate carbonation feels somwhat full in the mouth. On tap at the brewpub with MartinT, muzzlehatch and Rastacouere.

Arômes et saveurs de porto, de raisins... Houblon très floral soutenant magnifiquement bien le malt.

From a 1 pint 6 fl. oz (US) bottle - hand brewed and individually bottled with a cheap glued on label that looked like someone designed it on a sketch pad. Carmelized in the kettle. Pours amber red with a beige puffy head that stays around for the session. Aroma of malts and some kind of fruity sweetness. The flavor was more of hops. It was a very good brew and probably hand delivered earlier that week to the bottle store in Vermont where I bought it.

Deep chestnut brown with a large creamy small-bubbled off-white head. Starts and ends sweet with a long caramel aftertaste, sweet malts in the aroma. Full bodied and creamy without much carbonation.