Ølfabrikken Gæstebryg #2 - McWilder

Formerly brewed at Bryggeriet Ølfabrikken (Gourmetbryggeriet)
Style: Scottish Ale
Roskilde, Denmark

Bottle at ZBF courtesy of Martin, Martin, and Jacob. Brown bodied. Small tanned head. Nose is delicious! Smoky, peaty notes, light dried fruit aromas, roasted malts, and a some choco notes. Taste expands on the aroma a bit. Nice blend of the smoky/peaty flavors, with a touch of cocoa, light chocolate, roasty malts, and pleasant fruit flavors. Body is medium with a light carbonation feel. Finishes with a better maltiness, more peaty flavors, light cocoa, and fruits. I liked this!

Bottled. Deep amber coloured. Hazy. Small brownish dense head. Smoky, fruity and somewhat roasty nose. Flavour is smoked, has light chocolatenotes, a bit fruity and has a ligth sour note. Is quite light bodied, but not thin. Has a vague bitterness in the end. Definately not the most interesting beer from Ølfabrikken, but I still find some qualities.

Bottle. Hazy brown coloured with a beige head. Sweet malty aroma with fruity notes and strange roasted notes (ashtray). Sweet flavour of malts and caramel with fruity and roasted notes.

Hazy chestnut brown; small yellowish head. Scorched peanuts, toast, Dutch peanut-covered cookies, Café Noir in the nose. Smoked taste, both coffee and cigar ash. Sweet, and roasted bitterness. Bit thinnish MF, not at all Porter - more like a British mild on draught. Poor mashing? Not bad, but thinnish for its style.
Thanks to the Danish mob!

Bottle (ZBF06): Brown with a beige head. Choc and roast in the nose, with some grassy hop notes. Malty, choc flavour with spicy hop finish. Almost a little smoke in there. Tasty.

Warm and hazy deep brown beer with a small beige head. Interesting nutty nose with a good floral and sweet herby caracter. Taste is delicate and quit elegant for the style. It is malty, smooth bitter, slight burned, honeyed and has an explosion of wild flowers. Afthertaste is interesting and ends with a longlasting flowery bitterness. Not a heavey one but a fine and elegant Scotch ale.

Maybe there where another beer in the bottle of Macwilder I just finished, I totally disagree with everybody else who tasted this beer. My Macwilder had a big and complex nose first of chocolate, then dry notes of cacao and coffee, spicy hoppy notes are to be found as well; The body was big, soft with medium full bitter freshness; The finish was long and soft with a little bitterness to it, again clear notes of chocolate, with dry, bitter coffee in the late finish. I am not very experienced in Scottish ale, so this might not be a typical one. But even the last drop which I just licked out of my glass was part of a very good beer though. By the way; The best beer I have had from Ølfabrikken yet!

A slightly hazy deep red beer with a huge brown head. The aroma is sweet and quite fruity - like fruit stored in a wooden barrel for a long time, as well as a very faint hint of smoke. The flavor is sweet but with a sour back ground - I think the sourness stems from the malt, with strong notes of straw, but also prunes, wood, caramel, and a somewhat weird herbal note. The aftertaste reveals a faint hint of smoke, but then the weird herbal note comes back at You. I find it going in too many directions at once. It definately gets better, if it is enjoyed together with single malt whiskey as is recommended on the label - but that doesn’t make the beer better - it just over powers the weird herbal notes.