McEwan’s India Pale Ale

Brewed by Wells & Youngs
Style: Bitter
Bedford, England

Serve in English pint

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An amber beer with a fine head thogh fast disappearing. The aroma is slightly fruity with hints of spices. It has a good malt sweetness, but is only slightly bitter - not like an IPA - but OK for a light ale.

(Bottle 33 cl) Beautiful amber beer with a rather limited head. Soft, caramel notes with a weak sweetness and a touch of smoke. Limited bitterness. Decent but rather average. 210900

Bottled. Dark copper coloured, small foamy white head. Fruity aroma with some hoppy hints. Flavour quite sweet hoppy bitterish. Not much IPA in this one, rather a very sweet bitter... Long hoppy aftertaste with some caramellish and hayish hints. Toffee in aftertaste too.

Clean amber color. Difficult to believe it's a real IPA, with such poor character, from the aroma to the flavor, with an uncommon white sugar note mixed with some malt; the bitterness is just sufficient, and no hop aroma. Still some sweetness in the palate, along with the bitterness (artificial sweetners?).

Name: McEwan’s IPA
Date: 04/08/2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta

dark amber, whispy head, sweet carael malt aroma and flavor, just a touch of bitterness in the finish,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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(Bottle) Pours dark amber body with a moderate off-white head. Aroma of caramel, fruit, grass, and hops. Flavor of malt, earthiness, and caramel. Blah...

Bottled, alc. 4.5% (BB 01/2006)
Copper brown, small off-white head. Woody, burnt caramelly aroma. Toffeeish, burnt flavor. Light, sweetish aftertaste. Only IPA by its name.

Clear copper body topped by medium off-white head. Aroma is light -- light sweet, caramel, slightly skunked. Taste is light sweet, caramel, some earthy, light peat. Watery, light-medium body.

12oz bottle-pours a head of white bubbles and copper/brown color. Aroma is medium malt-some caramel/brown sugar. Taste is dark/medium malt-some caramel/brown sugar, secondary/faint hops bite. An easy drinking beer but not much hops, so I enjoyed it but not an IPA.

Bottle. Brown amber with a faor head. Malty and hoppy aroma. Thye flavour has a nice hoppiness, good maltiness, slight sourish and with a little nuttiness. Bitter finish. Not an IPA at all.