McEwans Scotch Ale

Brewed by John Smiths (Heineken UK)
Style: Scotch Ale
Tadcaster, England

Serve in Thistle

Bottle Tampa Scotch Ale Blind Tasting. Pours a brown amber a light tan head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel, lightly earthy, and slightly vinous. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium full mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and well hidden alcohol. Very good.

12oz Bottle - Gravity Beer Market - Olympia, WA
Aroma – Nice Scotch ale aroma good balance of malts and hops.
Appearance – Golden in color, Nice thin head and clear.
Flavor – Malty with a good hint of hops in the flavor this was a good rendition of a traditional scotch ale. .
Palate – Nice Mouthfeel, great texture with a good dry finish.
Overall – A great beer and for St Paddy’s day this was the beer to drink.

Very dark golden pour with an aroma of molasses, butter, and malt. Taste is very powerful with malt and molasses. There is also a decent taste of dark fruit. Real tasty and worth another purchase.

A beer that is dark liquidy brown in appearance. Pours with no fuss, (little yeast) Only a small less than 1 inch light tan head remains, that dimishes after 10 minutes. The ale is not cloudy, but almost too dark to see through, though you barely can. It’s most powerful aroma is of carmel, then alcohol, then peatty smoke. The draw excites all the tastesbuds. It’s sweet and toffee-like, and smooth, and finishes with a little citrus zest, unnaturally. Then the aftertaste of smoky caramel remains. The beer gives off a little burn in the chest almost a minute later. This seems like it would be a good warming ale during the winter.

pours black with a few brown bubbles. malty sweet aroma, with a hint of alcohol. chocolate, coffee, raisins, and an ’earthiness’. bitter coffee finish.

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This dark brown ale poured with a decent tan head that disappeared rather quickly. There is a rich smoky chocolate malt flavor with a smooth chalky finish.

Pours a dark brown color. No head. Aroma of sweet dark fruits, chocolate, toffee and a touch of salty meat. Medium sweetness with flavors of chocolate, dark fruits, toffee, smoke, and salt. A chocolate malt flavor lingers, as does some salt and alcohol.

Poured a deep brown color with little head that dissipated pretty quickly. Aroma is of sweet maltiness with chocolate and caramel notes. Flavor is also of chocolate and caramel maltiness. Mouthfeel is good a bit on the thick side. Drinkability is ok. This is to be savored not sessioned.