McNeills Champ Ale

Brewed by McNeills Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Brattleboro, Vermont USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy amber, small head. Piney tangerine aroma. Sweetish with light body and clean, spritzy mouthfeel. Crystal malt and pine needles. Diluted orangy hops, some resiny bitterness. Shallow malt character, odd hops.

(Draught) Pours a hazy deep amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of toasted grain, floral, grass, and caramel. Flavor of hops (grass, grapefruit, herbal, light pine), toasted grain, and caramel malt.

Lightly hazed golden body topped by beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, some mustiness. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, some spice. Medium bitterness. Watery medium body.

on tap-pours a white head that laces and hazy gold color. Aroma is citrus, secondary light malt. Taste is citrus-lemon/grapefruit with some bitter, secondary light malt.

Bomber from Carl. Pours amber with a large creamy off-white head. Aroma is a bit perfume - could be grape I suppose. Med body. Foamy carb. It’s a little floral, a little fruity, and a touch of grape is possible, but I’d vote for floral and citrus. The malt is present, but not strongly roasted. I’m thinking more ESB than APA.

22 oz bomber from the brewery. Light amber beer. Aroma is lightly orangey and peachy with a strong house yeast sweet estery character. Lightly dusty and orangey with a touch of phenolic character. Peach and orange flavour with a decent balance of fruity grapefruity hops and pale malt. The dustiness is fairly distracting and doesn’t really work in this pale ale. The house character of this yeast just comes across as dirty and it doesn’t really work for me. It’s better obscured in some beers than others, but in this it’s got nowhere to hide.

Pours a light copper with a thick eggshell-colored head. Fresh, clean hoppy aroma blanced with lots of sweet caramel malt. Great tasting sweet butterscotch body well balanced with a piney hop bitterness. Very smooth, refreshing and drinkable.

A solid drinkable pale. Enough C hops to give off a citrus smell, great big creamy long-lasting head. Well malted, good with lunch. Citrus taste and aftertaste dominated. Not too bitter

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2009 Proud earthy, floral hops sliding slowly on the tongue, providing decent wooden bitterness...Delicate caramelized cereals tag along with friendly citrus fruit…A fine quencher, like most of McNeill’s ales...

Hazy orangy dark straw hue, with noble hop, pale malt, grainy notes in the aroma. The palate is complex, giving unfiltered flavors of hops, malt, some slight peachy fruit. As with all beers from these guys, this one is very well done.