Professor Brewheads Brown Ale

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a rugged semi-dark amber color with an enormous-I-lost-count-of-fingers worth of white foamy head. Yeah, it was a gusher. Was damn hard to review too because of this.
The aroma, well, hmmmmm....apple cider vinegar, cardboard and stale bread.
The flavor was sour taking the previously mentioned aromas to the extreme. Aftertaste was even in the same context.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with no ability to have any sort of sessionable trait to it. Carbonation, well, guessing by my initial statement, do you think I felt it? Damn right I did.
Overall, is it time for McNeill’s to hang it up. I’m guessing so. Beer is different these days and not many can hang anymore.

Draught pint at McNeill’s, 2/18/06 with Muzzlehatch. Dark, drab, olivine brown colored body with a small sandy to light tan colored head that immediately runs to the edges, providing no lacing. Fairly hazy body, though the longer it sits, it settles out and is not opaque. The nose smells of dark, dried plums, strong, wet straw that has begun to get moldy and light peanut skins. Notes of light cola sweetness (faint) and a rather dirty yeastiness, I don’t want to say lactobacillius, but then maybe I do. . .
The flavor, unfortunately, is almost fully attenuated, with dry, soily and moldy hay-like notes. The carbonation has not vanished, though, with still a low, tingling bit of bubbles remaining to bolster the sagging mouthfeel. Used tea leaf-like dryness/astringency, with a spreading grapiness that seems to eventually dominate. Some type of infection in the beginning to middle stages has caught on which is mildly lactic and beginning to hint at light balsamic vinegar notes. Did not finish my pint. Yay, my first infected draught from McNeill’s! I feel like a proud parent.