Slop Bucket Double Brown
McNeill's Brewery in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.03
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Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a semi-dark brown color with a gusher of a head again. I lost count of how many fingers I could use to align to the foaminess to equate to the size of the head. Lace was strewn about like a bunch of ducks on a pond.
The aroma had the apple cider vinegar sour quality bold and up front with eye popping red wine tones.
The flavor brought the same sour and claimed the aftertaste and finish in the same sort of manner.
The feel was between light and medium bodied. No signs of sessionability about this. My tongue was fairly singed by the last one.
Overall, not sure what else to say. But if anything I am a bit sad a brewery of my own state is slipping.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the pub. I really like this mug of beer. Smell is quite neutral and the look is darker brown. Some co2 carries you thru. Mild and fun, easy a reserved. Nice stuff. Not bad! A simple friendly enjoyable brew with a tad of roasty impressions and ever so slight bitterness. God job McNeill.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled off of the picnic table at Dark Lord Day - brown ale? not really tasty? you bet - quite dry and herbal, yet slightly cocoa-like, too - abundant hops, and a kind of orange/cranberry jam thing going on - one of the more unique beers of the day.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Slop Bucket Double Brown from McNeill's Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
2005 bottle from City Market. Consumed on 4/26/2005. Pours a medium brown, copper-amber, bottle conditioned with a moderate amount of dark beige head, fair retention and lacing. Smells of earthy, musty yeast, dry toffee and heavily toasted malts. Bitter bakers chocolate and more dirty soil notes. Flavor begins with a dry, dirty, almost astringent sort of over-kilned maltiness, not sweet at all, almost cardboardy in texture. Yeast is quite present, low bittering hops and some bits of dark chocolate. As it warms and breathes, the zesty carbonation dies down, allowing a bit more continuous malt flavor to develop, and it sweetens, to some extent, with some toffee and chocolate. But I never can shake that oily, over-roasted malt astringency and the dirty flavored yeast is not terribly pleasant either. A bit watery of a body, highly attenuated flavor but, of course, a good mouthfeel as almost all McNeills beers have. Retronasal has more sweet milk chocolate than I ever found in the body, which is strange.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Slop Bucket Double Brown from McNeill's Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brown ale with a moka head. Caramel and porto in aroma, with light hops. Smooth sweet malt with torrefied coffee beans, caramel and molasses. Nice hops in finish. Good rich body. Dec. 2004.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Slop Bucket Double Brown from McNeill's Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Muddy dark chestnut. Nutty aroma, slightly vinous, toffeeish, almondy. Strongish flavour, a mix of sweetness and earth tones. Bark-like in its bitterness, a slightly disconcerting effect that highlights the lack of direction this beer has.