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by macresarf1
Dear andaryl: Some years ago, while staying at the wonderful ancient Hotel Belmar in Mazatlan, one night the bartender Eugenio produced some coasters, inscribed McTarnahan's Ale, to put under our Pacifico's. I asked him where they came from, and he told me an old man off a cruise boat had stayed at the hotel a few weeks before. The man told him he brewed this beer in Norte Occidentales de Estados Unidos. I inquired if Eugenio had ever tasted the beer. No, he said, but the man had also given him a case of the beer as a tip. Would we like to try a bottle? He produced a couple of Mctarnahans from his cooler, which he offered to us free, saying that he had paid nothing for them. And so, we had our first McTarnahan's.
Salud.
[Macresarf1]
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Oct 05 '01
1:51 pm PDT
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Re: Now+wait+a+minute... (Reply to this comment)
by andaryl
I haven't much knowledge on the Scottish stuff but isn't it peated malt that give some a smoky flavor. I'm sure I remember it in Belhaven, but will have to drink again and check. I really don't remember McEwan's which is the only other I can recall tasting. As for this one I thought a couple of reviews mentioning smokiness were a stretch and probably just the roasted malt.
I have next to no knowledge of New England ales but just teamed up with John (bruguru) to do some east/west trades.
Cheers
Andrew
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Sep 08 '01
11:32 am PDT
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I have had . . . (Reply to this comment)
by gungian
. . . more than one McTarnahan's.
[The unit of issue is CASE isn't it?]
Nice posting.
Write On!
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Sep 08 '01
7:05 am PDT
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Now wait a minute... (Reply to this comment)
by beerfly
If you want a center of British-type ales in America, you need to go to New England, not the PacNorthWest. In New England, they actually attempt to brew true to Brit-style, as proved by Shipyard, Geary, Tremont, Ipswich, et al. They're not all hopped to hell and back again!
And another little quibble: what true Scottish (not American Scottish) ales do you know of that are smoky? Belhaven, MacAndrew's, the Caledonian line, Skullsplitter... I don't taste any smoke there. This is an American-derived myth!
Good review, though.
Cheers,
Lew Bryson
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Sep 07 '01
7:30 pm PDT
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