McEwan's Export
Available filtered and pasteurised in keg, can & bottle.
"Renowned throughout the world as the original Scottish Export beer. A premium beer with a delicate sweet caramel flavour and roasted malt aroma."
Note: Originally brewed by McEwan’s at the Fountain brewery in Edinburgh. Production moved from Fountain to the Caledonian Brewery in 2004. The McEwan’s brand passed to Heineken in 2008 after their purchase of Scottish & Newcastle’s British operations. Heineken sold the brand to Wells & Youngs in 2011. Packaged (bottle & can) McEwan’s beers are produced at Wells & Youngs brewery in Bedford.
"Renowned throughout the world as the original Scottish Export beer. A premium beer with a delicate sweet caramel flavour and roasted malt aroma."
Note: Originally brewed by McEwan’s at the Fountain brewery in Edinburgh. Production moved from Fountain to the Caledonian Brewery in 2004. The McEwan’s brand passed to Heineken in 2008 after their purchase of Scottish & Newcastle’s British operations. Heineken sold the brand to Wells & Youngs in 2011. Packaged (bottle & can) McEwan’s beers are produced at Wells & Youngs brewery in Bedford.
2.6
283 reviews
Bedford, England
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Bottle from Tesco, Leicester. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are sweet caramel, malt, little grain, notes of hops and has a sweet caramel finish.
Bottle from Tesco, Leicester. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 070220
Clear brown/orange color with small white head. Malt and caramel aroma, but quite weak and watery taste.
500 ml
Lose..jakoooo vodenasto.. aroma slaba, malcice se nazire karamela.. boja (bakrena) i pjena su oke, ali.. ali okus je cista voda..
Thin beige head stayed on a clear reddish brown still body.
Caramel, syrup, sugar & spice aroma.
Medium bodied, soft on the palate with clean back.
Malt, caramel & sweet berry tastes with a tangy finish.
Drinkable
Dark mahogany coloured, medium large head, toffee, ripe fruits, medium-bodied, bittery
Can from Victa Velebitska, shared with heavy. Clear bronze-amber body with a white head. Dusty, flowery aroma, raisins, sweetish. Okay. Taste... sweet, malty, cardboard and some graininess maybe. Just so damn sub-par... Not worth exporting, even less worth importing.
A very nice beer, 4.5 vol very refreshing, fruity, nice colour to it ( light brown) I'm surprised with this one as i only paid £3.50 for 4 500ml cans from Tescos. BARGAIN
500ml can from Stonemanor, The British Store near Brussels.
F: huge, tan, long lasting.
C: coppery, totally clear.
A: malty, bit bready, bit cardboard, caramel.
T: light malty, bready, caramel, bit toast, bit metallic edges, light to medium body, medium carbonation, drinkable for the style.
500ml bottle. Clear copper colour with a thin off white head. Aroma is light caramel, flavour is toffee, a little spice and a metallic aftertaste. Nothing special
Can. Clear amber-brown color with white head. Aroma is toffee, a touch cardboard, nutty. Taste is nutty, grainy, cereal. A bit watery mouthfeel with low carbonation. Actually quite drinkable, just a bit thin.
Bottled 0,50L. Dark and limpid brown color, light bubbly aspect with beige head of medium duration. Toffee and caramel aroma with light roasty and cortex notes. Watery texture, medium bitter mouth eith pleasant and sweet dark malt, wood, caramel and toffee final.
Can from a four pack - looked to be the best option in the supermarket fridge. Copper coin/caramel aroma, poured the same as they all do because consistency is surely the point of this beer? Weird watered down bitter/watered down industrial bock flavour, I thought it was fine though and maybe suffers from not really falling into any category. Treat it like something to chug cold while watching the football and it's passable. Hopefully Marstons do a better job of looking after this than other recent owners have, because I wonder if this kind of thing is a bit of an endangered species.
At the chilled temperature I had this you could probably close your eyes and convince yourself it's a slightly weird sparkling water with some caramel or something in it. As these things go it is mercifully inoffensive but there's naff all to it.
Tried in the Keys pub. St. Andrews. Amber colour with a thin head. Malty and light caramel aroma and taste. Thin light body.
500ml can. Pours lively with a dark amber appearance and thick dissipating white head that reduces but hangs in there throughout helped by the high level of carbonation. Lacing is also noticeable on the side of the glass. The taste is quite mild overall, with notes of smoke, caramel and nut coming through the most. In line with the style the hop presence is there but blends in with all the other flavours so does not stand out therefore increaing the possibility of high drinkability over a session. The mouthfeel is medium to heavy and leaves a slightly dry after taste. Overall, this is a tasty brew, not outstanding, but if you enjoy the style it is certainly worth a try.
Drank over the first week of the World Cup Russia 2018 Tastings @home. Toffee and blandness, why is this even brewed?
Pours red to brown with a beige head, aroma of fruits, bread, toffee, alcohol, flavor of bread, dough, malt, cookish, medium bodied
Bottle 500 ml. Polished bronze color, slightly yellowish foam. Aroma: malt, nut, caramel, halva. Taste: sweet maltiness, caramel, slightly watery, "earthy" hop bitterness.
4 pack 500ml Cans. In a Guinness pint glass. I think of Scottish football fans swilling cans of this in 80s after (another) team failure ...but those drunken jocks are happy to piss up win or inevitable lose. I like the pirate dude on the can. It drinks ok. Caramel malt and a bittta cardboard. If you're pissing in the street and singing boisterous songs about tits and haggis...this stuff will be fine.
Can - Worst beer i have ever had in my life. Bought 4 cans and drank one and poured the other 3 down the sink. Foul taste of metal and no real beer flavour. Very dissapointed.
500ml can. Pours chestnut with a frothy white head. Nose is sweet malty, toffee, cinnamon and nutty. Light and smooth in the mouth. Taste is biscuit malt, toffee, butterscotch, light spicy cinnamon and nutty. Finish is a touch metallic, like copper coins with a hint of lemon. Overall surprised by this as it's actually rather drinkable. It is kind of bland though like most best bitters, but still a fairly decent beer for the price of £1 a can.
Can on a train. A decent, canned bitter / Scottish ale with a bit of caramel and a tiny bit of cocoa at the end. It's still pretty bland, but at least it has a bit of flavor.
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Táp @ Crown bár, Aberdeen. Pattogós, túlhűtött, de az én túlfűtött hevem nem tud ellenállni.
Myself and my dad drink mcewans export a fair amount. Overall the taste is pretty distinct and has a mediocre smell.
From old tasting notes. Orange amber liquid that supports a rocky tan head. Tart, toffeeish malt aroma. Light dry, butterscotch malt flavor. Some hop bitterness in finish. Chewy malt aftertaste.
Can. The beer that helped launch a consumer revolution (CAMRA). In their heyday, McEwans produced some great beer (80/- was one) but this wasn’t one of them. Caramel appearance and a slightly malty caramel aroma. For 4.5%, there isn’t as much taste as there should be - a moderate sweetness but no real depth to it. One for nostalgia.
Botella 0,5L. Color Ambar oscuro, espuma blanca, muy fina, alta, larga duracion. Muy presentable. Aroma malta, caramelo.Sabor malta,cereales, con dulzor suave y notas de amargor que se queda en la boca.Un poco acuosa. Muy bebible y fresca.
Nice looking dark red color, clear, ultrafine white head. Aroma of light biscuit malt, grass, some plum, a coppery/metallic edge. Taste is rather flat.
Light body, soft to average carbonation, watery texture, clean finish. Not much going on, but really quaffable.