Brooklyn Extra Brune

Pours a dark chestnut brown with thin off white head. Pleasant aroma of dark fruit, chocolate maltiness and candi sugar. Very smooth quaffable beer with lots of dark fruit (prune, raisin, plum, etc.) balancing out the chocolate malts, caramel and candi sugar. Very good!

Tap @ House of Brews. Pours a hazy brownish-amber with a lacy off-white head. Aroma is a unique and wonderfully-enticing array of malt, banana, dark fruit, and some caramel/clove aspects as well. The taste is caramel malt up front and then, from my perspective, goes absolutely nowhere. Brooklyn’s Belgian efforts have frustrated me endlessly because they are clearly well put-together but would be vastly better if they had a little complexity. Overall, a disappointment, and that’s a shame, because with a little refinement it could be extraordinary.

Poured a lightly hazy brown amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, light banana, some clove, light fruit, and a bit of smoke. Taste was caramel, dark fruits, some spices, banana, and a dry, alcoholic finish.

Tap: Appearance: Lovely dark copper/amber with a nice small off-white/beige head. Ample carbonation racing up the sides of the chalice. roma: When first served cold, the aroma was rather strong banana, clove and peppery spice and light fruity notes. As the glass warmed the flavor became very faint. Flavor: Burnt bananas, raisins & cloves, yeasty spicy with a light fruity flavor backed by some caramel/sweet malt. Flavor ends abruptly with a dry finish. Palate: light and almost airy mouthfeel from a relatively thin body and ample carbonation. Overall: Not a bad representation but no where near the depth of flavor and complexity of other offerings (including Local 1).

On draft at GL. Pours a light coppery color with a small beige head that quickly fades. Aroma of candied malts and cotton candy. Taste of candied malts, cotton candy and sugar. Very similar to Weyerbacher Quad.