2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle. Pours an opaque deep chestnut, with a large off-white head, which lasts well and leaves good lacing. Dark chocolate, brown bread and very light hops make up the aroma. Floral and spice hops up front lead into a blend of milk chocolate and latte. Bitter roasted malt comes in at the finish. This is a reasonable, if not wondrous brown ale. I’m not sure my bottle was all that fresh, but nevertheless it was not all that impressive.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours very dark, looks more dark ruby than brown when held to the light beautiful creamy beige 1 finger head that soon settles a bit. First aroma when I knocked the top off the bottle was something dark and roasted or toasted, but first sniff at the glass was a beautiful soft pillow of sweet maltiness. 2nd sniff some floral hops poke through. 3rd sniff back to the dark roasty toasty. The taste and mouthfeel are quite a bit lighter than I was expecting. It doesn’t have the edible malt thickness of Tall Poppy or the hop extroversion of Hopwired. Somehow the (very nice) toasty flavours leave me craving for something a tad plumper in the body. It’s a very nice beer, not outstanding and may be better drunk with a meal to get the most out of it.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cloudy, murky brown color with sediment... Light brown colored head and a sweet, malty, deliciously earthy nose. It’s light in the mouth, slightly disappointing, and yet a little different from what you’d expect from a brown ale... In a good way. This is a little too carbonated, though, and I think it negatively affects the flavor. Eh.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Deep mahogany pour with a fluffy eggshell head. Loads of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, burnt caramel, brown sugar, and a hoppy bitterness that adds to the beer’s complexity. Not traditionally a fan of the style but this one is rich and interesting. Another tasty beer from 8 Wired!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle (ALEhouse, Riga, MelnaZiema2013)
Brown, small head. . Fairly typical brown ale aroma. Stodgy taste, a bit yeasty. Nice bitter bite in finish, but a little metallic too. Unsatisfying.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Brun i färgen, offwhite skum. Doftar rostad malt, rågbröd, gräs humle. Smakar rostad malt söta nötiga toner, rågbröd, gräs och humle.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: FEB 18, 2013 8/II/13 - 50cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: n/a (2013-146)
Clear red brown beer, big creamy rocky off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive. Aroma: quite some exotic fruits, pineapple, some caramel, bit sugary, chocolate.MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, exotic fruits, passion fruit, some pineapple, bit piny. Aftrtaste: pretty bitter, some caramel, fruity, dry, nicely hopped with American hops, bitter ending, more citrus. Really good stuff!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
sampled @Melna Ziema, ALEhouse, Riga, Latvia, 26th January 2013.
Aroma - sweetish, floral hops. Pours copper reddish with huge white-off top, good big spotty lacing. Taste - far away sweet, lively fresh hopped bitter bite. Good hop dry finish. Medium body, watery palate. IPA like ale with very refreshing, live hopped palette. My first example which is really like soap on nose to me - although I have heard many times about DIPAs the same and have consistently defended that those ales are not soapy - they are just best ales in the whole...
So I didn’t found brown ale in this sample.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Hazy redish color. Very nice tan creamy head, stays. Good lacing. Sweet, fruity, hops, yeast in aroma. Yeasty, malty, slight nuttyness, caramel in flavor. Creamy mouthfeel.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: MAR 20, 2013 Dark amber with huge beige head. Lacing nicely.
Aroma.. floral sweet nose, grassy hops, hint of honey, decent malty.
Bit sweet, with medium bitter dry finish.
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