Anchor Brekle’s Brown

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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The shop formerly known as Varsity: Pours a nice brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is mostly just toffee malts, sugar, and a hint of hops. I didn’t gather that they were citra from the taste, but they did provide a good element of bitterness throughout. Mostly just a malty session ale, but still pretty good. Maybe too much of something, because I didn’t find it to be perfectly balanced.

pours a dark, clear, caramel colored brown with small, diminishing grey head. Aroma of caramel, soft molasses, brown sugar, roasted hazelnut. Medium bodied, smooth, with a nutty finish. Flavor of caramel with a soft, spicy hop presence, some nuts, ever so lightly bittered. Great session brown.

A clear brown body with a off white head that had good retention, but no lacing. Aroma had a nice floral hop profile and nice toasted malts. There was a subtle note almost like talcum powder. It wasn’t off setting or bad, it was actually interesting. Flavor was well balanced. Roasted malts dominated the initial flavor which gave way to a nice floral hop presence in the finish. Kind of light, carbonation was mild.

This was a very good brown ale. Pours a rich-enough brown, moderate carbonation. Very interesting flavor, with a maltiness, to be sure, but some fruitiness that slides into an orange (the "Citra" perhaps suggesting it to me) in the later finish. Subtle and complex, and about all I would want from a brown ale, without making it into a porter. Bottle.

Dark brown pour with a nice creamy lacing. Nice sweet and bready malt aroma. Maybe some chocolate or toffee in there as well. Sweet and nutty taste with a bitter finish. Crisp and smooth feel. Pretty nice light brown ale.

Hazy brown color with some head. Aromas of caramel and sweet fruits. Taste almost the same, but with a hoppy aftertaste. Very balanced body. Nice beer

Draught at Bishops Arms, Vasagatan. Dark amber beer with a beige head. Malty toffee aroma, fruitu, hop notes. Malty chocolate flavor, cocoa, some figs, vinous notes. Chocolate finish with toffee and some hops.

Pours a nice copper brown from the bottle with a thick tan head and good lacing. Aroma is sweet and roasted malts, with a bit of alcohol. Taste is the sweet caramel and nut malts with a slightly hoppy finish. Well balanced and clean; nice american brown ale, similar to a dutch.

From 0.355l bottle @ Ølfestival København 2012 . Pours a light cloudy nutty-brown body with a small sidesticking beige head that’s quickly fading. The aroma has some butterscotch and sweetness from malts with a hint of both dark fruits and chocolate paper. It’s average carbonated and it has a oily to sticky sticky texture in the mouth. The flavor has lots of caramel - almost burned caramel actually - with nuts and some branches. There is also a light mild metallic tone in the background that’s a bit confusing for the old buds. Still, II fond this to be a tasty brown ale. 10.05.2012

Hazy redish amber brown with a nice beige head and sticky lace. Strong caramel malt aroma with hints of figs, raisins and nuts. Malt sweetness up front, with chocolate and ripe fruit in the middle, and a slight hops kick in the back. Medium body, minimal carbonation, slightly sticky on the palate, and a pleasant finish that features the caramel malt sweetness.

Bottle from Alexander Wines, Coventry. Dark ruby pour with a tidy yellow-beige head. Enticing, sweet, milk chocolate coated vanilla and fig aroma identical to that untraceable sake I’ve got in the fridge. Slick and malty with a satisfying, layered sweetness hinting at Allsorts, muscovado, black cherry and fig. Maybe a trace of floral hop- after you’ve been on the extreme chilli houmous, at least. Proper brown ale, no doubt.