Auburn Alehouse Old Town Brown

Brewed by Auburn Alehouse (CA)
Style: Brown Ale
Auburn, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Pours brown with thin head. Like all of the beers at this pub they are served ice cold. You need to give them a good 20 min to warm up before you can actually taste anything. Big aromas of roasted malt and toasted biscuits. Flavor is dry. Finish is clean. Pretty refreshing for a brown ale. Not bad.

On tap at the brewery. Medium brown color and very translucent. Aroma is pretty typical brown ale - some sweet malts and nuttiness. Flavor is a little more complex than the aroma lets on with some nice light roasted malt flavors as well as some coffee notes. Palate is extremely light. Overall a decent brown that would be infinitely better with a little more body - just too watery for my taste.

Soft nutty notes on the nose. A hint of roast and chocoalte. Brown/amber pour, soft head. Toasted nut flavor, hints of roast, light sweetness, chocolate. Earthy bitterness rounds out the finish.

Draught at the brewpub. Clear brown with a hint of red. The aroma is very toasty and I sincerely mean that. The only other quality i get besides toast is some fresher grain. The flavor has a good dose of toast as well, along with lighter caramel, and subtle hops. Light and crisp in the mouth. A decent session brown (does that make this a mild though?) but too toasty for me overall.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours reddish brown with a thin beige head and a malty aroma. There is a smoked malt flavor that is a bit thin, nevertheless pretty tasty, as well as some subtle hop bitterness.

A brown ale with a thin dark off white head. A nice nutty malt aroma with light British hops, nutella sweetness. In mouth, roasted nutty malts, bitter chocolate herbs, dry British hops, medium bodied. On tap at brewpub, 27 August 2009.

Date: July 05, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear dark red, fine beige head, bits of lace
Aroma: nutty chocolate aroma, light earthyness
Flavor: sweet caramel and chocolate flavor, nice nutty character, light bitterness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Attractive dark brown, moderate, retentive head. Roasted coffee aroma with light toffee. Roasty coffee flavor, a little dry, a little rough maltiness. Light acidity from roast malt, appropriate bitterness. Nicely done easy drinker.

Draft pint at the brewpub. This comes across the bar with the appearance of a murky, river-bottom muddiness. But it drink with delicate balance that goes well with the awesome brick surroundings. The aroma and flavors are both earthy, with a light roastiness that is exceptionally drinkable. In the finish, there’s a earthy, gritty, fuzzy aspect that almost comes across like mellow raspberries. I’d like to see Brian do a raspberry version of it. Outstanding beer, and one that is exceptionally sessionable at 3.8%! (#3384, 4/7/2008)

Draft. Mahogony beer with a cream colored head. Light roast aroma. Nutty, caramel, light roast flavor. Medium bodied. Lingering nutty roast.

Crystal clear reddish brown, creamy off-white head. Malty, mild but hard aroma. Creamy, smooth, light maltiness.