3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Light unclear medium to dark amber color with a small to average, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, raisin, wood, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange, overripped fruit, moderate alcohol. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. Flavor and aroma is very sweet. [20090807]
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Amber colour, not too much head. Aroma is wooden, earthy, mild sourish fruity notes as well as some nuttyness. Flavour is caramel, wood, some maplesyrup, mild spices as well as some slight alcoholic sweet notes.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
(22oz bottle, courtesy of Exiled) Pours a clear amber body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel, herbs, and cardboard. Flavor of cardboard, caramel, raisins, and light cocoa.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF.
Dark nut brown color, small white head. Aroma has toffee, nuts, grassy-wwoody hops. Grassy hops, quite nutty, but also some vegetably notes. Lingering alcohol in the aftertaste.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(draft) Cloudy amber body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, candi sugar. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, raisin, some candi sugar, light alcohol. Light-medium body.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
22oz bottle-pours a big foamy light tan head and copper color. Aroma is sweet light/medium malt-cocoa, dusty, medium fruit. Taste is sweet light/medium malt-cocoa, dusty/husky, medium fruit, earthy hops with some bite.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazy amber with a small hite head. Fruity aroma with marmalade, lemon and peach. Sweet fruity flavour with a little alcohol showing. Decent bitter finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
22oz bottle acquired in trade with ppoitras (thanks!). This happens to be my 100th Brown Ale rating. Poured light brown, almost a deeper orange color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, chocolate and nuts. Tastes of caramel, chocoalte, nuts and had a sugary sweetness as well.. Thinner body. Although this had the typical Brown Ale profile, I found the tastes and aromas didn’t really mesh together well. It was as if they were each fighting each other and and definitely did not blend.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22oz bottle. Pours brown with a small tan head. Smells fruity with some raisin and nut notes. Taste is on the sweeter and of the malt scale with caramel and brown sugar overwhelming the senses. Slightly nutty finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Got this one up in Manchester Ct, on a reccomendation from DYCsoccer. 22 0z bomber, bottle conditioned. Pours a murky plain brown with a thick off white head and leaves some lace. Aroma is light brown sugar, toffeee, light roasted nuts, caramel malts and a hint of DMS. Sweet body, ligth astringency lightly hopped, nutty and light chocolate malts and wierd hint of herbal/mint bubblegum somehow. Not too complex, but has a decent flavor and doesnt really seem like it is 7%. Seems more like a german alt to me than a brown ale.
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