Brooklyn Ale

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: English Pale Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

Pours a clear, medium-dark copper color. A small, fizzy, off-white head settles to a wispy film, leaving virtually no lacing behind. The aroma is dry and toasty, with mostly cereal grains and bitter, grassy hops showing. As it warms, a touch of honey sweetness emerges as a much welcomed balancing element. The flavor is bitter, with dried grassy notes showing sharply over toasted caramel and cereal grains. A medium body is somewhat harsh, with a gool deal of astringency coming through. I did not enjoy this one very much.

Bought the Brooklyn variety pack. I believe this beer has the best roasted malty flavor of the bunch. Somewhat like the Brooklyn Lager in that both are standard, middle-of-the-road for said style. Overall not a bad choice when shopping at the big-box supermarket.

12 ounce bottle in pint glass. Amber orange with orange-white head and lotsa lace. Malty orangy bready aroma. Caramel orange flavor with very mild tabacco bitterness. Medium body and carbo. Eh. I don’t expect it will win the pennant of beer.

Smells of nice lightly roasted malts and fresh floral hops. Pours a nice light clear copper with a nice pillowy white head. Taste is just like it smells, a perfect balance of roasted malts and fresh sour/bitter hops. Reminds me of their brooklyn lager, but an ale.

Pours an amber in the SNPA mold with a fleeting white head, shrinking to the suggestion of a film. The nose is very fruity, more so than hoppy or malty. A hint of DMS? It’s hard not for that to be in there though, with little to cover it up. Some toast. Perhaps better than average body with some decent creaminess and small even bubbles. Fruity, like in the nose, and creamy to boot. This is a bit on the toasty side, but the real flaw is a sizeable dose of both DMS and diacetyl. The diacetyl is a bit nice in terms of the buttery texture, but the flavor is off. The DMS just doesn’t really belong. A long lingering fruity finish. Eh, perhaps not bad for the style, but I won’t be buying one of these in the future.

Pours clear amber, thin head. Smell is mix of both light malt and hops. Taste is sweet with hoppy aftertaste. mouthfeel is slightly crisp. ok beer.

Small malted nose, almost nothing there. Amber orange with small white head. Some carbonation. This brew has a long dry ending. Appears that this is the only thing of note. Does impart a slight bitter warming on the palate.

Bottle. Poured a clear amber color with a thin white head. Mostly a biscuity malt aroma with a hint of hops in the back. Lightly carbonated. Taste of mostly toasty malts with a very light earthy hop finish. A very subdued pale - I had assumed it was an amber. Too lw-key for my tastes.