Brooklyn Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

AAmber pour with a thin tan head that quicly went away. Malty aroma. Some sweetness, nice malt taste, dry finish. Real sporatic thin lacing.

Beer appears to me bright honey brown little thin cap with less then average retention and zero lacing, not much of a beer to look at. Mild aroma with a descant amount of hops but the hops are not over bearing, some very sweet scented malts and a cameral note is defantly noticeable, smells good but to mild for my liking. Mouth feels seems dry but not to thin with descant amount of carbonation. Taste was also light, its strange I can detect bitterness, maybe some mellon?!?!??! But there doesn’t seem to be any taste to it, but there’s flavor at the same time what the hell? Good brew, very drinkable and enjoyable but every thing about it seems too mild probably could have been slightly more aggressive.

On tap at Brooklyn Brewery as Pennant Ale ’55 (perhaps formerly known as Pennant Pale Ale now?). Rich amber color. Overall, a rich, malty flavor. It went down rather easy. Nothing particularly extraordinary but enjoyable nonetheless.

Tap said Pennant Ale ’55 Pours amber color white head sweet taste hardly any hop in the taste..... definitely have had better from brooklyn but it wasn’t bad just not much hop

Draft at JFK airport - purchased as Pennant Ale ’55 - Pours a darkish amber in color with a medium white head that hung around, but no lacing. Aroma was fairly malty and slightly sweet with little evidence of any hops. Flavor was also quite malty with none of the sweetness that the aroma foretold. Nutty malts dominate. Hops only evident in the finish, which is slightly bitter and clean. OK... not great... needs more hops to fulfill its supposed pale ale heritage.

12 oz bottle... dark yellow color... no head... overly malty and just a hint of hops... i could drink a bunch of these, but it doesn’t really stand out...

(Bottle) Pretty bland and generic. Too sweet for me. Fairly malty but no real complexity to the malt. Only a hint of hops. Brooklyn brews far better beers...why drink this one?

On tap at the brewery. Pours a straw color with a white head. Very grassy in aroma, almost like a ball field. Tastes mildly of citrus and caramel. High in water content for my taste. Minor league.