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Brooklyn Ale

Brooklyn Ale  - English Pale Ale

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 Percentile 
55
overall
Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: English Pale Ale

Brooklyn, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6213.09/5.03.09/5.05.1%73.6English pint, Shaker
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Commercial Description:
Formerly known as Pennant Ale '55...Brooklyn Pennant Pale Ale '55 is a classic English pale ale, brewed with the prized Maris Otter Malt and Fuggles, Willamette and Cascade hops. Maris Otter is an old malt variety that yields an incomparable biscuity flavor. Pennant is chesnut-colored, medium in body with a hearty malt palate and smooth hop finish. This beer is a tribute to Brooklyn’s world champion baseball team.
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 pet3rman (206), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 28, 2007  
Bottle: Brooklyn Pennant Ale 55’- pours copper with a nice frothy cream head. Some lacing. Aroma faint. Taste has some bitterness covered by some malt. Bitter finish. Good Pale Ale.


 RblWthACoz (963), Brooklyn, New York, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 22, 2007  
Pours a clear amber with almost no head. Nose is a little nutty. A little sugary sweet. Flavor is slightly meaty. Medium body. Long staying power of hops in the mouth, though mild. Feel is thin with bubble. Very drinkable, yes. A stable pale ale, but nothing really that fantastic. Might work good as a session beer. But still, there are greater out there.


 SledgeJr (2957), Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Sep 20, 2007  
In the bottle from Inari Wines. My bottle was packaged as "Brooklyn Pennant Ale 55." This was surprisingly good. A traditional and substantial everyday ale. I’d like to think that this was the type of beer made on good days in the old days. That is, on those rare occasions when the beer was not flawed, I bet it tasted something like this. Yeasty and doughy in its aroma, it’s not heavy, but it has a malty flavor. This is the most lager-tasting ale that I’ve ever had. I’d say it was a stand-up double.


 BeerPrince (1701), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 20, 2007  
Copper with decent head. Citrus hops and lots of bready malts on the nose. Nice bready malts with a floral hop presence. Well balanced ale.


 tjthresh (1746), Greenfield, Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Sep 19, 2007  
12 ounce bottle from SS Summer 07
Pours a hazy copper with a fine white head.
The initial aroma is of toast and biscuit malts. Not really much hop are yeast character at all.
A little bit of buttered biscuit flavor, balanced with pedestrian hop flavor. Just enough bitterness to notice.
Medium body. Semi-sweet finish.
Just sort of okay.


 theviolet (168), New York, New York, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Sep 18, 2007  
Very strong aroma of deep malt and strong hops. Clear deep orange gold in appearance, thin white fizzy head. Taste is very sweet and malty. Lots of hops in the finish. Nothing else too distinguishable in the flavor. Full mouthfeel is nice, lots of carbonation however. Could use a little less. Not a bad beer, good for the style.


 footy (334), scottsdale, Arizona, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/516/20
Sep 15, 2007  
3/13/05 12 oz. Manhattan. Amber with small tan head. Sweet malty aroma. Biscuity malt taste with some light hops. Not bad.


 emobassfoo (178), Webster, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/512/20
Sep 15, 2007  
Rated while drinking: Pours a deep-hued amber with a big fluffy white head that’s slowly settling down. A pretty rich aroma of heavy malts and some hops. Biscuity and ’chewy’ smelling. Flavor starts off distant and rides up into a solid balance of malts and hops. Per the description, these Maris Otter malts make it quite biscuity (flavor and aroma). Quite watery on the palate, a bit dry at the end, but very drinkable. Looks like Brooklyn’s most accessible beer, but for an EPA, this is kind of lacking. The body isn’t what I expected, and the flavor isn’t as complex or ’strong’ as I expect some EPAs to be, but it made for a nice first beer of the day.



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