Brooklyn Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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.

Bottle of Pennant ’55 poured into a pint glass. Translucent amber with a large, large head that sticks around. Aroma is quite hoppy, but more sour hoppy than bitter hoppy. The flavor has notes of wheat bread and sour hops. Not bad, but lacking a good hoppy bite. Not a winter beer at all. I could see it being extremely refreshing on a 90 degree day though.

Pours a fairly dark amber color with a nice frothy white head, which lasts for a rather long time. Pretty bitchin’ aroma... hops. Bready, slightly metallic, some happy hoppy tastes in there too. Not really bitter. Some grassy taste in there too. A pretty good session.

This beer pours out a cloudy amber color with a thick head and some minor laceing along the sides of the pint glass in which i pouredit into. The aroma is hoppy with some hints of bready malt. It has a nice crisp initial flavor with bitter hops some hints of malt. the finish is very bland and some what watery, there is also not much of a palate let along a palate duration.

Bottle. Nose is subdued hops. Clear golden amber with a thin white head leaving good lacing. Nice mellow bitterness. Palate is slightly sharp but with a nice thickness.