Brooklyn Ale

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

Brooklyn Brewery is proud of their Brooklyn heritage and hometown. Brooklyn, New York has a rich history, some good and some bad but all interesting, and the story of how Brooklyn Brewery got started is just as fascinating. As all Brooklynites should be, the fine folks at Brooklyn Brewery are huge baseball fans, and their tribute to America’s favorite past-time is the Pennant Ale. This beer celebrates the year 1955 when the Brooklyn Dodgers won the Pennant. I’m not sure if the Pennant Ale has won any awards yet, but nonetheless, it is a winner in my book.

Burnished copper, she shimmers as if frozen in time, her beauty preserved for all to enjoy. A faintly tinged copper head sits gracefully atop the glimmering beauty below, all while lace threatens to creep up and out of her glassy confines. I stir her depths a few times, releasing a wonderfully bouquet of apples, summer fruits, and butterscotch candies; Werther’s Originals come to mind. Furthering her sweet, fresh fruit bouquet are pears, peaches, cantaloupe, honeydew and kiwi. A touch of prune juice offers an earthy tart snap at the end while a continual undercurrent of butterscotch and caramel carries me away to beervana where the glass is never empty and the sky is always sunny with a gently cooling ocean breeze. As we grow ever more intimate, I surrender myself to her wet and naughty embrace. A very smooth mouthfeel coats gently with butterscotch and caramel while the top of my tongue tingles with lemon seltzer. Applesauce, cantaloupe, honeydew, pears and peaches perfectly match their aromatic presence; she is crisp, refreshing, and exciting with each thirst-quenching quaff. Crunchy bread and sweet rolls flesh out the background as the butterscotch and caramel acts as a sweet glaze for all the fruits. A sprinkling of cinnamon lingers in my breath, even as I savor the last quaff.

An amazing session beer with gobs of flavor and enough drinkability to rival two beers from another brewer. Every now and then Brooklyn Brewery will release a bombtastic beer, but truly their specialty is exquisitely produced beers gleaming with classic style and refined finesse. Well done. Now all we need is for the Brooklyn Dodgers to win a Pennant again.

bottle, thin orange brown with big foam, aromas of fruit and caramel, flavor is sour thin watery caramel, could use more body to it

The appearance is an impressive smooth layer of white head. Reddish orange, like a fox. The carbonation is a veritable Million Man March of upfloating bubbles. It’s clear but not at all thin. The aroma is a nice bready ale aroma. Like a regular pub ale. The aroma is mild and creamy. Hops are mild and more of an accent. It really smells like a thick cream ale. The taste is dry and biscuity pub ale malts. It’s a little on the non-descript side, but still good. It is in some ways like a Bass on-tap. The taste is solid, but not quite living up to the rest of it. Pleasant and expected. The feel is very thick and creamy, dry and chewy. Quite formidable. It’s a terrific "all-around" drinking experience (presentation + taste + aroma). The taste isn’t a mind-blower, but a very solid ale.

Bottle from Kegs & Barrels in Plano, TX. Pours a clear amber with beige head. Aroma of caramel, light fruit. Flavor of light fruit/citrus, light caramel, very faint bitter. Mouth feel is light-medium body with high carbonation. Overall, an easy drinking tasty beer.

This is the beer that convinced me I need to brew with Marris Otter. The hops are there, but they’re not overpowering, in fact, they seem like an afterthought. What did you expect from an English Pale? The malt profile, however, is excellent.

Had this on tap at Thinking Mans Tavern. A decent beer. Very light in terms of aroma and flavor. Not very toasty, or nutty. The beer wasn’t that creamy either. As I rate this I just think about the caramel malt look and flavor. Honestly without the caramel malt I don’t think you have much here. I am sorry to be tough on a Brooklyn beer, but this beer wasn’t that great. It didn’t have anything really going for it. Expect a slight toasty flavor, but mainly a bland caramel malt aroma and taste. The appearance is nice. A nice thin head sitting on top of a dark caramel malt body. Overall, very mediocre.

It’s a very crisp, clean English-style pale ale - a little citrusy, a little hoppy, a lot of tasty. It’s a pretty solid pale ale, but nothing to really write home about. It’s fairly light and very very drinkable, super smooth as it goes down.

PENAT ALE 55 INITIALY I LOVED THIS BEER I PURCHASED A VARIETY PACK OF BROOKLYN BEERS AND THIS WAS MY FAVORITE OUT OF THE PACK, HOWEVER NOW THAT I AM RATING IT I FIND THE EXPERIENCE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, IT POURS A REDISH GOLDEN CLEAR WITH A SLIGHT TAN HEAD. SMELLS A LITTLE SKUNKY CITRUS AND TASTES LIKE A LIGHT NUTTY ROASTED CITRUS MALT DEFINETLY GOOD NOT QUITE GREAT.