Brooklyn Brown Ale

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

Aroma is not typical. It’s smooth roasted caramel with grassy or floral hop. Very dark garnet color with a smeary white film for head. Full bodied with mild and creamy carbonation. Flavor is roasted caramel with floral sort of hop. It’s a bit darkly bready, but not overly sweet. Sort of an overachieving Newcastle Brown. Character it’s got. The finish is much as the beginning. This ale is arguably in a class by itself.

Bottle at The Rake, Borough Market. Ruby with lasting beige head. Lovely aroma of berry fruit and US hops. Bready. Quite bland in mouth, but finish is good. Hops on either end. Has a fair dry malt flavour in mouth which sometimes is a little bready.

A decent taste with a quick head that let way fairly quickly. A good balance of malt with the hops and a decent drinkability.

Had this on tap at MacNivens. Let down with the bar, let down with the brew. Thin, brown, watery. Not a terrible taste, just nothing outstanding. Could have had a bottle of this for much cheaper. Tastes about like Newcastle, Deep Cover, etc. Do yourself a favor and just get Rogue’s Hazelnut Necter if you want a good brown ale, this is just plain and boring.

Very smooth with a pretty good mix of malts and hops in both the flavor and aroma, pours a dark brown (no real surprise).

Keg (Black Door, Helsinki)
Dark brown, healthy head. Hoppy sharp aroma. A bit fizzy. Full malty slightly burnt taste. Decent brown bitter slightly sticky finish.

Bottle: Deep red/brown clear colour, with a nice head. Aroma was coffee,dark chocolate,caramel, som metalic nose is there to,and a nice citric ending. Flavor is coffee,dark choclate,som alcoholic mouth feeling.Light to medium body, and a medium finish. Nice brown ale! a bit higher alc, and it would get a higher score.

No head this time. very dark. aroma is sweet and of roasted malt, nuts, plumb and molasses. A little thin for so much flavor.