Brooklyn Brown Ale

12 oz bottle. Clear brown with a thin off white head. Very malty aroma. Malty flavor with a bit of nuttiness.

Sweet with lots of malt and caramell and with moderate bitterness. Pours brown with brownish head. Fine with me.

Sweet and soapy hops with dark malts in the aroma. Dark amber color with a small whitish head. Caramel and apples in the taste. Light bitterness.

pours brown with a thick tan head....aroma of malts and yeast...nice light nutty flavor with some hops, some light coffee and roasted malts....nice brown ale

$8.69 for a six pack at Winn Dixie grocery. Its an unusual thing to find a quality brewer in a grocery like this. Of course they only had the lager and the brown ale, typical for North Florida. Chances of a decent microbrew stout turning up in a big box grocer around here are slim to none. Brooklyn has 38 brews listed and only 5 rate below a 3.0 (4 of those are retired!), none below 2.8, that’s a pretty good record for consistent quality. Brown ales don’t usually garner much favor with me, but this one is a decent offering. Its more hoppy than most, on the order of a Sierra Nevada. Good notes of chocolate are present, creamy and nutty, and plenty of hops.

12 ounce bottle purchased at Case & keg Beer world in Boca Raton, FL for about $2.25

Nice brown color with medium head. Very hoppy for a brown ale. Better on tap than in the bottle. In the bottle it seems a little too fruity. Creamy body with slight bitter finish. A good brown ale.

Dark brown with a low head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts and cherry. Creamy with high carbonation and some acidity. Nicely hopped and fruity with clear notes of cherry and coffee.