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Brooklyn Brown Ale

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83
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9783.43/5.03.42/5.05.6%91.1Dimpled mug
Commercial Description:
Brooklyn Brown Ale, made exclusively with American ingredients, won Bronze medals at the Great American Beer Festival in the Strong Ale Category in 1991 and in the American Brown Ale Category in 1992. Brooklyn Brown uses pale, crystal, chocolate, and black malts to attain a complex creamy texture. It is more heavily hopped than its British forbears.
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 TampaBrew (805), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 24, 2007  
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.


 Blom (390), Odense, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/103/513/20
Oct 24, 2007  
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.


 pnista (1008), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/513/20
Oct 22, 2007  
Pours a less than completely clear ruddy brown with a film of a tan head. The nose is sweet with malt, though not over bearing. Substantial chocolate and a bit creamy. A bit of floral hops, but also something slightly caustic smelling. A fruity slightly out of place roastiness. Cherry? Oak? A full creamy body, particularly for a session style, very substantial. Fruity round malty beer. A bit of roasty astringency seems to suggest oak and cherry. Not so much chocolate, but maybe a small hint of coffee with that roast. Relatively smooth, with the astringency a bit over the top. Reigned in, this could be a nice way to bring balance to a beer on the malty side. Lingering roast leaves me a bit confused, but not a bad beer by any account.


 IrishBoy (2705), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 20, 2007  
12 ox bottle from Quake1028; nose of sweet caramel with some light banana; clear dark cherry brown with a medium, lightly lacing, beige head; flavor has an immediate coffee hit, then more caramel and sweetness fading to light hop bitterness.


gardyloo (12), USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Oct 19, 2007    Updated: Oct 20, 2007
a brown ale for ipa fans. it’s hoppier than your run of the mill brown ale, and really drinkable, especially on tap. its a fairly different animal on tap - i get the feeling its a little maltier when bottled, could be me though. i’ve actually come across this beer in bars more often in D.C. than in new york.


 tarjei (1745), Bryne, Norway
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 15, 2007  
35,5 cl bottle. Brown/reddish color. Small beige head. Sweet, caramell malt, fruit, hops.


 redlight (1458), Winter Park, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/514/20
Oct 9, 2007  
Caramel and malt aroma, slightly nutty, but pretty much sweet aroma. Nut brown color with a thin white head that disipates. Smooth caramel malts, with good spicy hops, very well balanced, although pretty its slightly hoppy for the style.


 yespr (12018), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 8, 2007  
35.5 cL bottle. Pours deep brown with a hazzlenut brown hue, creamy off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma with a mild roasted malt beneath. Light to medium bodied which is in contrast to the quite flavourful experience that follows. Starts dark roasted with a clear acidity before a more breadish malt note turns up. It does however never get to the point that the flavour shows the sweetness that seems present in the aroma, it rather stays acidic for then to turn into a more bitter and hoppy finish showing some flavour smoothness along the way: caramel, chocolate and a whiff of vanilla. Has a slight liqourice edge in the finish. Clearly the most hoppy brown ale I’ve had. Nice.



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