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Brooklyn Brown Ale

Brooklyn Brown Ale - Brown Ale

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 Percentile 
83
overall
Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Brown Ale

Brooklyn, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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9763.43/5.03.42/5.05.6%91Dimpled mug
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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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mike67 (73), , New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/516/20
Jul 19, 2009  
12 oz bottle. Pours mahogany with long lasting off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts, bread and brown sugar. Light to medium body. Flavor of earthy hops that are balanced by sweet fruity malt. Some coffee and citrusy notes are in the background. Finish is long well balanced and pleasant. One of my favorite browns.


 fluffy (229), Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/514/20
Jul 18, 2009  
bottle at Crowbar in Ybor City in Tampa. aroma is nutty and citrusy. flavor is somewhat dark chocolate bittery with roasted nuts, and for some reason a little bit of bitter citrus rind on the palette. pretty good, but there are better browns out there.


 noncaloric (601), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 15, 2009  
Big thanks to JoeMcPhee. Dark mahogany-brown pour, moderate beige head. Aroma of fruity malts, leaning towards cherries. Flavor somewhere between brown ale and porter, decided chocolate malt presence, just a little bit nutty, something of a sour cherry presence. Hops are there, aromatic, bitter, but secondary to the malts, decided orange zest bite. A bit of cinnamon spiciness throughout. Nicely harmonized in all its parts.


BellsFan (47), Michigan, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 14, 2009  
Not a huge fan of brown ales, but this one was pretty good. Very smooth. Dark tan pour with a hazel colored head.


 pete4999 (121), Buffalo, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/512/20
Jul 11, 2009  
Pours dark brown, light tan head. Light shines through, color appears a nice mahogany under the light. Bubbles rise to the top quickly. Nothing to complain about. As for the smell - take this as a compliment or a detraction (your call), but it smells a lot like Newcastle Brown Ale. It smells good, but not terribly complex. Definite nut tones. The beer goes down smooth and sweet. Not much hop bitterness...but then again, you wouldn’t really expect that. It’s just a nutty, sweet flavor. I could drink a ton of these. Mouthfeel is a bit fizzy...meh. Overall....Is this a beer to write home about? No. Is this a good, reasonably-priced, readily-available (around here at least) session beer? Hell yes. It’s a great session beer, and something that my swill-drinking friends would enjoy too.


 hellbilly (1492), scottsdale über alles, Arizona, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/514/20
Jul 7, 2009  
this pours an actual mahogany brown color just like the bottle stated it would! it also has a light brown/tan head but the stupid bottle couldn’t predict that!... it smells of coffee, caramel creams, nuts, malt, pine-like hops and something weird...slightly tart. the flavor is a bit one dimensional or at least it doesn’t change... buttery caramel creams, milk chocolate, toasted brown sugar covered nuts and a coffee aftertaste. it is thin to medium-light bodied, prickly and sharp. 6/4/6/3/14/3.3


 tomer (365), Rishon Le Zion, Israel
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/512/20
Jul 4, 2009  
.355L bottle, small light quickly diminishing head, clear brown colour with deep red taints, aroma of american hopps with notes of light roasted coffee and some malt.quite dry with the same hoppy traits continuing and a touch of caramel, The finish is also hop dominated and medium long. Too much hops to my liking.


 beerchugger (285), Colorado, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/513/20
Jun 29, 2009  
Pours deep brown with thin off-white head. The aroma was fairly weak with not much coming through. The flavor was mostly watery, fairly bland, let alone a lack of character. Finish is lightly bitter.



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