Browns IPA

Brewed by Troy Pub & Brewery (Browns Brewing)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Troy, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Pours a very nice looking hazy amber with great lingering frothy head. honestly a very pretty pour of beer. taste is all hoppy bitterness with some grapefruit and malt backbone. its dry on the finish but much better ipa then i was expecting i’d have to say.

UPDATED: MAY 17, 2012 Very odd aroma.....there may be a problem. I’ve had this in their brewpub and this bottle is not that beer. Cheesy aroma, almost no maltiness and a metallic taste. They may have a problem in bottling, or this was a very old bottle.....but I see no dating anywhere.........EDIT----after a visit to the brewpub I obtained another 6 pack of Browns IPA.....what a difference! It now deserves a rerate!.....pours a clear golden with a light head which laces the glass well....slight hopping hits with a defined malt taste, crisp and clean on the light edge of IPAs but an easily drinkable brew...... much better the second time around

Clear deep gold with a sticky white head. Citrus hop aroma, caramel. The flavor is slightly bitter, well balanced by the malts. I’d like to see a little more of both malt and hops and perhaps add some body to this to so that it can run in faster company.

On tap at brewery - clear amberish orange. Slight hops aroma. I’d expect more from an IPA. Smooth drinking. Nice malt flavor and balance. Tastes more like a pale to me. Slightly metallic.

Bottle poured a hazy orange amber with a lasting creamy amber head. Aromas of biscuit, earthiness, citrus and light pine. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a lightly dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, earthiness, citrus and a hint of pine with a smooth lightly dry moderatrly bitter finish.

This one is not good. Think of what it would taste like to pour a homeless mans change cup in your mouth. Thats the best description of the taste I can come up with. Dirty metallic, spoiled meat, caramel, grassy hops. Two sips and a drain pour.

Metal, burnt plastic. Absolutely no ipa or even beer flavors. What the fuck? This is horrid. Skunked pils malts. Fucken terrible!!

Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream colored head. Woodsy and floral aroma with citrus and caramel. Grapefruit and light pine flavor with caramel and some woodsiness. Medium bodied. OK bitterness. Grapefruit and caramel lingers with light pine and light floral notes.

12 oz. bottle. Foam oozes out of the bottle and onto the counter when the beer is opened. Pours a mostly clear antique gold with a moderate linen white head that lasted through the first third of the glass and left partial lace. The aroma is dusty malt and weak citrus. The flavor is malt, slightly sweet, followed by some mild-moderate hops bitterness that is weakly flavored with citrus. A bit spitzy on the palate. Timid for an IPA; not a bad beer, just restrained.

A - Served a bright and slightly haze copper-orange color with a finger of frothy white head. The head reduced down to a spotty layer and a ring and left behind some nice lacing on the glass. S - Aroma has some nice pine hop aroma and a touch of caramel malts in the background. Touch of citrus hop also in the background. T - Starts off with some nice pine hop flavor and some caramel malt backbone. Touch of citrus hops also mixed in. Through the middle there is a bit more hop coming through. The finish has a blend of hops with some nice bitterness and a touch of sweet malt that lingers nicely. M - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. There is nice dry finish at the end with the bitterness. Pretty crisp and refreshing. D - Very drinkable. Decent hop profile, but it could use a bit more of a punch for an IPA. Otherwise fairly well balanced, it a little tones down.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber brown with a tan head that dissipates slowly and laces beautifully and thickly. Aroma has some light fruits with a strong bread backbone and a good amount of grains as well. Flavor is full of bread as well with a slight light citrus note and a hint of pine.