Buckerfields Appleton Brown Ale

Brewed by Swans Hotel (Buckerfield Brewery)
Style: Brown Ale
Victoria, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Hazy dark brown colour. Straightforward malty/hazelnutty aroma. Strange body - both full and thin, like you’d find in a nitro beer, but this was a firkin. I guess both have low carbo. No worries though, I’ll be at the brewery next month. The flavour is mainly about carastany malts and a light nuttiness. Doesn’t appear anything wrong with the beer, but a standard brown ale is just so uninspiring for me.

On tap at pub, brown pour with little white head. Aroma is toffee, cereal, chicory. Taste aligns, but is really subued. Add a little licorice flavour. Kinda watery.

650ml bottle pours brown in color with a moderate white head and a few spots of lacing. Aroma is caramel and a hint of aromatic hops. Taste is caramel sweetness with a hint of fruitiness and a mild hoppy bitter finish. A decent brown ale which was decently balanced with flavors, but a little thin on body and lightly carbonated.

Tap @ brewpub. Caramel, brown appearance with an off white head. Pretty nice, hazelnutty, toffee, malt centric nose. Nutty, caramel, toffee, big malty flavor. Good session beer.

5 ounce sample draft at the Swans bar at $10.00CAD for 6-samples. Very good.

Pours light brown with a light head. Aroma of oily dark malts. Flavour is a weak nutty flavour, almost stale tasting. Not too good.

Sample glass. Almost no head. Crisp brown liquid. Light oily dark malt aroma. Thin body. High alcohol quality. Thin nutty flavour.

Glass, 5 ounces, cask, at the pub, savoured on April 30, 2009; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, tiny ring of tan head, slight lacing; nose: light nuts, light dusty, light basement, light ash, slight caramel; mouth: watery, light malt, light nuts, light dusty, light chocolate milk, watery finale in malt with presence of ash, medium-light body, lightly sweet, slightly bitter, not much carbonation, thin; overall: disappointing, the nose was announcing something interesting but the mouth was not there FRANÇAIS Verre, 5 onces, cask, bue sur place, savourée le 29 avril 2009; œil : cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse fauve, très légère dentelle; nez : léger noix, léger poussière, léger cave, léger cendré, léger malt caramel; bouche : aqueuse, léger malt, léger noix, léger poussière, léger lait au chocolat, finale aqueuse en malt avec présence de cendré, corps léger-moyen, légèrement sucrée, très légèrement amère, peu carbonatée, mince; en résumé : déçu, le nez annonçait quelque chose d’intéressant mais en bouche, ça tombe

Aroma suggests pears, brown sugar and toasted malts with a floral undertone. Hazy amber-brown body is topped by a decent, fine bubbled tan head that recedes to a relatively well-lasting cover with some nice lacing. Sweetness up front is joined by a quick hit of dark malts and light offsetting bitterness. Caramel lingers in the aftertaste. Medium full body with wonderful soft-bubbled carbonation. Tulip glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle purchased at Brewery Creek in Apr-09.

Draught at the brewpub, hand pulled
Brown-amber color. It has some caramel aroma and a mixed caramel-roasted malt flavor, with a medium dry mouthfeel. Straightforward beer, but quite good.

pours a brown colour with light head.caramel aroma and taste mellow but not my favorite