Bull and Bones Maroon Effect Ale

Brewed by Bull and Bones Brewhaus and Grill‎
Style: Brown Ale
Blacksburg, Virginia USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Tap at brewery. Pours clear brown with a medium, fizzy off-white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is nutty and caramel malt, woody hops, and light fruity esters (dates). Flavor is light chocolate and nutty malt, light bitterness, and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear mahogany brown with a light tan head. Aroma of sweet malt, crystal malt, and light citrus. Flavor of sweet malts, a touch of nutty/roasty brown malts, and some floral hops. A bit sweet but a pretty good brown ale. 7/4/6/4/14 [3.5/5]

American Brown ale with more hopping than found in British Browns. I actually like the malt in this beer even though the hopping is a tad forward to really have the malt shine.

This very American take on a brown ale is hop dominant. Pours tawny brown, crystal clear, with a 2 finger off-white head. Hops are out to kill in this beer, starting with a quick juicy attack which fades to a deep spiciness, and finally settling into a slight coffee and cocoa malt note.

Amber/brown pour with tan head and lace. Caramel malt with a hint of chocolate aroma. Light caramel malt with a nice bitter finish from some earthy hops. Thin and foamy.

on tap-pours a light brown head and copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-chocolate, citrus. Taste is sweet medium malt-chocolate, citrus-orange. Just beyond light body. Nice. Close to a mild with some chocolates notes. Easy.

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2010 On tap at the brewpub on 02/19/2010. Clear brown body with a small frothy off-white head. Sweet malty aroma with light caramel. Sweet brown malt, roast, caramel and light chocolate flavor. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. 6/3/7/3/13 - 3.2 On tap at the Virginia Beer Festival at Capital Ale House - Midlothian on 07/03/2009. Mostly clear brown amber body with a medium foamy tan head. Sweet nutty and caramel aroma. Sweet nutty and caramel flavor. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 7/4/6/3/14 - 3.4

Sampled at the Virginia Beer Festival. I appreciated the blatant pandering to the VA Tech crowd with the name. Medium brown. Lightly nutty and citric hop aroma. Not much flavor, just sort of vaguely nutty malts, not hoppy like I had anticipated from the aroma. OK though. As a side note, this ended up being my 2100th rating!

Draft: Slight metallic aroma. Light bronze color, clear. Grapefruit and piney flavors with more of the latter at midpalate. Subdued caramel on the palate. A healthy amount of hops in a brown ale.

Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear copper color with a medium head. Good head retention and fair lacing. Malty aroma with caramel and toffee notes. Taste is bitter hops, toffee, brown sugar and a vegetal finish. Medium bodied.