Casco Bay Brown Ale

Brewed by Casco Bay Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Brown Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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12 oz bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown with moderate beige head. The aroma is sweet with chocolate and caramel notes, some slight fig and molasses, a touch of leather, and a distant hint of wet forest. The flavor is chocolate and caramel with an ashy bitterness (good- the nose worried me that it would be super sweet). The finish is a bit roasty with some wood and moss hints, and a bitterness that lingers for a bit. Not bad.

(12oz bottle) Pours a clear brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted grain, nuts, and caramel. Flavor of roasted grain, chocolate, and caramel.

12 ounce bottle. Pours mahogany with an average biege head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, and fruit. Taste is malt, caramel, nut, and fruit. Decent but nothing special.

Bottle from Cavie. Brown pour with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted and nutty with a little burned toast. Taste is pretty roasted, a little metallic, and caramel.

Bottle - gift from my friend Vince. It was from his beer of the month club. Dark, cola colored brown with a foamy tan head. Aroma is cocoa, chocolate covered nuts, dark bread and caramel. Taste is big caramel, chocolate, light cocoa, soft nuttiness, dark bread and toasted grains. Body is medium with a smooth, foamy carbonation. Ends with more chocolate, powdery cocoa, caramel toasted malt, dark bread grains and roasted nuts.

from a friend’s beer of month club; nice beer. malty aroma after a walnut brown pour. nice mix of carbonation with taste - which is malty but not too sweet; touch of caramel and slightest of hops - nice.

Beer of the month club selection. Looks good. Dark brown with just off-white head. Bit of a malty nose although not strong or clearly malty. I bit of cocoa. A burnt roasted malt flavor, dry. Light sweetness. The burnt profile is throwing me a bit. Palate is medium.

Pours walnut brown with a thin layer of tan head. Sweet aroma with some hints of honey and brown sugar. Malty flavors dominate with some coffee notes and a bit more of the brown sugar. pretty good beer.

From notes. First reviewed 1/14/2011. Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. This pours a transparent walnut color with a ruby tint throughout. A brisk, foamy eggshell head forms with an aggressive pour, lingering for a minute before fading to a film. No real lacing. The smell contains toasted malt, softly bitter nuts, lightly spiced and earthy hops. The start of the flavor is some soft hazelnut and lightly toasted malt. Earthy hops add a touch of bitterness while there is some brown sugar in here as well. The flavor lingers on the bitter side, with the hop flavor developing further and adding an earthy flavor. The finish is lightly bitter. It has a lightly creamy nature, and the carbonation is on the lighter side of medium. Medium body. I didn’t get enough complexity here to warrant another tasting.

Brownish red and just about opaque. Malt aroma can’t discern anything else. Flavor is nice. Toasty caramel malt flavor. Sweet with no hop characteristics. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a deep dark brown, with a malty aroma. Nice malty taste and flavorful, It is very drinkable with a little bitterness in the finish. Overall pleasantly surprised by this ale. Quaff Score 6 / 10