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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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.

Kind of a soapy malty aroma. Looks great. This is pretty nice. Nutty and malty, a little thin in the finish. Good not great.

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.

cask @ redlight redlight. spicy brown sugar aromas, malty, caramelly, with a spicy hop aroma. Pours dark brown with a thick tan head. Smooth and sweet, very malty, with a hop spiciness in the background. Extremely smooth and easy to drink, this makes for an excellent beer to serve cask conditioned.

Cask at Redlight. Pours a deep brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is malty, spicy, brown sugar. Taste is smooth and malty, slightly thin, with a nice balance of sweetness and hop bitterness. Very nice session beer.

Bottled. A red-brown beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and nuts. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and nuts, leading to a dry, bitter, and nutty finish.

UPDATED: MAR 11, 2008 The second bottle of this wasn’t soured, much better brown ale. Malty caramel earthy hops towards the finish that compliment the malts nicely. Same thing as previous poster, BOM club. What I was expecting from this was way off, maybe a malty brown? noooo... something got all infected in this, turned out like a sour brown. I still have a few more to try, so I’ll see if they are all like this or just one. Strangly although it wasn’t that great, it still wasn’t the worst thing ever, I still drank most of it.

Slightly roasty soapy aroma. Color is a light translucent brownish red. Palate is surprisingly thick, warming. Flavor is caramel, dark roasty malt, smooth and slightly sweet. Not as bad as I expected.

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.

This must be newly bottled? It came in the BOM club, so I’m surprised to see only 6 ratings. Anyway, solid brown. The last time I had a brown where I put the glass down and said WOW was Brooklyn brown. This isn’t that good.