DuClaw Euforia (Euphoria)

Brewed by DuClaw Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Abingdon, Maryland USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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(Bowie) Clear copper body with an off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, toffee, some chocolate. Taste is sweet, toffee/butterscotch, chocolate, light nut. Light-medium body with light stickiness. I found this too sweet to be wholly enjoyable.

Bottle. Pours a nutty brown caramel with a small beige head. Nose is lightly nutty, toffee, caramel. Palate is full, light syrup texture with a slighty bite in the finish. Flavors of nuts, molasses, toffee, caramel.

Part of a 9 piece sampler at DuClaw Bowie, MD. Clear orange, off white head. Aroma is roasted nuts. Flavor is roasted nuts, caramel, coconut, and vanilla. A bit too sweet for me.

Draft. Pours deep, clear amber with and small, fizzy off-white head; decent retention and lacing. Aroma is toffee, caramel malt, and toasted pine nuts. Flavor is more subtle than expected; toffee/caramel malt heavy with very faint earthy hop undertones. Light body, medium carbonation, and low warmth.

On tap @ Arundel Mills. Brown pour w/a moderate head. Roasted malt/nut aroma. Some flavors of caramel, almond, roasted malt, toffee. Had some decent flavor to it, more than a lot of Brown Ales. It’s no secret these beers aren’t my favorate style, & I really only drink them if I can get a sample for a free ratings tick, but this beer wasn’t bad. Still wouldn’t seek it out, I just find this style boring.

Draft: Poured a red brown with off white colored head. Aroma was light malt. The taste is malty up front with a grassy hops back. Didn’t really get this beer really.

20100324 Tap at Bel Air location. Dark burgundy color, clear, with lasting beige head. Aroma is actually a bit odd, because while there are absolutely some caramel malt notes, some marshmallow, raisin, there is also a disconcerting whiff of old crusty ick. And I definitely know that smell, and its not on my sleeve or anything. I checked. Body is pleasant, creamy, full, and slightly sticky. Flavor is lush with toffee, marshmallow, toasted coconut. Slight lingering earthy bitterness cleans it up at the finish. At first, once past the aroma, this beer is interesting and successful, but it goes from novel to tiresome after half the glass and eventually, sadly, I just couldn’t wait to be done.

Pours a browish amber with a smaller off white head. Aroma was all toffee, almost in an artificial way. Tasted like toffee soda.

On tap at Duclaw, Bowie on 14 July 2006. Mid brown / copper colour - quite good looking. Sweet shop confectionery, cream soda and bubblegum are prominent in the aroma and flavour. Very sweet and rather sickly. Not really my thing at all. Certainly not euphoric.

Murky brown body with tiny beige head. The aroma is toffee, nuts and raisins. The flavor is quite sweet, lots of toffee, lightly herbal hops, some dark fruits and nuts. Medium body is rough with moderate carbonation. It was a struggle to finish this one.