English Ales Monks Brown Ale

Brewed by English Ales Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Marina, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Brown pour with decent sized head, some nutty malts. Cereal notes in flavor, some fruits, this paired perfectly with vanilla ice cream, which made it taste more coffee in notes. Good finish.

Tap. Brown pour. Aroma is roasted malts. Flavor is also roasted malts. Very pleasant drinking.

12oz bottle. Pours brown with almost no tan head. Slight aroma of roast malt, taste of lightly roast malt. Minimal after taste. Nice sessioner, unremarkable.

Brown with a thin off white head. Aroma is malty, nice nuttiness, caramel, lightly roasty. Taste is nicely malty, hazelnut, light background hoppiness, caramel.

Sampled on tap at Phils Fish Market in Moss Landing. A pretty nice brew. Sweet maltiness. It was very clean and crisp.

Good nutty character. This beer pours a reddish cola color, quite clear, with little head. The nose is all specialty malt. I’m trying to come up with better descriptors, but this one is all nuts for me. It’s a good nuttiness but a little one-note ultimately. That said, I like nutty brown ales, so I’m really not disappointed. The flavor is a bit too sweet. There’s some sugary malt that gets a bit in the way. Mouthfeel is probably better from a cask but it’s still not bad from the bottle - slippery but clean. This is a nice session beer, and it’s always good to see more nearby breweries dabbling in English styles.

(br-btl or-lbl, English Ales Brewery in Marina CA, 4.8%)

cpr-lct, §head, med co2, full body, roasted malt T1 bitter T2 musty §crcl T3.

On tap at the brewpub. Dark brown with small white head, nose of roasted malts. Serve a little too cold, but had good carbonation. I’m thinking this would be much better as it warms up.

Draught at the brewpub. Brown with a small head. Lightly burn toasted bread and light hops in the aroma. Sweet, toffeeish malt flavors with a dry, lightly roasted finish. Light bodied with medium carbonation. A decent brown, but nothing to write home about.

Pours brown with a small off white head. It has a faint nutty aroma. The taste is of nuts and mild baking spices, particularly anise. A pretty typical brown ale, not exciting, but goes down nice with food.