Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

650 ml, thanks to General Gao. Opaque chestnut with a small, enduring film of cream. Light aroma is cocoa, coffee and dry oats. Tastes of molasses, cocoa, lightly soured cream, and berries. Finish is sweetish coffee, dark toasted nut and dry oats. Medium-heavy body is smooth with light carbonation. Slightly sticky and roasty dry on the finish.

Sample at Flossmoor Station. Pours medium brown with no head. Aroma is coffee with a touch of caramel and nuts. Flavor is mostly coffee with a hazelnut-like sweetness. Good beer, second only to Big Black Pumpkin this evening.

Pours dark brown with a huge tan head. The head never fully dissipates, leaving some copious lacing. Aroma is malt, nuts, coffee, grain, and maple. Taste is of nutty malt, maple, grain, and brown sugar. Has a heavy, lingering coffee bite. Thick, sticky mouthfeel. Borders more on porter than brown ale. Very good.

22 oz bomber. Pours a very dark brown cola with a medium sized light brown head. Aroma of light molasses, cola and malt. Taste of light fizzy molasses, cola and nuts.

Rating 111, Bomber via trade with BBB63, thanks Mike for another great beer. Tons of foam on the pour, had to let settle. Nose is huge like the foam. Pours brown with a wonderful head. Nose is great, with big notes of molasses, brown sugar and sweet malts. Taste is sweet and sticky with a lot of flavor. Its always nice to find an exceptional brown, because in my opinion it is a style that is usually very flawed. This is very nice, very rich and incredibly smooth.

Tap at the Station. This may be the best brown ale ever brewed. Black as a train plume, thicker than Oil! Nutty, molassesy, caramelized, darkly sweet. Not at all thin, grainy or secretly a porter. Blow the whistle! And keep on blowin’! WOO-WOOOO!!!

(10/14/08) Draught sample at the brewpub in Flossmoor. Very dark brown to black color with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, some dark fruits and coffee notes. Sweet malty flavor with roastiness, nutty notes, some coffee and caramel. Medium to full-bodied. Nice stuff.

22 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown body with a nice creamy one finger tight bubbled head. Very nutty nose, a little husky, cocoa powder, cereal grains, and light roast coffee. Pretty sweet flavor, lots of hazelnut and cocoa powder, with a little bit of yeast. Very husky and nutty on the finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with that slightly course grainy feel to it. Overall, pretty nice beer, though a little too grainy. I could go for a little bit more creaminess.