Full Sail Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Hood River, Oregon USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Hands down the best Nut Brown Ale I’ve ever tried. Sick and tired of "nut" ales that are flavorless and watered down. This ale has flavors of amaretto, almond, roasted pecan, caramel, and chocolate. Also smooth as can be. On draft at the Full Sail Brewery in Hood River, OR. Nice 4 oz sample. I brought a bottle home all the way to Tampa!

Full Sail has been doing great things. This ale has a lot of toasty malt with hints of caramel and coffee, but not too sweet. Fruity hop aroma and medium bitterness.

Out of the bottle we see a medium brown-colored ale, quite distinct because it lacks any ruby or reddish undertones. Clear. Head is 1 shade past off-white, is rocky, and lingers. Aroma has distinct brown malt notes, nutty, lightly toasty, dusty, savory, woody, forest, hinting at cocoa but not roasted or burnt. Tastes spot-on to what an American Brown Ale should taste like. Balanced sweetness with a dry nuttiness. Carbonation gives it a clean finish with a slightly nutty aftertaste. A fine example of the style.

Nice caramel nose with some fruitiness and light cocoa. Deep crimson in the light looks brown in the glass. A nice eggshell white head and no lacing. Very creamy mouthfeel. Lots of cocoa chocolate in the flavor, nice toffee presence and a crisp, hoppy finish. This is a lovely beer! Thanks André.

Full Sail Brewing Company--Nut Brown Ale--1998 12 oz. Bottle Release. 5.50% ABV. (3.75 / 5.0) Brown Ale--Deep dark reddish brown color. Chalky malt body with slightly hoppy front. Hoppy complexity to chocolate and fruity malts. Sampled 9/12/1998. Full Sail Brewing Company--Nut Brown Ale--Brewmaster Reserve 2008 22 oz. Bottle Release. 6.00% ABV--31 IBU’s. (4.25 / 5.0) Brown Ale--Thin lacy mild head. Clear thin dark mahogany bronze red color. Mellow cacao nut hop front. Dry sweet thin textured crisp mild toasted doughy mild nut mellow chocolate malt body. Easy smooth refreshing mild hop end. Mild nut notes. Very drinkable. Sampled 1/24/2009 & 2/15/2010. Aged Well. Tasty tangy smooth calming Brown. 4--$4.00 Each.

Clear deep red mahogany. Rich nutty chocolate aroma, very malty nutty chocolate palate, sweet with a moderately bitter dry finish. Really flavourful, delicious.

Appearance: Pours a clearish, dark brown body with a small, thin, ivory-colored head. Smell: Malty, chocolatey nose with slightly lesser notes of caramel and roasted nut husks. Taste: Dry, nutty flavor with a bit of chocolate and a light caramel sweetness. Mild spicy hops and bitterness. Nuts all the while. Obligatory nutty, relatively smooth finish with a final taste of chocolate. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: A fine, respectable brown ale. Better than most, even!

Brewmaster reserve 2008. Aroma is a sweet roasted caramel scent. Color is a deep near solid amber with good carbonation and a thick tight head. Taste is bold, rich and roasted. Starting with a medium body it goes down with a smooth feel that has a slight crispness in the end. Finish comes in with a deep roasted flavor that has a sweet caramel taste and a rich feel, all of this is followed by a very light bitterness. After taste leaves you with a nice sour roasty flavor. Not one of my favorite styles but this is a very interesting brew. Its bold and very complex with the sour note on the end making it stand out from other Brown Ales.

From a 22 oz bottle this poured a very dark red that looked muddy brown from the front but was very clear held up to the light. It raised a robust rocky tan head, and left very sticky lacing like carpenters glue on the sides of the glass. Nose was of roasted malts with some light coffee and chocolate. Mouthfeel was very smooth and rich tending to being almost slick. The flavor is mostly of the roasted malts, semi-sweet chocolate, burnt toast, and the nuts that give it the name. The finish is long and dry This is a without a doubt one of the finest brown ales I have seen. A worthy brew. I know I am going to be one of the highest raters, but I loved this brew.

Tawny body. Slightly tobaccoey, nutty aroma. Full-bodied, nutty, with some chocolate character. Full, sweet finish. Superbly balanced, lots of flavour.