Garrison Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Garrison Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Halifax, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Pours a nice clear brown colour with big off white head that quickly dissolves into a tiny little ring. Aroma is malty, sweet, caramel, chocolate, nutty, and getting a bit of toast. Flavour is malty, caramel, chocolate, toast, mild-medium bitterness, faint citrus and a dry finish. Tasty beer especially if its not ice cold.

Decent full bodied ale with a good mix of tastes- chocolate, oakey. Smooth finish, but not as thick textured as one would expect.

An OK beer, but it’s juuuuuuust over the border to a nut brown, almost just a run-of-the-mill ale. My tongue didn’t get any nuts. Or go nuts for that matter. A little too carbonated, too. But nice for the autumn in Halifax I guess, certainly wasn’t offensive.

Pas méchant, mais surtout pas mémorable. Saveur torrefié mal soutenu, fini assez sec.

Pours a dark brown with a tan head. Nose is nutty, roasted. Easy drinking, malt light smoke almost. Not a bad beer.

341ml bottle from tasters 6-pack pours brown in color with a finger of light beige head which leaves a few spots of lacing behind. Aroma is light roasted malts and chocolate. Taste is light malty sweetness with a hint of chocolate and an earthy nuttiness with some mild hop bitterness as well. Medium bodied and lightly carbonated for a decent enough feel on the palate. Pretty good beer.

Pours dark brown colour with some tan head. Has a real smoked aroma to me, some roasted malts and also has a bit of funk. It is a medium bodied brew almost watery lacking real complexity or flavour. although it is one of their better brews.

Draft served in a pint glass at Hart & Thistle. Pours a dark, cloudy chocolate brown with a small tan head. Aroma of toasted barley malts, gritty roast, chocolate, wheat, and toasted sugar. The flavor comes across as a weaker version of the same notes, with an odd, mineral finish. Light-medium bodied, with moderate carbonation and a mouthfeel that starts nice and toasty before falling out into a minerall mess. My wife, always a sucker for brown ales, liked this more than I did.

341ml bottle. I seem to have found this more nutty and woodsy that the other ratings here, but still good, nonetheless.

Pour copper/burgundy beige head. Aroma chocolate, cocoa, nutty, malt sweetness, mild hopping, farm type aroma. Taste nutty, caramel, toffee, biscuit, malty sweet, beer nuts. MF medium to light body with fine prickly carb. Overall forgettable.