Haines Spruce Tip Brown Ale

Brewed by Haines Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Haines, Alaska USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Draft in Haines. Poured a hazy brown color with not much head. Aroma has some good malty notes with lots of spruce. Not too hoppy, but lots of spruce which is odd to me. Slightly earthy with a touch of nuts and lots of spruce in the taste. Good balance overall. I like the flavors of the spruce without the bitterness of the hops, but instead the malty goodness.

Draft @ Cafe Amsterdam - Hazy unfiltered rusty brown coloring, sort of has that rusty pipe water from the tap look. Has a lingering ring of foam, and a very tame maltiness on the nose, with a rosy fruitiness, and just a hint of pine and spruce tips. Although those flavors really make their presence known on the palate, in place of what would take the place of hop bitterness , blending with a mild Earthy maltiness, spruce tip bitterness and rose petals. Just a hint of diacetyl blends well into a lignering buttery finish. Decent but not something I could drink regularly.