Hook and Ladder Backdraft Brown Ale

Caramel malt aroma, dark bown color with a medium tan head that thins out after the pour. Caramel/coffee flavor with a rich aftertaste. I think this is a very solid beer.

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass for drinking. A dark brown color with a red hue and an average to small, creamy, tan head that had modest cling and retention. A roasty malt aroma, with faint notes of caramel and some grainy hops. The flavor was modestly sweet with a bitter finish, light maltyness, but a slightly watery effect too. A wet and watery, but thinner beer with little mouthfeel and a small amount of carbonation. Not a very exciting beer, but acceptable.

Bottle from Orlando Total Wine. Brown pour with a nice light brown head. Aroma has some nuts, caramel, malts and a hint of hops. Flavor is fairly weak. Some caramel malts and a very faint bitterness. Not great.

(bottle - 12 oz) Dark brown pour with a fluffy brown head. Aroma is lightly sweet with hints of nuts, caramel, toffee, and toasted malts. Flavor sadly isn’t as rich as the aroma. Some caramel and roasted malts but lacked the nuttiness I thought would be there. A bit thin-bodied and a little sour at the end.

Pours a brown color with a tan head. Aroma is of nuts, caramel malts, toasted malts, and a little hop aroma. Flavor is of caramel and roasted malts right away with a slightly bitter finish. A good brown but nothing special.

Dark brown, with nice thick two finger head with great retention. aroma was stale and flavor was bland. Bottled could have oxidized due to cardboard taste. No pop or excitement out of this one.

A deep dark brown ale witha thick moka head. Pleasant aroma of nuts and hops, restrained. In mouth, a rather averge brown ale, with sufficient British hops and some good nutty malt. 5.50$ at Ray’s The Classics in Silver Spring, MD.

the pleasant aroma promised a slightly sweet complex maltiness but the flavor did not deliver! it tasted cheap and generic with little or no flavor and a finish that never began.