Independence Brewing Bootlegger Brown Ale

Brewed by Independence Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Austin, Texas USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Dark brown color; poor head. Some aroma of caramel, roasted malt, cereals. Strange flavor, like a mild and sweetish rest of coffee. Below expectations.

(Bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a medium creamy beige head. Aroma of roastiness, chocolate, caramel, and nuts. Flavor of roasted malt, cocoa, and caramel with a dry finish.

Date: May 28, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Bhalter Summersalter
Appearance: clear brown, fine grey head, drippy lace
Aroma: light chocolate aroma, touch of earthyness
Flavor: dry chocolate flavor, just a touch of sweetness, drying earthyness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Bottle poured a clear reddish brown with a lingering riung of tan foam. Aromas of carmel, toffee, light earthiness and light fruittiness. Palae was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors oif toffee, carmel, nuttiness and light earthiness with a smooth lingering toffee finish.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with bu11zeye (thanks!). Poured a deeper and cloudy brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of roast, chocolate, and caramel. Tastes of roast, chocolate, nuts, and had a light coffee bitter finish.

Bottle courtesy of lb4lb. Pours brown with a tan head. Smells of dough, some sweet malt. Taste is of chocolate and sugar with some dryness. On the boring side of the brown ale spectrum.

Sample at the Texas Beer & Brats tasting 10/11/2009. The beer is a dark brown color with a thin light beige head that recedes to a film eventually. Roasty malt aroma with notes of nuts and hops. Medium, smooth body with flavors of roasted malt and nuts, hops and a bit of chocolate. The finish is roasty with a lingering malt aftertaste. Above average overall.

bottle, amber color with good caramel candy and chocolate flavors, medium body and finish of cocoa and brown sugar

Bottle (12oz). Courtesy of my secret santa. Almost opaque deep ruby-brown with an average fizzy-foamy diminishing off-white head. Nice oily sweet roast malt aroma, nutty, cola-ish, some chocolate and peat, decent pungent hops. Taste is quite roasty, coffee/chocolate and earthiiness, decent hops but a little too much cola sweetness in the finish. Average body, a little over-carbonated, sweet finish - not bad.

Bottle: Light brown color, light head. Nose of light earthy hops and a caramelly maple note. The flavor is chewy with nutty cocoa note, mild chocolate and a sweet nuggat overtone. Decent brown ale, in the middle, decent body, robust tail. Respectable.