Ipswich Dark Ale

Brewed by Ipswich Ale Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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12 oz bottle - Pours a medium brown color with a reddish tint, and a decent off white head. Aroma is a solid mix of candied sugar, nutty malts, caramel and fruity hops. Taste is roasted malt which is very nicely balanced by a hoppy bitterness. Suprised, and pleased, by the hoppy bitter finish. I liked this one quite a bit.

Pours a dark dark brown with a small tan head that dissipates fairly quickly. Aroma gives off a lot of citrus hops as well as malty molasses. Taste is a roasted malt with a strong hop bitterness that flows through the finish. Good beer!

12 oz bottle. Pours a dark oblique brown. Small white head, little lace. Lively carbonation. Full of sediment that you can just barely make out through the murkiness. . Flavor is lightly sweet and light to medium bitter. Tastes of malt, roast, hops, resin, light nuts, slight rye, and a hint of chocolate. This brew has a level of complexity. And as a whole, Ipswich is a fine brewery!

Brown with a huge tan head. Aroma of very sweet caramel malt. Taste is sweet and malty, medium body, sticky.

Chocolaty ale aroma with a west coast tinge. Nice label, murky walnut brown beer. Grassy-earthy notes, floral/citrus overtones combined with a coffeish brown ale flavor. Medium body. FInishes with coffee and grapefruit pith hop bitterness. The occasional chemical and grassy note in the finish. Good. Ale in the Mail selection, June 2007.

Muddy brown body with minimal off-white head. Aroma is sweet, fig, caramel, raisin. Taste is medium sweet, herbal, coffee, some chocolate and raisin, light grapefruit, finishing roasty coffee. Medium body that works well with the flavor. Pleasant, rather drinkable beer.

A bitter, cloudy brown ale. Odd color. Very malty.

12 oz bottle. Pours a very dark woody brown with a thin lasting off white head. Aroma is nutty, with hints of roast and light chocolate- a bit dusty, very low on the herbal grassy hops. Flavor is nutty, earthy, good chocolate and toasted malts, light roast- clean grassy herbal hops in the end. Seemed almost a cross between a dunkel and a brown ale- smooth and clean in the end.

Deep dark brown coloured body, a touch muddy at the bottom with a very thick, three centimetre tall tan head that leaves a nice lace. Aroma of very light earthy hops, a nice toasted malt note, some brown sugar, raisins and a touch of light spices. Medium-bodied; Nice mix of fresh, but low alpha acid hops with a good robust malt, complete with an earthiness behind and a little sugar, as well as a touch of alcohol. Aftertaste shows some more complex and well-rounded tastes, showing mostly earth, malt and a faint hop bitterness. Overall, a nicely and well-done brown that shows good characteristics and a non-obtrusive finish. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Wegman’s in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 22-July-2011 sampled at home in Washington on 29-September-2011.

Pours cloudy dark brown with s small to moderate brown head. Aroma is of citrus hops, with some slight sweet malts. Flavor is very well balanced, caramel, roasted malt and a nice dry hop finish. Enjoyable.