Lake Placid Bruces Brown Bag Ale

Decent nose, leaving one excited about what’s to come. Poured very dark with thick head, unusual for a brown. Immediate sugar on the mouth, and lots of it. This leads way to a stingging hopeyness that is quite out of place in a brown. Nutts do poke through, with even a shade of cocao after the palate adjusts to all the sugar and bitter. Not one of the better browns I’ve tasted. I hope it simply wasn’t ruined by dirty pipes...

From a fresh growler. Roasty, mildly sweet chocolately aroma with some metallic notes and a bit of piney hoppiness in the nose. Moderately transparent amber/mahogany color with a nice frothy tan head. Mildly sweet, roasted chocolate start, turning significantly piney and hoppy to finish. These appear to be Cascades. This is not to style at all and way overhopped, but it is still a decent-drinking ale.

growler...reddish brown pour with creamy tan head. Sweet malty aroma, brown sugar. Sweet malty start, sugary. Middle lends to some nice roasted malt character and some decent bitterness. The sticky sweetness stays on the tongue as the bitterness dances away. Nice complexity. This is one of the nicest brown ales I have tasted; its too bad that Lake Placid doesn’t brew this more often. It is hard to believe that I am the first to rate.