omhper (10438), Stockholm, Sweden Aug 26, 2002 Chestnut brown. Apple and coffee aroma. Lightish body, fairly dry, rather complex, but perhaps on the edge of feeling thin. Oakes (6853), Miami Beach, Florida, USA Dec 2, 2000 Dark chestnut colour. Aroma shows fairly assertive (for this brewery) caramel-toffee flavour and a whiff of dying embers. The body is a light, but these flavours persist. Dries as it goes. muzzlehatch (4425), Burlington, Vermont, USA May 13, 2004 Bottle. Dark maple color, lasting head, clear. Decent malty/molasses nose. Not a heckuva lot of flavor unfortunately, just some boring light fruity (cherry) bits amidst the undistinguished maltiness, in a too-light body. A bit of odd sourness also detracts. Next! jbrus (4117), Delft, Netherlands Oct 12, 2001 A bit sweet, hoppy, a bit spicy. maeib (3949), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Apr 7, 2004 Bottled - Smokeless Joes Toronto. i do wish brown ales would come themselves brown rather than dark. I was hoping for a black beer but got a mid brown schwarzbier like tasting beer. Not unpleasant and had some nutty qualities but nowt special.
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