Nimbus Brown Ale

Brewed by Nimbus Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Tucson, Arizona USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

Bottle thanks to Sparky27. Dark dark brown with a finger of light tan head. Earthy roasty dark malt, aroma borders on chocolatey with some grassy hoppiness. Taste is a dark bitter coffee upfront with some sweetness and molasses coming through and finishes a bit herbal, vegetal, and thin.

12oz bottle-pours a thin tan head with some trailing laceing and dark brown color. Aroma is molasses/chocolate/roasty-dark malt, some earthy hops. Taste is acidic hops first then molasses/chocolate/roasty-dark malt, ashy, which by mid-palate unfortunately disappoints and turns to the thin side. Bottles seem to vary in quality. Notes to this point were first 2 bottles and would be 2.8, next 2 bottles were a cleaner less acidic/thin. Shared with decaturstevo.

12oz bottle, notched Nov. 08, hopefully the bottled on date--thanks to Sparky27 (Eric) for the bottle. Deep brown with a small beige head, fading to a very thin ring--not as thin as the Four Peaks, though. Aroma of oats, some toasted malts, and light roasted malts and nuts. The flavor falls a bit flat and really doesn’t have anything other than some roasty burnt malts. For whatever reason, it loses all sweetness. Bitterness peaks at a 2 in the finish. Thin body with minimal carbonation. Started out decent, but kinda crapped out for me.

No head. Dark flavor is ok, but has a finish which is odd. Very dark. The smell truly is what kills this beer form average, to not that great.

(bottle, from Sparky27, thanks Eric!) Pours dark brown with a small light tan head. The aroma is puzzling, because at times it seems very good, but upon another sniff, it smells slightly offensive and vegetal. The good scents include roasted peanuts, cocoa, light roasted coffee and roasted malt. This is good enough, but sometimes there appears a pungent scent of frozen green peas which takes away from the experience. The taste is really nice, with dominant cocoa, roasted peanuts, subtle dark chocolate, that rounds out to a really pleasant toasted nut finish. The mouthfeel is medium, with the carbonation being just a bit too spritzy. This is a decent beer in that it nailed the toasted nut flavors I expect in a brown, and it would be excellent if the aroma were a little less offensive.

Thanks turdferguson for sharing. Pours a dark copper/brown with some deep ruby notes. The nose was pretty interesting. Not good, interesting. Smells malty, plasticy, DMS?/vegetal, phenolic, not too good on the nose. The flavor is just no good, malty, some mild hop bite, old caramel, tobacco, shoe leather, and turd tasted some molasses. Palate is just gross, terrible hop feel with an undesirable astringency and some plastic taste.

Bottle thanks to cbkshubert. Pours dark reddish brown with lovely beige head. The aroma is sweet caramel and raisin with some chocolate and lots of nuttiness. The flavor is toast, caramel, roasted barley, and a strange ashen earthiness that I can’t seem to put my finger on. It finishes with nuts and a grassy hay note that I assume is the Saaz hops mentioned in the description. There’s a sourish sassafrass note that comes and goes, too. Interesting beer at least.

Courtesy Sparky27. Very dark brown pour with an inch and a half of rocky tan foam. Aroma of light roast and pronounced grassy hops. Flavor of toasty cookie malt, a nutty sweetness somewhere between brown sugar and molasses, some grassy, moderately bitter, and drying hops, and a bit of a twang on the end. Medium body, softly balanced carbonation. Smooth, easy to drink. Solid brown ale- great malt notes balanced and dried enough by the hops to make it very sessionable. Not sure if the twang on the end was intentional, but it works well with the other elements.