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Nodding Head Grog


 Percentile 
72
overall
A Brown Ale brewed by
Nodding Head Brewery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

bottling
unknown

on tap
common

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773.32/5.03.28/5.05%77.7Dimpled mug P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Philadelphia’s most award winning beer....This brown ale is medium bodied, flavorful, and balanced....Great dark session beer.
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 Prcaus (159), New Jersey, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/54/103/59/20

Oct 8, 2007  
Draft-Nodding Head Center City Philadelphia. Dark Brown ale, came highly recommended but not a big fan. It does have a slight chocolate/earthy flavor but overall nothing overwhelming and not enjoyable to me when it was serviced lukewarm. Its still better than Monkey Knife fight...

 WeeHeavySD (2781), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/514/20
Jun 21, 2009  
A beer, my girlfriend has always loved, and not that I wasn’t trying everything they had, but I knew I had to have this. Pours blackish with a 1 finger tan head. Nose is deep malty. Taste has some nice choconess, syrupy and pretty decent.


 puzzl (2339), New York, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/514/20
Mar 23, 2009  
Tap at the brewpub. Smells like burnt rubber tires, or maybe burnt out clutch. Yuck. Rubbery, chemical flavor, with a mild chocolate. Low carbonation, a bit nutty in the finish. A bit of an odd-ball beer. I appreciate the effort, I guess.


 JoeMcPhee (4509), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Mar 18, 2009  
Dark brown beer with a thin tan head. Aroma is lightly phenolic as well. A bit of earthy chocolate in the nose. Malty sweetness with more caramel obvious through the middle. Slightly astringent toward the back of the palate. The body is initially full-bodied, but it seems to thin the more of it you drink. It’s okay, but it’s no brown ale....


 blipp (1407), Grand Island, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Mar 6, 2009  
Draft. Pours deep brown with a thin beige head. Light sweet malt aroma with a hint of roast. The flavor has a nice sweet/roasted malt balance with a hint of hops in the finish.


 fredandboboflo (1168), East Setauket, New York, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/513/20
Feb 21, 2009  
Tap at the brewpub. Aroma of smoke, sweet malt, coffee. Flavor has a hint of chocolate, more smoke, sweet malt. A touch sweet, but not disastrously so.


 joshwilfong (714), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Jan 26, 2009  
dark brown with white head. flavor of some chocolate malt, not much depth. dry finish that leaves a somewhat acidic aftertaste. pretty standard brown. ordinary at best


 LilBeerDoctor (1291), East Setauket, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/514/20
Jan 10, 2009  
On tap at the brewpub. Pours black with a pretty thick tan head. Aroma of sweet malt. Flavor of crystal malt, roasted malt. Sessionable, certainly, but this is TOO sweet (a common theme among Nodding Head beers it seems...). 6/4/6/3/14 (3.3/5)


 santoslhalper (327), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jan 6, 2009  
Pretty good for a brown. Simple, clean, and easy to drink. I’m really impressed by how flawless Nodding Heads brews are, meaning no off-flavors in sight. I could drink this all night.



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