Pelican Dorymans Dark Ale

Brewed by Pelican Pub & Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Pacific City, Oregon USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Draft. Mahogony beer with a dark cream head. Light toffee aroma with light roast. Light roasted malt flavor with light coffee. Medium bodied. Roasted malt and light caramel linger.

pours a clear brown with a red tint, a large yellowish head, and great lacing. smell is of citrus, hops, with floral notes. taste is a little on the flat side, bitter, citrus, caramel, hoppy, and malt in the back. ends somewhat bland with bitterness and some citrus. doesnt really fit in the brown ale category.

Bottle, purs a clear brown with a ice fluffy light tan head. Tanic aroma of some woody hops and light toasted malt. flavor is like a bitter brown ale. A bit sharp and biting and a light fairly dry feel. Clean and crisp, just a flavor profile I couldn’t get used to.

Chocolate-covered pine needles? Hey whatever, it works. Taste seems to veer between sweet and bitter with every swig.

Pretty good America Brown to me. Poured at a good temperature with a mammoth, foamy, frothy, fluffy, light tan head that lasts for a while and lots of lace. Color is a clear amber brown. Aroma is very mild, malt, and roast. Flavor’s like nose, carbonic tang up front, followed quickly by bitter, then just as quick sweet with an overall hop malt nut sweet. Body is of the classic good standard. Finish is short, like flavor, and drinkable.

Clear dark red with fair, creamy, tan head / Mild, sweet nose of brown sugar, chocolate, and bread / Medium body, sweet, filtered, and malty, bock-like, with mild hopping and good, somewhat bitter finish / Clean flavors of spun sugar, chocolate, nuts, and coffee / Much sweeter, malty, and filtered than a traditional brown ale, but good.

Bottle… Pours clear, dark and dirty orange when held to light. Mid-sized, fluffy, off-white head. Great retention. The aroma is a happy, American-style marriage of caramel malt and light notes of chocolate, grapefruit and spicy hops. Medium-bodied with dancing carbonation. The flavor leans just a touch toward the bitter side of balance, offering moderate notes of caramel and milk chocolate intertwined with citrusy, spicy bitterness. Finishes crisp and lightly bitter.

Dark brown with a slight burnt malt bitterness. A decent tan head with some hops that make the ride balanced.

22 oz bottle. Pours a deep brown color, 1/2" of pale brown head. Roasty and nutty, malty sweet with a nutty finish and lingering hop bitterness. Medium body. Smells of roast malt and nuts. Very complex and flavorful for a brown ale.

Tap at Pelican. Pours to a mahogany brown body with a starch white head. The aroma is of caramel and grains with a subtle milk chocolate. Flavor of deep roasty malt with a nice toast and lemon zest like hops. Chewy medium palate. Nutty.