Phillips Ancient Brown Ale

Brewed by Phillips Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Victoria, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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(650ml bottle) Pours a lasting, creamy beige head atop a deep mahogany body. Nose is rather attractive - somewhat a sour porter with the ash base. Oddly thin. Strange taste - starts as cigarette butt water and glides into a tart lactic finish. Sad, so much promise. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPod; and powered by RateBeer.com, the world’s largest and most accurate beer database.

650mL bottle, pours a very dark brown with a quarter inch of tan head. Aroma is very malty, with caramel malts, brown sugar, molasses, roasted malt and light nuts - very pleasant on the nose. Flavour is dominated by metallic notes though, sadly, with a bit of roasted malt, caramel, toasted bread and toasted nuts coming through. Sort of a chemical-like aftertaste as manuchampions points out. Drinkable, but not good.

Pours a very dark brown verging on black with a stiff, slowly shrinking tan head. Aroma is slightly roasted malt, light nuttiness, caramel and cocoa. Mouthfeel is a tad watery. Taste is sadly dominated by a metallic note, with light roasted malt, caramel and worrying buttery, chemical after taste. This beer is so new surely it isn’t infected? Yep, there’s a not pleasant note at the end that ruins any lingering maltiness. Not good considering how wonderful it looked in the glass. .