Pizza Port Good Grief Brown Ale

Brewed by Pizza Port (Carlsbad)
Style: Brown Ale
Carlsbad, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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A clear shiny light brown, more amber than anything, nice creamy tan head... Nice nose, light roasted coffee and vanilla, simple but good... Light and simple taste, a brown with vanilla, super easy to drink

Tap at the Monk. Toffee and caramel on the nose, slight malt sweetness in the taste which drops away quickly finishing a tad thin.

From the tap poured a brown color with a good amount of head. Nice light malty sweet flavor with a quick finish.

A: The pour is a dark brown color with a touch of red highlights to it as well. A finger of tan head caps it off. S: Lots of nutty aromas along with plenty of cocoa, roasted malt, and dark chocolate. Toffee and caramel provide the bulk of the sweetness and there is a nice toasted malt character as well. T: The flavor profile is pretty much the same as the smell. A nice sweetness of toffee and caramel, as well as milk chocolate. A touch of bitter dark chocolate, roasted malt, and the usual nuttiness. M: Medium in body with a moderate carbonation to it. D: A really solid brown ale. A nice, but not overwhelming, sweetness to it.

A reddish brown ale with a thick brown head. In aroma, a nice nutty malt with roasted coffee beans, quite nice. In mouth, a nice roasted malt with light ashen notes, coffee, nice and balanced. On tap at Big Dog Winterfest, Jan. 29 2011.

(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a medium cream head. Aroma of caramel, cocoa, earth, roasted malt, and toffee. Flavor of caramel malt, nuts, toasted grain, roasted malt, and chocolate.

On draught at Maui Brewing Company in Lahaina, HI. The beer is a dark brown color with a medium tan head that diminishes to an outer ring eventually. Rings of lacing on the glass. Malty aroma with some dark fruit and coffee notes. Medium body with a rich malty character and flavors of roasted coffee, bittersweet chocolate and raisins. The finish is malty with a lingering roasty sweetness left behind. Pretty good all around.

On tap at Pizza Port Carlsbad. Pours with a huge brown head and a brown body. Aroma is of brown sugar, raisins, nuts and molasses. Taste is dry, raisins, brown sugar, and molasses. Lively bubbles, decently well attenuated.

(on tap at carlsbad). Pours dark brown with off-white head. Aroma is smoky dark coffee. Taste is sweetish (but watery) and has a dry bitterness. Medium bodied with low carbonation. Finish is bitter. I’m not a brown ale fan, but I do prefer it with hops.

On tap@Port Carlsbad: Dark, dark brown color with a small tan head. Aroma is lightly nutty and chocolate. Flavor is lightly sweet with some coffee, a hint of chocloate and a light dry coffee bitter finish. Light body, moderate carbonation.