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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Draft at Haymarket’s PP night. Roasty but brown aroma. Dry and nice.  Light brown red. Sweet cocoa flavors with red fruits. Kind of an odd combo to put that much emphasis on fruits. 8/3/7/3/14

On tap at Pizza Port. Clear reddish brown with fizzy off-white head. Grainy malty aroma. Slightly bright palate. Sweet malty taste, bready, hint of nuts, nothing much of a finish.

SDFOB-2008. Draft. A very good brown ale. Some different banana flavors that are tasty. Some brown sugar and cinnamon too. An excellent session beer.

On tap @ Papago. Listed as Good Grief *Charlie* Brown. Pours clear reddish brown with a minimal tan head. The nose is coffee, roasted nuts, cocoa and charred malt. The taste is ashy cocoa, light coffee and chocolate malt. Medium body. Good Brown.

Draft on tap at Haymarket’s Pizza Port Event (Chicago, IL). Pours a nice darker brownish hue, near transparent but dark pour. A decent frothy tannish head dies to a film and laces small. Aromas are molasses and chestnuts, toffee, biscuits. Some cocoa dryness works in with a touch of dry hops. But this is a malt monster, complex toast and peanuts, cocoa. Initial is touches of molasses, brown malts, toast. Some caramel, toffee, and earthy dark fruit sweetness, a touch tart work in. Into some raisins, cocoa, some more molasses, with a nice toastiness. Touches of tobacco. This gives shades of Pullman Brown, meaning it pushes the edge towards a Brown Porter.. But gives a weird tartness. Solid beer, but not as good as Pullman. One of the better Browns I’ve had though. Really drinkable, toasty and sweet, earthy works well.

On tap at Pizza Port Carlsbad. Clear medium-dark brown in color with a nice off-white head. Aroma is malty with nuts, brown sugar, and roast. Flavor is nice for a brown ale, with more brown sugar than usual, along with caramel malt, roast, nuts, molasses, and a touch of hops. Body and carbonation are medium and finish is slightly dry.

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 Taproom in Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA--Poured a dark brown-chestnut0tinged body with a little sudsy whitish head. Big grainy, cereal and mild coffee nose. Sweet and reminiscent of Captain Crunch/Mr. T cereal/Sugar Smacks. bright, crisp mouthfeel. Bready, grainy, cereal. Pretty decent.

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

(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.