Rock Bottom Brown Bear Brown

Brewed by CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries -Rock Bottom Corporate Office
Style: Brown Ale
Chattanooga, Tennessee USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Dark brown with a thin brown head. Aroma of mildly roasted malt, caramel and mild nuts. Taste of darker malts, caramel and nuts with a metallic finish. Semi-sweet and ok at best.

Sampler at Rock Bottom Campbell, CA, 31/08/12. Dark ruby frilled with beige. Coffee, chiccory, slight coal aroma. Good, sweet, lightly-dusted taste with a distinctly English feel; mocha, blackcurrrant hints, ash and coal smoke. Good.

Tap at Bethesda. Pours clear brown with a medium, fizzy beige head, short retention with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (chocolate, toast, nutty, caramel), light hops (woody), and light esters (fruity) with notes of brown sugar and dates. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth with a sweet finish.

Reviewed from notes. On tap at the Rock Bottom in Bethesda, MD. Pours a moderate brown color with some caramel coloring to it. The nose brings forward a moderate amount of sweet malt and a tad bit of brown sugar. Some light fruits and toffee there as well. Hints of roasted smoke. Good flavor with some sugary sweetness and some roast. Moderate body with lower levels of carbonation. Pretty good flavors but nothing really carrying them through. Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 10-24-2010

Cask pour at Desert Ridge. Clear brown. Malty aroma with some light aromas of toasted nuts. Flavor is very lightly hopped, nutty and malty. Ok.

Clear brown pour with a thin white head. Malty chocolate aroma. Chocolate malt flavor with nutty notes. Bitter hop finish.

Brown porter on tap at the San Jose/Campbell, CA brewpub. Mahogany pour with a cream colored head. Excellent lacing. Not much nose. Taste is sweet malt and caramel rounded out by medium hop bitterness but no hop bite. Watery in the mouth.

Draught at the Campbell location. They describe this as a brown porter, and I don’t really disagree with that assessment, though it is definitely on the edge of brown ale as far as the style goes. Dark brown color with a lasting light beige head. Dark bread crust and light chocolate aroma, with a light toasty grain quality and some caramel. The flavor is on the sweet side and has light chocolate and dark toast. A bit flabby overall. Med-light body with a smooth texture that hits the mark. Goes down easy, with a decent balance, but pretty bland overall.

Location: I venture into the Rock Bottom Bethesda every now and again because it is so close, this is one of their standard offerings, and I’ve had it a few times on tap

Overall Impression: Another dull beer from Rock Bottom, they make a lot of OK beers. Standard and boring Brown Ale.

Draft. Bethesda location. Mahogony brown beer with a light tan head. Rich malt aroma. Caramel malt flavor with light frutiiness. Medium bodied. Caramel malt lingers with a bit of dark fruit.