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Samuel Adams Brown Ale

Samuel Adams Brown Ale - Brown Ale

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 Percentile 
49
overall
Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Brown Ale

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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7103.03/5.03.03/5.0Special5.35%45.8Dimpled mug
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Commercial Description:
The Brown Ale is a traditional beer related to the first beers ever brewed commercially. Brewed with an interesting blend of malts, including pale two-row Harrington, Metcalfe, and Maris Otter malt, Caramel, Munich, and roasted Carafa malts, the Brown Ale shines with a deep mahogany luster. The malt flavor is complex and deep as well, with notes of biscuit, nut, and caramel. With moderate hop bitterness, a deep malt body, and a fruity ale fermentation character, the Samuel Adams Brown Ale satisfies the soul and doesn’t overwhelm the tongue.
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 beerguy101 (3861), Newark, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Oct 8, 2009  
Sampled on 10/8/2009. This brown ale pours a deep brown color from a 12 oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head, with decent retention and nice lacing. The aroma is caramel, fruity and sweet, touch of chocolate. A medium bodied brown ale. The malts are caramel and nutty. The hops are lightly earthy. Nice balance. Good carbonation. Hints of chocolate and toasty bread, Some nuttiness at the finish. Very nice. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.


smart001 (44), Scott AFB, Illinois, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/510/20
Oct 1, 2009  
[12 oz in bottle] pours nice and dark, light tan head. There is a taste in this beer that makes it not so great, I do not know what it is. I probably will not drink it again. Sorry for the useless rating.


 BeerBunker (607), Burbank, Illinois, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Sep 21, 2009  
12oz bottle. Pours copper with a tan head. Aroma is of toasted malt, grass, and chocolate. Nothing amazing in the aroma. Taste is of toasted malt, brown sugar, grass, slight chocolate, and weak hops. Mouthfeel is light, fizzy, and carbonated. Taste is weak as well. Nothing all that amazing.


 kiefdog (1567), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/511/20
Sep 21, 2009  
12oz bottle from Total Wine (Tampa, FL). Pours a cola brown with thin tan head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of chocolate, caramel, nuts, light spice. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of light nuttiness, chocolate, caramel, light toffee and spice. Generally medium body with a pleasing malty finish.


tennessejed420 (69), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/513/20
Sep 20, 2009  
12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark brown with a quickly vanishing tan-white head. Sweet malty aroma, almost smells like bubblegum. Tastes like earthy brown malt with sweet bubblegum aftertaste. Very slightly watery for my taste. A decent brown, but nothing too impressive.


 FunkyBrewster (437), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 20, 2009  
Pours a reddish brown with a small off white froth. Aroma is all malty and candyish sweet, kind of that circus peanut aroma. Maybe just a bit of nuttiness and a slight metallic note. Flavor starts with a big sweet character and almost has a weird smokiness. The flavor gets a bit better as it gains a creamy nuttiness but falls flat in the finish with a sharp metallic note. Medium body and a sharp carbonation. Not a very good brown.


superdude1979 (60), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/510/103/517/20
Sep 19, 2009  
Pours dark brown. Initially the burt malt comes through, but the beer finishes smooth with a nice caramal flavour. Not too sweet.


 yemenmocha (344), Glendale, Arizona, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/104/511/20
Sep 18, 2009  
Beautiful appearance - chestnut brown, no haze, light tan head that retains well. Good stuff. Nose is modest & light with baked brownbread and light caramel. The caramel comes through on the palate as well, with more of the bready component that was noted in the nose. Finish is medium and somewhat sweet. Easy drinking.



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