Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Brown Ale
Tadcaster, England

I got this one when I was riding home on my bike last week, I stopped half way and popped this open....A great ale. An aroma of toffee and hops. Appearance is a clear dark brown amber color. Taste is a bit nutty, but mostly toffee and hops. Full bodied flavor and palate. This beer is like a meal. what a great pause to the communute home.

55cl bottle. Chestnut brown with a big beige head commanding the glass. A round nutty malt presence on the nose, some tea and bread. Malt dominates in the first with demerara sugar, dried fruit, biscuit and bread notes with a boiled (sweet) sweetness. This sweetness finishes with a herbal hop and roasty bitterness on and after the swallow. Dry, bitter and nutty aftertate. Medium body and carbonation - starts a bit aggressive but soon settles.

50 cl bottle. Clear amber brown body with medium size tan head. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruits and nuts.

light brown with a big fat head. nutty yet fruity (good balance). like the review below me, slighty sweet and a very modest amount of hops which pairs nicely with the overall flavor and taste. no aftertaste of anything that makes you lick your lips and say "what was that". my only complaint with this one like some other sam smiths is that it tastes a bit watered down and could be more flavorfull, like theyre holding a little back. good brew though.

clear dark amber, fine small light brown smooth head. dry caramel aroma, faint hops, faint nuts. delicate. flavor is only slightly sweet, caramel, nuts, somewhat dry, mild very tasty hops. a delciate beer, lots of flavor, but not very strong ones. i like it a lot.

One of the better nut browns out there by a brewery that has established itself as very good.

Pours a nice amber brown color, clear with a big billowy tan head, one does not always see a billowy tan head so often, so that’s cool I suppose. The smell that came while I was pouring was particularly bad very chemical and weird. This is not fully redeemed as it sits in the glass, immediately there is a character of green apple dominating the aroma somewhat muting the nice subtleties of the nutty malt character and the wood and the sweet malt. I can tell it should smell good, but the aroma falls a little flat on this one from me. The flavor is particularly better, leaving behind those apples and expressing the malt very nicely. This is a hair sweet but has plenty of the promised strong nuttiness, I really (for whatever reason) expected the nuttiness to be contrived here but it blends naturally into the beer with complimentary flavors of oakiness, some plum and some light whiskey. Like I said it seems a tad sweet, but it’s generally fairly balanced. Tasty indeed. Palate is a shade watery, but not to too much of a fault.

Pours a dark copper with a good solid frothy light brown head. Aromas of caramel, hazelnuts, whiskey, wood, cane sugar, touch of hops, and vanilla. Flavor is somewhat light but complex. It has some caramel, hazelnuts that play in balance with the hops and over power them. Lighter notes of wood, and some whiskey but not in an alcohol sort a way. Clean, slightly bitter, watery and sweet. A tasty brown in any case.