Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Brown Ale
Tadcaster, England

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Still as good a Nut Brown Ale as there is. Complex in flavour and genuinely consistant as drinking it for over 25 years.

18.7oz bottle 5/7/13 (Jewel Clearance Rack)-48° in Mug-Pours a medium brown with a small loose tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, and toffee. Taste of the same with some nutty aspects coming thru. This medium bodied brew is pretty darn tasty.

Pours a lighter brown/copper color with initially a large 2 finger fluffy off-white head that had good retention and left a lot of lacing. Huge nutty aroma with roasted malts, caramel, toffee, and a hint of hops. Taste is just as huge as the aroma. Nuts and roasted malts up front with caramel and toffee behind it and a great hop bitterness following. Very robust. I don?t ever recall tasting a nut brown with quite this much flavor. Medium body with a bit of a thin, slick texture and average carbonation. Long finish of malt and nuts. Very enjoyable and extremely drinkable. Quite possibly the biggest tasting nut brown ale out there.

550 ml bottle into imperial pint glass, bottled on 8/21/2012. Pours fairly crystal clear reddish copper color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of big caramel, molasses, raisin, toast, toffee, brown bread, light nuttiness, floral, and toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of malt and moderate fruity notes. Taste of big caramel, molasses, toast, toffee, raisin, brown bread, floral, nuttiness, light roast, and toasted earthiness. No bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, molasses, toast, toffee, raisin, brown bread, floral, nuttiness, light roast, and light earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Fantastic flavor balance and complexity of malt flavors with moderate fruitiness; very robust for 5% with no cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a creamy and fairly slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a highly excellent english brown ale! Great balance and complexity of robust flavors; and very smooth to drink. A highly enjoyable offering.

Sweet carmely aroma and thin soon to disperse head. yeah..it left as I was typing that last sentence. Dark brown color. Nut packed taste with kinda bitter aster taste then back to nutty for a while. Not a bad bitter. In a good way. I’d like a burger now.

Kickin' it old school this evening: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale! Turn back the dial of time 3 decades and the beer store shelves had a fraction of what is out there today, and much of it was lousy until the rise of the craft brewed beers. Buying Samuel Smith's 30 years ago was the sign of a beer drinker that appreciated quality and good flavors, and the same still rings true today. Far above the watery Newcastle Brown Ale in quality, this one is the real deal. This ale belongs in the rightful place, which is an Imperial Pint glass. Important to remember the Brits swill their brews @ basement temperature, so don't be in a hurry to chug this one after pouring it cold form the fridge. Brown, well, how about auburn in appearance with a two finger foamy ecru head that hangs on resulting in a permanent cap that stays until the bottom of the glass with average lacing. The nose is pure British: heavy on the malts, which are roasty, nuts and toffee are hiding in the background and make their play as it warms in the glass. Hops? Don't look for them in the nose and you won't be disappointed (not the case with Timothy Taylor's Landlord strong ale,which has a pronounced hoppiness in the aroma). Nut Brown glides over your palate in a velvety manor,and is rich without being too heavy in the mouthfeel or overall body. Definitely a sipper, the rich flavors are robust and start out with a good deal of malt that fades into some great nutty caramel tones with some slight vanilla extract creaminess. The creaminess is impressive and more apparent as it reaches the designed temperature for consumption. There is a uniqueness to Samuel Smith's because of the slate it is aged in: it results in a different character that cannot be duplicated, and it is the oldest brewery in Yorkshire after all, so these guys are steeped in tradition and you can taste it in the glass. A solid buy as well considering the lengthy process of making it, aging it, and sending it to another continent. Respect for the old school is required here even if it isn't your thing after trying it, which everyone should. My personal favorite was always the Old Brewery Pale Ale, and I will be sure to grab one of those to review on my next trip to the beer store. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Great smelling beer - toffee notes with some dried fruit. Clean tasting beer, very drinkable. Wish there was more of that nose in the palate, but it's still very enjoyable. Pair with beef, burger, steak, chili. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours deep brown, yet translucent. Tan head. Smells of nuts and metal. Taste rich and nutty with metallic notes. Smooth finish.

Smells like roasted nuts tastes like roasted nuts...is brown in color... It doesn't disappoint in that regard... Nut brown... Yes that is simply my accurate comment about this beer.. Pretty smooth ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a clear deep brown with a one finger tan head. Excellent head retention along with some appreciable lacing. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel, and toffee and it is quite nutty. Some dark fruit sneaks in along with a little metal that works well to compliment everything else. The fruityness from the yeast works perfectly with the malt. Lots of dark fruit and toffee in the flavor. Toast and caramel along with enough grassy hops to cut through the roast. Bitterness is moderate to high and works great to counteract the sweetness. Carbonation leans toward the higher side giving this beer a lighter mouthfeel. A slightly sticky finish with lingering bitterness. Overall, this is what an English Brown should taste like. Absolutely blows Newcastle away in terms of flavor, aroma, and mouthfeel. If only this beer was the price of Newcastle it would be a regular staple in my fridge.