Shipyard Brewers Choice Special Ale Brown Ale (05-06, 09-)

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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(12oz bottle) Pours a clear brown body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of cocoa, roasted malt, caramel, and brown sugar. Flavor of roasted malt, cocoa, and nuts.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with small beige head. The aroma is vanilla and oak. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet malt and caramel. Easy to drink a good brown ale from Shipyard.

Soft and fresh aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Taste is round and slightly sweet of roasted malt, a bit toffee-ish in tone, with great bitterness. Nice, but I find it a little too sweet in the aftertaste.

Shipyard Brewer’s Brown Ale is a very clear, solid brown ale with a thin khaki head that quickly fades to a thin film and leaves decent lacing on the glass. It has a sweet aroma, like caramel mostly. There may be a hint of nuttiness and a hint of coffee, but it’s mostly caramel. It’s medium-light bodied and lively. The finish is dry and pretty crisp. It leaves the mouth with a slightly astringent feel. It doesn’t taste sweet like it smells. It’s pretty malty with a touch of coffee and perhaps nuttiness. There’s a fair amount of leafy green bitterness. Chocolate and alcohol are in the aftertaste. This is a solid American brown ale. I just noticed the blue star on the orange background on the label. Is that supposed to make me think of Newcastle? Because, I prefer this to Newcastle, I think.

Pale amber with a Medium off-white head. Malty with fruity tones. High carbonation, malt and bitterness. Medium body with a long bitter finish.

12 ounce bottle - $1.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia. Appearance: Pours out a clear, rich mahogany-hued body with a tall, proud, though deflating light beige head. Smell: Aroma smelling of roasted barley, toasted bread, a little chocolate and caramel hiding a naughty pat of butter, and cherry nut squares from the fair amount of fruit esters. Taste: A nice showing of dark bready barley, sweet chocolate, lightly roasted nuts, and crunchy dark caramel. Medium sweetness. Slight dark cherry fruitiness going on, though moreso as it warms. The coffee-ish roasty accent reassures itself as the herbal, earthy English hops perk up with a modest amount of overall bitterness. Mild diacetyl. Slight trace of smokiness. Predominately a dry maltiness on the finish with a final kick of ripe fruit. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Notably smooth mouthfeel that rolls across the tongue in a lush manner. Overall: Enjoyed this one. BBA does a very good job at just being a simple brown ale.

(draft @ Tap and Mallet - Rochester, NY) Dark but clear brown with a thick tan head. Slightly nutty and malty aroma with some caramel and toffee hints. Flavor is a bit mild but nice tasting. Smooth and sweet caramel malts with a nutty and slightly dry finish. A bit watery.

Bottle, best before 8/11.. Aroma is faintly of molassas. Appearance is ruby with a thin off white head. This is one of my favorites. Taste has nutty and coffee with a faint hop finish

(Bottle) Reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, toasty nose with notes of dark bread, chocolate, burnt sugar, dried fruit and hints of coffee. Malty, toasty taste with dark rye bread, chocolate, brown sugar, some coffee, caramel and a spicy finish with a hint of bitter almonds. Medium body, with a slight sweetness. Slightly harsh and not really in perfect balance. Still tasty and drinkable.

Bottle. Amber colour with a be3ige head. Aroma is malt, caramel. Flavour is caramel, hop, roasted, malt. Medium to full body. Nice beer.