Shipyard Brown Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

Nice beer with an aroma of nuts,fruit, and,caramel. Malty flavor with caramel,fruit,and maply syrup. Nice beer.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Pours a clear dark amber with a beige head. Toffeeish nose, some butterscotch and minerals. Medium body, again lots of toffee and caramel. Lightly roasted malt in the nose. 301011

Bottle at Nya Tröls. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Fruity aroma of caramel and nuts with notes of butter. Fruity flavour of caramel and hops with notes of hops. Sweet and hoppy finish.

This was an everyday beer for me. It certainly better than most widely available beers, but I have also had better brown ales. It has a medium body, medium body, creamy, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium sourness, brown.

Bottle 12fl.oz.

Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, malt extract - maple. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, malt extract, burnt malt - sugar - caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110917]

Draft, caramel, copper colored pour. Lighter aroma of sweet malts, watery flavor, needs a more pronounced malt presence. Light flavor and aroma. Drinkable

12oz bottle pours dark brown with amber hues and thin light tan head. The aroma offers up prunes and dates as well as some malts, some crystal malts and maybe nuttiness too. The taste has some roasted malts, spicy maple and spicy to earthy hop notes to start. It gets slightly roasty with malts into the finish. It ends with lingering anise like spiciness, spicy hops and earthy hops. Pretty hop forward brown.

Brown with a medium tan head. Malty and fruity. malt, fruit and coffee. Medium body with a bittersweet finish.