Tenaya Creek Calico Brown Ale

Brewed by Tenaya Creek Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Poured on tap at Brix in Sunset Beach. The beer has a nice brown color with a medium head. Aroma has some nuts and light coffee notes. Flavor is very nutty which I personally enjoy. There is also some roasted malts, more coffee and a touch of spice. One of the better browns I’ve had.

Deep copper pour with foamy off white head and lace. Aroma is light chocolate, roasty malt, and some earthy. Light chocolate, flat sour, and a flat dry finish. Medium bitter and some earthy tones. Medium bodied. Ok beer

Provisional rating : This thing turned into a geyser on me and lost 1/4 of the 22oz bottle’s contents. Obvious signs of over-carbonation, but not detecting sour or infected elements otherwise. Besides the obvious drawl backs, nice and malty--as a good brown ale should be! I will need to re-rate this one eventually if I come across another bottle. In general, I like Tenaya, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt with this one.

650ml brown bottle. Caramel brown pour with a bit of haze and a beige head that fades to a creamy ring. Nose has nutty notes, caramel. Taste has nutty malt, grain, light toastiness, caramel, slight chocolate. Finish has a bit of caramel, nuts, graininess and very light hop bitterness. Average body and carbonation. Pretty good brown ale, an easy drinker.

Bomber bought in Vegas. Nose is caramel, pecans, and some roast. Clear cherry brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is nutty caramel with slight contrasting bitter and sweetness

Pours a hazy light brown colour with a small mocha ring pf foam around the glass. Aroma is sweet malts, caramel, chocolate, and nutty. Flavour is sweet maltiness, chocolate, caramel, toffee, toast, mild bitterness with a mildly dry finish.

Pours a clear light brown color with a light brown head and lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, nuts and some faint sweet dried fruit. Taste is chocolate, nuts, biscuit a d a bit of hop flavor and bitterness on the finish. Excellent sessionable brown ale.

Poured a translucent mid-brown colour with a very thin off white bubble head. No lacing. Moderate carbonation. Aroma of nuts, sweet malt and slight roasted grain. Taste initially of chocolate and weak sweet coffee fading to nothingness. Light body. Short smooth and soft finish. Quite drinkable.

Bottle. Medium-to-dark brown, beige head. Aroma and flavour are predominantly chocolate, with some bready malty notes underneath. Lightly hoppy finish. A pleasant, sessionable brown ale. Very satisfying.

Aroma is toasty malt. Pours a clear deep amber/ brown with, in my case, no head or lacing. Taste is similar to the nose - tasted malts up front with a not much taste on the backside. Medium bodied with minimal carbonation. Overall, a nice tasting brown ale. Not a home run, but certainly drinkable.