Tilburgs Dutch Brown Ale

Bottle in VA: Sweet, dried fruit aroma with a bit of milk chocolate. Pours a translucent brown with a large, creamy head. Very sweet brown ale that somehow manages to be relatively light-bodied, yet pack in complex flavors of raisin and chocolate malt. Very Good. Also it has the strangest bottle I’ve ever seen, and its from Holland. Isn’t that vierd?

From bottle : Nose of chocolate is prominent, with brown sugar and malts. Color is dark brown with red highlights, a half finger offwhite head that goes quickly. Tastes is sweet, a sugary flavor, with a little chololate taste. Medium on the palate, goes smooth.

Bottle in Kaisla, Helsinki. Dark brown with a thick beige head. Raisins, sweet aroma. Taste full raisins and the finish is medium in strength and length. Aftertaste of salmiak.

Poured a brown with red accents. Smells of chocolate, brown sugar and fruit. Taste was a little metallic; besides that flavor was ok. Similar to the flavor.

A Sim rate (on tap at the Flyng Saucer Memphis): Amazing plum aroma. Smells like a Flemish sour only tamer. There’s a hint of strawberry, like a 7-11 Icee. Gorgeous red colour but no head or lacing. It tastes like a sweet and sour version of cherry sour sweets. Delicious!

Bottle. Sour malt and brown sugar aroma. Brown amber with small head. Light brown sugar and malt aroma with a light cardamom finish. Light but enjoyable.

Pours dark copper with good lacing and a quickly dissipating cream colored head. Smells of caramel and brown sugar. Tastes of a mix of medium and dark malts, very smooth but a little thick. No aftertaste which is surprising because the beer is rather full bodied. A fine brown ale on par with the best that i’ve had to date. (If anyone can tell me what the fuck is on the label i’d appreciate it. It looks to me like a birds head with the body of a man with a pot as a headress, eating a woman with birds flying out of her anus while sitting in a chair with it’s feet in some sort of decanting containers...oh and whatever is jutting out between its legs. Freaky deaky Dutch!)

My fantasy football team just won. Give me a beer and make it a Tilburg. This well balanced brown has a savory characteristic with a slight Beligian yeastiness. I did not see this beer in Amsterdam. I wish I would have.