Brooklyn Manhattan Project

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Brooklyn, New York USA

On tap at Tyler’s in Durham. Pours copper/reddish with big beige head. Nose of dry vermouth, some wood, and lots of rye. Even more rye on the taste. Vanilla and some butterscotch as well. Would be better if a bit more dry and bitter. As it is, the sweetness overwhelms. Still, quite good.

2009 Bottle - Thanks goryscheywch! - Pours a hazy brown with a large beige head...aroma is floral herbs and spicy oak, sweet and sour...flavour is similar, whiskey oak, pit fruit, some bready yeast and an underlying fruity sweet/sour thing that I really dug...Really enjoyed it!

On draft at RFD in Chinatown, DC. Pours a hazy orange with a nice head. Taste is rye with very obviously barrel aging, but in Vermouth barrels? Definitely points for something new. This is one of those beers you drink once, loved it, and never want to drink again.

Pours a very dark amber/chestnut brown color with dark golden ruby edges when held to a light source and a frothy 2.5 finger head that slowly fizzles down into a lasting cap and ring. Minimal spots of lacing. Nice autumnal spicy nose with a bit of toasty biscuit malt, rye and subtle hops. The spice character dominates up front with lots of cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg, clove and even a hint of vanilla and pumpkin spice. Subtle chocolate and caramel malt. Sweet malty medium body with hints of autumnal spice notes that linger throughout. Silky and easy to drink with no alcohol warmth. ABV very well masked. Lots of sweet rye malt and estery dark fruit notes, especially raisin, plum, date, fig and grape. Slightly vinous with spicy cinnamon, clove, brown sugar, ginger, vanilla and nutmeg. The pumpkin notes from the aroma are missing. Slightly syrupy and medicinal, being a bit too sweet with a subtle dry finish. Pretty drinkable.

On tap at Barley’s, Asheville. Odd but nice aroma - Rye, of course, but also gingerbread and bourbon. Flavor is similiar to the aroma, but with more rye. Very smooth and flavorful, though.

On tap at Brass Tap in Wesley Chapel, FL. Pours clear amber with copper edges and firm tall tan head. The aroma is very malty and sugary sweet with spiciness and rye swirling around. The taste begins sweet and creamy becoming very very full with rye, spices and a solid sweet wheat like sensation. Full force flavor here. I wonder how it will age. I’m guessing it will be yum.

Quite an unusual and exotic, yet somehow familiar, invention. August maroon in color with a ring of cream. Sour cherry and aged-wood aromas ooze from the glass. Muted cherry flavor morphs into a palate of mystery. Wood-aged sourness, with a long-island iced tea finish. Restrained phenolics further dizzy the senses.

Sample at Buckeye Beer Engine. Pours cloudy brown with a medium beige head. Bready malt aroma with caramel notes. Caramel and bready malt flavor with some sweet cherry character.