Beer Works Beantown Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Beer Works
Style: Brown Ale
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Name: Beanpot Brown
Date: 02/08/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub, Fenway

clear dark copper, wispy beige head, touch of lace, light sweet malt aroma, sweet caramel malt flavor, light balancing bitterness, touch of chocolate, finishes with the sweet caramel, tasty but not a brown and no beans

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4
-------- /> Date: 02/08/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub, Fenway

clear dark red, fine beige head, touch of lace, sweet nutty chocolate aroma, rich dry chocolate flavor, nice nutty character, light balancing hops lead to a nice bitter finish, it’s all about the rich chocolate

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **+/4

(Draught) Pours a mahogany body with a medium creamy tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, and coffee. Flavor chocolate, roasted malt, and caramel.

on tap-pours a thick creamy retaining tan head and ruby red color. Aroma is chocolate/coffee with a sharpness-dark malt. Taste is chocolate/coffee with a sharpness-dark malt, acidic. Minimum carbonation.

Tap@Beer Works , Boston, Ma. Not bad for a Brown Ale. Some blackberry and redberry fruit. Caramel, toffee flavours, a little bit tart. Good for the style i think.

A dark brown ale with a thin light moka head. Light nutty malt aroma, a bit of fusel alcohol and burned wood. In mouth, a good burned roasted malt, very nutty, maybe of bit of autolyzed yeast off flavours. On tap at BBW, Logan airport, July 19 2009.

Draught pint at BW Fenway on 5/12/07
Should be noted that this is a slightly lower gravity version (during the Red Sox season, the beers have a higher proportion of water). With that in mind, I was a bit hesitant to try some of these low gravity dark beers, which can really suffer from wateriness/lack of malt richness. And honestly, I think I could detect a fair bit of wateriness present, but I’m quite sure the actual beer aspect was delicious. Some nuttiness, nips of roast and sticky caramel with light bakers chocolate hints on the finish. Fairly low carbonation, with a very high attenuation and low hopping rate. No alcohol noted. Large, light-tan head is impressive, as is the retention and rings of lace left down the glass. Very sessionable stuff and quite flawless to-boot. Little bit of beaniness/nuttiness carries through from the chocolate malt and seems to expose itself too much so. Some more base malt would help cover it up, but it’s understandable, given the fact that they are purposely watering it down.

Tap at Fenway location. Pours a deep dark brown with a decent head and some lace. Aroma is light coffee, nutty chocolate and some light solvent. More dark chocolate in the flavor, toasted malts, nutty, light pineyness, caramel malts, and a thin body and weak aftertaste.

On tap at the Salem location billed as the "Derby St. Nut Brown Ale". Porus a translucent ruby red amber with a medium creamy/bubbly light tan lacing head. Aroma of light roasted malts, caramel, some chocolate and coffee. Lighter than the flavor. Flavor of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, with hints of some hop flavor and bitterness.