Berkshire River Ale

Brewed by Berkshire Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
South Deerfield, Massachusetts USA

Brown/amber color with a thin white cream head. Aroma is sweet and malty. Flavor is sweet, almost too sweet. A cloyingly sweet brown. No thanks.

Ooh, I like this. Dark color. It’s full of maltiness and a good chunk of nutty flavors as well.

Cold 22oz bottle: Pours a clear amber color with a small frothy ivory head and some nice lacing. Aroma is of sharp yeast, sweet malt and hay. Taste is of sweet malt, sharp yeast, pears and earthy hops. Ending is sweet with mild sour notes. Crisp, medium bodied with good carbonation. Light oily texture.

Nice dark brown color with a foamy top. Nice nutty malty flavor with some of the hoppy thrown in. Pretty good beer.

22 oz. bottle. Pours a slightly hazy brown with a thick off-white head that lasted about 5 minutes but produced very nice lacing. Pleasant aroma of caramel and chocolate. The caramel and chocloate came through in the flavor as well along with some maltiness. This beer is a bit on the sweet side, but with a somewhat bitter hops finish. Easy to drink, the alcohol was well hidden.

Got this one up in Manchester Ct, on a reccomendation from DYCsoccer. 22 0z bomber, bottle conditioned. Pours a murky plain brown with a thick off white head and leaves some lace. Aroma is light brown sugar, toffeee, light roasted nuts, caramel malts and a hint of DMS. Sweet body, ligth astringency lightly hopped, nutty and light chocolate malts and wierd hint of herbal/mint bubblegum somehow. Not too complex, but has a decent flavor and doesnt really seem like it is 7%. Seems more like a german alt to me than a brown ale.

(22 oz bottle: Obtained 24-Feb-06 in trade with Eyedrinkale, thanks Mike!) Pours light brown, very cloudy and muddy, somewhat translucent but I can’t see through this at all. Maybe River Ale is just dirty river water? The creamy, off-white head is comprised of tiny bubbles, and though the head settles to a patchy layer fairly quickly, it holds there and leaves significant patchy lacing on the glass. The nose is sweet and fruity, with aromas of ripe banana and brown sugar. Mildly sweet, brown sugary, quite fruity, caramely, only mildly bitter on the tongue, but also boasting plenty of wheat and banana flavor, this is quite the interesting beer here, and certainly more than just a basic brown ale. Medium body from the wheat seems to have a more substantial mouthfeel than it really does. Very gentle carbonation as well, so this is smooth and easy to drink. This beer seems to touch on elements from brown ales to dunkelweizens and part of the appeal for me is the uniqueness of this brew.

(draft) Cloudy amber body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, candi sugar. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, raisin, some candi sugar, light alcohol. Light-medium body.