Bold City Duke’s Cold Nose Brown Ale

Brewed by Bold City Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Jacksonville, Florida USA

From the tap poured brown with a fair amount of head. Nice malty flavor with a slightly bitter finish.

on tap-pours a off white head and amber color. Aroma is sweet caramel/nutty-medium malt, slight earthy hops. Taste is sweet caramel/nutty-medium malt, slight earthy hops. Cask has a predominance of cocoa powder.

On tap at Bold City. It poured copper with lasting off white head. The aroma is modest in strength with a dash of roast and malt to go along with some nuttiness and a sense of burnt malts. The taste has layers of malts, roast and burnt malts to start then heading into some solid malt sweetened nuttiness. There’s a layer of mild pine like hop bitterness persisting throughout the flavor profile.

Aroma is nice if you can find it, very light. Color and head are also a little on the light side. Flavor leaves a little to be desire. Palate is clean, you could drink a lot of these. For overall, this is not there deepest beer but it is the beer you could get for a non- beer obsessed crew. Very drinkable, very light, kinda tasty. Be bold.

Growler. Pours a clear reddish-copper color with a tall head of khaki colored foam. Diminishing quickly, the foam leaves wet, spotty lacing on the glass. The aroma shows grainy malt and notes of caramel, with a touch of nutty roast and some mild, earthen hops. Flavors follow suit, toasty and caramelized, quite grainy overall, lacking in depth. It’s a little boozy for a relatively small beer. The palate is relatively light bodied, thin and warm. Eh, not very good.

Tap@ the brewery. Pours orange/amber, white head. Aroma, hoppy, hints of fruits, with some caramel malts. Flavor, some roasted malts, hint sof grains, malty finish with some caramel and chocolate. Finish is lightly bitter.

On tap @ Bold City. Amber color. Light malt aroma. Flavor of sweet malts. Well balanced. Crisp hop. It’s just too light in color and flavor. 25 July 09

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear, deep amber with a thin, tan head that has no retention and no lacing. Aroma of apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, chocolate malt, roasted chestnut. Taste is rather sweet with caramel, milk chocolate, roasted nuts. Sort of watery on the palate. A little fizzy. Works as an amber ale but not really a brown. And their "red" would work well as a brown.....hmmmm.