Breckenridge 471 Small Batch Mighty Brown

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Courtesy of Santa. <!-- P --> Aroma is rich and malty with lots of nutty notes and some mild chocolate aroma. Body is dark brown and holds a thumb thick tan head. Flavor is pretty nice. Solidly a brown ale, but the intensity is upped so that the lightly roasted malts, nuttiness and mild chocolate notes you’d get in your average heavier brown ale are all much more concentrated here. I think this one is getting a bad rap. I thought it was damn nice.

Nice! Dark brown pour with a white head. Nice malty nutty flavor with a very smooth mouthfeel. And the large size bottle is a good value!

This was a great little brown ale. Honey sweet aroma that is almost borderline nutty. Some tasty chocolate notes, along with a malt profile that is reminscent of honey roasted peanut butter, spread over some dark wheat bread, with the smallest bit of fruitiness on the side. Tasty!

Dark brown color with a big brown head. Aroma of malt and nuts. Flavor of nuts, a little chocolate and roast. Creamy body and not much carbonation.

Bottle. Poured a dark brown color with an average frothy brown head that diminished slowly with good lacing. Moderate toasted sweet malt aroma. Medium body with a creamy texture. Medium sweet toasted flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. This beer would go well with spicy food or a good cigar.

Dusky brown body, light crimson and clear at sides and foot, under a creamy-toned cap of 1/4" foam. Aroma is toasty and dry, hints of cocoa and coffee, earthy, rustic, grainy. On the palate:...not...bad...greets the tongue sweetly, then fades, turns crisp and dry, falls into roasted grain and bounces off. A bit flatter than I’d prefer, but fine and drinkable, nonetheless. Medium bodied, tasty, neat, roasty finish.

Bottle: Dark brown pour, small fizzy tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, some bread, a little nutty. Flavors are similar. Nothing much going on. I drank it out of a new castle glass, and that seems pretty appropriate. I’ll second the "meh".

22oz. bottle. Aroma of bready, roasty, sweet malts, plenty of caramel, brown sugar and nuttiness with some very light cocoa in the background. Deep, dark brown in color, clear and filtered with a thin, tan head. Flavor is likewise sugary, roasty and malty, more dark bread along with a faint coffee and milk chocoalte character, blending at the finish with a burst of spicy alcohol and virtually undetectable hop presence (21 IBUs for such a malty beer tends to bury them, it seems). Palate is fairly thin and watery, body is medium-full. This gets a resounding "meh" from me, also.