BridgePort BeerTown Brown

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Brown Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

The bottle poured clear iced tea color with slight ruby tones and half an inch of tan foam. Aroma mostly of caramelized malts and slight toasty notes of chocolate. The flavor is a bit sweet and sour with mild toasty bitterness and a fairly light body. One of the better browns I’ve had.

Draft. Pours a dark amber with a brown hue. Dense creamy off-white head. Some lacing. Aroma of toffee and biscuit malt. Taste of light caramel and burnt toast. Not much hop character. Finish is too balanced as nothing really stands out.

1st Brewery 07-08 Beer Road Trip with Bikesandbeer, 12/30/07 @ The Brewpub. Pours dark amber with a bright white head. Nose of light malt. Taste ain’t so hot. This was really pretty poor.

12 oz. bottle--Poured a faint brown and thin body with a tiny off-white head. Nose of stale malts and caramel. This beer plays more like a homebrew than anything else. Not very good.

12oz bottle. Poured a medium and clear brown color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of toasted nuts and caramel. Tastes of basically the same.

Thanks to hopdog. Pour a translucent brown with lots of amber notes and a smaller bubbly off white head. Aroma of malty sweetness, some nuts and some caramel notes. Flavor of malty sweetness, bread, nuts, light hop citrus notes.

20-May-07 (12 oz bottle: Purchased 14-Mar-07 for $1.30 at Liquid Solutions in Tigard, OR) Nothing too fancy here, Beer Town Brown is not a rich, chocolaty brown ale, but instead delivers a moderately sweet and restrained nutty malt flavor. It is balanced by a gentle, floral hoppiness and offers light roastiness and a fair amount of perfume in the finish -- not the kind of aftertaste I want to linger. The toasty, nutty aroma is pleasant enough, but the floral hops are more subtle than in the flavor, but since I don’t tend to like floral, perfumy hops, I find the malt-forward aroma more suited to me. Soft, smooth mouthfeel with soft dustiness, gentle carbonation and no harshness or bitterness. Ruddy brown in color with good clarity, capped by a small, light-tan head that gradually settles to a wide ring. Overall, this is a pleasant, no-frills brown ale, about what you’d expect out of this

Poured a lightly hazed brown copper color with a small beige head. The aroma was of caramel, toffee, plum and fruits. The malty flavor was full of caramel and toffee with a fruity middle and toffee finish. Semi-dry finish. Mildly bitter and fruity on the tail. Light to medium body.