Brooklyn Blue Apron Ale

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Belgian Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

Bottle at Bouchon Bakery. Deep brown beer with a thick pillowy tan head. Aroma is quite lovely. Rich plummy malts with a lightly bready/toasty back note and a kiss of light spiciness. Like the Local 2, the beer has a lot of nice malty components while still coming out quite dry. Lightly dusty on the back of the palate with a softly earthy cocoaish note. Light chocolate and toast nuts. There is also a nice hint of cobwebby/flinty minerality that I find quite appealing. Great balance and really a top-notch brew.

Thanks Patrick for this one! Brown in color, not much of an aroma. First sip tastes like belgian brown but finishes very dry with roasty, choc. malt. Crisp finish with no aftertaste. Very enjoyable, surely would be excellent with many foods. If this WILL be the Local 2, I will be buying many!

750ml. bottle thanks to Pat. Dark brown with a small beige head that looks just like a glass of Coke. Aroma is somewhat mild, with some roasted malts, light chocolate and bread. Flavor was not muted at all. Really nice pumpernickel bread flavor, brown sugar, touch of coriander and a hint of chocolate. Very dry, crisp and delicious. I hope they make this part of their regular lineup and it went great with food and goes down so easy.

750mL bottle, no date--picked up at Bottle Barn for $8.49. Was surprised and excited to see this--apparently its seeing mass distribution now. The cork came out with a substantial pop, but (hooray) no overflowing. Clear deep dark copper with a two finger beige head, fair retention. Seems pretty carbonated as with agitation the head rises to a couple fingers rather quickly. Belgian yeast and ripe bananas up front and unsweetened cocoa, with some not-so-sweet fig and raisin notes. Dark candi sugar and scorched caramel are faint, but present. The flavor adds a slight fruity tang, and again isn’t too sweet at all, and dries out by the finish. Bitterness is around a 2. High carbonation is lessened by constant swirling amid a medium body. Pretty tasty brew.

Bottle from Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa. Dark brown ruby color with a frothy beige head. Aroma is mixed chocolate/caramel. Medium plus body with really frothy carbonation. Flavor is pretty much chocolate. Oh there’s caramel and strange spicey stuff, and hop notes, but it’s up front chocolate. Not sayin it’s the best ever, but it’s really good!

Bottle shared by Jimmack. Pours a nice slightly hazy amber-brosn with a high belgian carbonation and a nice fluffy off white head. Aroma is nutty belgian yeasty phenolic with spice- herbs and earthy dirty character. Goof nutty earthy maltiness, with phenolic and fruity belgian yeast some dark toasted and charred malts, almsot chocolate character with a nice herbal dry earthy finish- smooth doughy and light finish.

Date: November 20, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: cloudy dark brown, fine beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet and fruity aroma, chocolate, lots of licorice, light spicyness
Flavor: sweet fruity flavor, lots of esters, light balancing spicyness, rich chocolate adds complexity
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

Bottle at French Laundry. Paired head to head with a Borolo for a pork belly with avocado mouse and lots of truffles. Brownish beer with a nice tan head. yeasty, malty, light spice aroma. yeasty, malty, light roast flavor. Medium body. LIngering light roast, caramel, light spice. The beer did better cutting through the richness of the pork belly, but the wine was the better sipper on its own that night which was pretty much the gareement of all 10 of us at the table.