Brooklyn Brown Ale

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

Dark brown colour with creamy beige head.Taste of caramel and rosted nuts,it has a note of fruitsand a well balanced finish.

From bottle : Pours a very dark brown, boarderline black, with a finger of offwhite head. Hops are the first thing that i get a whiff of, along with a little bit of chocolate, and some fruit. Palate is medium bodied. Flavor is malty in the beginning then quickly turns to hops, a little bit of roastedness in the ending. Not very brown ale-ey for me, doesnt have enough of the familiar roastedness and chocolate.

A very malty brew. The hops and the esters combine to produce and clean, crisp brew with a creamy palate. At its usual price, it’s a very good deal.

12oz. bottle - pours very dark brown. Looks almost black sitting on a table, but is a deep and rich brown when it catches the light. Medium mocha head that leaves web-like lacing in the glass. Chocolate, nuts and dark fruit in the aroma with some easily detectable hoppiness. Flavour is sweet and malty with hops coming forward in the finish with brown sugar and fruit dominate, with a mild bitter roastiness in the long finish. Aftertaste of earthy hops. Quite nice. Very drinkable and smooth in the mouth.

12 Oz Bottle. Bland brown sugar and maltose aroma. Bits of Nutella and creamed chocolate sauce. Pours a flaccid, ruddy brown. Thin rim in off-white. Flavor is surprisingly even less interesting than the aroma. Plain sugars, light ester, bits of hop. Seemingly overattenuated, leaving no room for nut or chocolate to play on a bed of good sugars or whistling alcohols. Dry with an herbal hop smack, extremely faint. This is a really boring beer. Yeah, it’s clean, yeah, it’s dry, but yeah, it’s totally forgettable.

12 oz bottle. Pours dark brown, darker than most brown ales. Smells sweet and fruity... cherries, raisins. Taste is mild sweetness with a strange, slightly dry/watery finish. Not really typical of the style, a little mild for my liking, but good.

12oz best by November 07. Pours a very dark red, only translucent when held up to the light, with a small and quickly fading head. Aroma is raisins and cream. Smells more Belgiany than a typical brown ale with the dark fruits being the predominate aroma. Quite pleasant really. Taste is dry and malty, dark fruits, with a touch of coffee in the finish. Good.

On tap at Brooklyn brew pub in the Newark airport. Pours out dark brown with minimal head. Hoppy malty aroma that gains more hop strength as it warms up (I hate getting ice cold beer mugs!) Nice smooth taste that becomes much more hoppier as it warms. This is like a cross between an IPA and a brown ale. Of all the Brooklyn beers I have had, i like this the best.