Brooklyn Local 1

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

Bought at Whole Foods. A cloudy, well carbonated golden brew. Light golden hued head is big and starts with a volcano effect and dissipates in big bubbles. Aroma is both sweet and tart fruit with sugar and yeast. Flavor offers more malt than the aroma would suggest. It is also funky. Complex well ripe fruit flavors. Throw in some butter. The fruit profile increases with temperature offering more lemon, orange, and coriander spice. Feel is quite effervescent, even a champagne palate. Even with the alcohol this was enjoyed on a hot summer day. And it got better as it warmed.

Bottle, 75cl corked. Shared by the head brewer. It pours a hazy, yellow-golden body under a quite small off-white head. Citrus, mostly orange, pale malts, a whiff of alcohol and a lovely hop-profile in the aroma. There’s some sweetness in the mouth, with pale malts, some alcohol warmth, citrus (again, mostly orange) and a nice hoppy bitterness that lasts for a long time. Dry mouthfeel with appropriate warmth. A wonderful ale, easy to drink, tasteful and sort of quenching. (090515)

bottle, pours a hazy golden blond with a tall frothy white head. Strong grassy aroma mixed with hay, light malt, and some hops. Belgian yeast is also aparent in the nose. Tasty lemon grass and light toasted malt body that fades to a bittersweet finish where yeast and light hop bitterness linger for a minute. This is solid!

Bottle from Wegman’s in Princeton. Really yeasty, perfumy aroma with pale malt, light fruits, and spices. Flavor is lots of yeast, floral hops, pale malt, green apple, and spices. Sort of a tripel meets a saison meets a strong Belgian golden ale. Lively palate. Very well done.

Bottle. Cork blew off when I took the cage off, so watch out. Pours clean golden with fluffy white head. Light palate, a bit syrupy. Aroma is a bit of fruit but a lot of yeast, with some alcohol. First impression is a lot of apple. Clean finish. The yeast provides the real flavor, unfortunately its all sitting at the bottom. Good beer overall.

6/14/09 - Bottle # 3,658: Aroma: Hints of orange, smells like this beer has a large malt bill Appearance: Lovely golden yellow with a red copper tint with a fluffy one inch head Flavor: Hints of bavarian hops, the strength of the malt is noticable but well balanced, notes of wheat, slight alcohol presence in finish Palate: Reminiscent of a belgian ale, smooth and viscous Overall Imperssion: Reminiscent of a belgian ale, however not quite as refined. That being said, I’m impressed by the skill of Garrett Oliver.

"(bottle #1657) Pale cloudy straw with a massive off white fluffy cap, the retention is phenomenal I’ve been waiting for ten min to drink this but I can’t the cap aint shrinking. Sour yeasty wheat some lemon, floral notes, and some alcohol all and all not to bad smelling and kind of complex I liked it. Flavour seems milder then the aroma, spicy notes come through in the finish. Wheaty malt with lemon highlights the alcohol shows up mildly in the finish. More enjoyable then I thought it would be but not as good as the Belgian masters. As a final note this is one of those beers where none of the overall scores for smell and flavour are that high but it seems to me more then the sum of its parts, I really enjoy it. "

Aroma:Floral and citrus... Appearance:hazy gold,light head.. Flavor:Floral citrus....