Brooklyn Local 1

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

750 ml bottle, corked caged. Poured a slightly hazy golden peach with a thin, wispy head. Aroma is quite nice, like an overcharged lager: fruity yeast tempered by earthy hops, vanilla sweetness, flowery esters. Pretty creamy body along with grassy hops and bready malts on the palate, finishes only slightly bitter with a long honey finish. Quite a nice surprise.

Pint+9 bottle. Pours a cloudy, golden yellow with a 2 to 3 cm foamy white head. Aroma of yeasty bread and banana. Initial flavor is very sweet with hints of citrus and yeast. Finish is clean and dry and very short lived. Nice lacing, no noticeable carbonation, and alcohol is noted from aroma as it warms through the aftertaste. Kind of thin on the mouthfeel. Very drinkable and better than initially anticipated.

hazy appearance, nice foam, that disappears quickly making it easy to pour, wonderful aroma, a dry finish w/ no after taste, a truly wonderful local brew that rivals any belgian

Bottled. Hazy golden with a thick white foam. Fruity and yeasty aroma of coriander, mandarin, banana and white pepper. Medium bodied with notes of coriander, corn, banana, Seville oanges, yeast and white bread. Lively carbonation. Spicy semi dry finish of coriander, oranges, banana and pepper.

Bottle: Poured a Hazy yellow with lots of head. Aroma was that of yeast. The flavor was sweet with a strong taste of alcohol. Overall, not the best belgium but definately drinkable.

Multiple samples, GABF 2007. Body is medium yellow. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain), lightly hoppy (flowers), with notes of corn, cotton candy, and banana. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Kinda disturbing artificial candy-like aroma starts things on the wrong foot, and the syrupy sweetness in the mouth just doesn’t work either.

750mL Bottle. Aroma blasts with yeast and sordid peppercorns. A bite medicinal for this cowboy, sensitive to the phenols. Floral and spicy is right on. Pours a redolent blazed gold, clouded 60%. Real lacy, soft soap slides down the glass and gracefully rides the beer. In terms of flavor, it’s not too far off from the aroma. The 9% smacks you in the face with scalding flare and then peppers the palate with whole spice. Astrigency bursts in and escorts the dryness down the run way. Malts and sugars edge clean and lemony. Hops grow bold and gummy, complementing the slightly confused run of yeast products. A real yeast-defined beer, which is what one would expect, but I can’t get over the harshess, both in alcohol and parching phenols. Carbonation right on. Overall, this is not as good as it could be.

Upon opening, the aroma is a bit yeasty and reminds me of a white wine. Cloudy, yellow haze with a good lasting head. The brew is a bit sweet with an average finish. Nothing to get too excited about, but a solid brew nonetheless.