Brooklyn Local 1

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

Pours a slightly hazy gold color with nice layer off frothy white head. Aroma is sweet fruits, flowers, and spicey yeast. Flavor is peary, cidery, with nice doughy malt base and a spicey finish. Kinda tickles your tongue a bit in the finish. Overall, enjoyable, but not great.

Oh wow this was lovely. Bright golden straw color with a thick foamy white head. Big yeasty notes of banana, cloves, and oranges wafting out of the glass. A very smooth body with spicy notes and delicious yeasty skunkiness. An incredible beverage, by far the best I’ve ever sampled from Brooklyn.

Bottle. Pours a clear light gold with a little white head. Sweet, floral aroma with fruit, wheat. Flavor has more spice than the nose indicated and more alcohol, too. Also bread, hops, and lemon. Good balance for so many flavors. Medium body, smooth, and a bit creamy. Finishes dry as the citrus rests on the insides of the cheeks. Strong effort, though I do enjoy the Local 2 a bit more.

White gold. See through. Head dissipates like so much champagne. Pale dull and not all that impressive to look at. Like a pilsner on steroids in the aroma. Spicy Belgian ale flavors. Incredibly flowery and fragrant. Perfume and hallertauerish hops. Flowery and perfumey. Flowery, piney hops. Belgian spices and a wheaty base. The hops and spice are a symphony of flowery flavors. Crystally; malt-base non-existant. Fizzy and medium bodied. Heavy, fizzy, perfumey and flowery. Bursting wild estery flavors; no malt base to speak of.

Wish I had taken notes. Tasted after drinking some Unibroue so my memory is fuzzy... Similar to Seigneuriale by Unibroue but slightly warmer going down, the alcohol is hidden until you feel it traveling down your throat.

Presentation: It was poured from a 1 pint, 9.4oc brown corked and caged bottle into a tulip glass. The number 0719 is printed on the back label. I am not sure if that is a bottle number, batch number or a date. Appearance: The pour produced an average sized (two finger thick) head with a creamy off white color. The head slowly fades down to small ring of slick lace. Underneath the head is a light golden honey colored liquid with a hazy appearance and streams of tiny bubbles rushing to the surface. Smell: The aroma is full of fruity, estery yeast, sweet malts and some light, funky phenolic notes. Taste/Mouth: Up front it has candy like sweetness with light tropical fruit notes, some pear, apple, and light malt as well as some funky phenolic notes. In the middle it starts to dry a little and we add some mild warming alcohol and mild spicy/leafy hops to its malty character. It finishes much dryer than it started but still with some residual sweetness mixed into mild hop notes. The palate is full and lively with plenty of carbonation. Notes: Overall good appearance, flavor and a fun lively palate make this an enjoyable beverage.

Pours a lacing. white head and a slightly hazy straw color body. Smells of yeast and bubblegum. Flavor is the same. Finish is earthy and dry.