Buckerfields Appleton Brown Ale

Brewed by Swans Hotel - Buckerfield Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Victoria, Canada

Tap. Light roasted aroma. Hazy brown. creamy lacing brown head. Chocolaty, paper, light metallic flavor. Light body, creamy mouthfeel. Quick finish.

Fading off-white ring covers the clear deep brown pour. Irony roasted malts dominate the nose that takes its substance mostly from malt. Tin, dryish toasted caramel, short finish hinting at shy hop derived leafiness. A rather minimalist example, dry yet malty and ultimately feeling thin and not worth a whole lot of attention.

650 ml bottle. Brown amber colour with a mostly diminishing creamy tan head. Chocolate, light cinnamon, light caramel aroma. Chocolate, caramel, light cinnamon flavours. Light to medium bodied.

Bottle. Dark brown body, with a small off white head. Mildly spicey nutmeg/nutty aroma. Sweet malt with nutty notes, flavour has just enough bitter hops to to make it interesting. Average palate. Pleasant but unexceptional.

Chestnut body beneath a small tan head. Notes of hazelnuts, maple syrup, Whoppers, and alcohol. Light bodied, thin. The flavor was rather washed out. Not a very good brew.

Hazy dark brown colour. Straightforward malty/hazelnutty aroma. Strange body - both full and thin, like you’d find in a nitro beer, but this was a firkin. I guess both have low carbo. No worries though, I’ll be at the brewery next month. The flavour is mainly about carastany malts and a light nuttiness. Doesn’t appear anything wrong with the beer, but a standard brown ale is just so uninspiring for me.

Cask at the brewery
Dark orange, which is a light color for the style. Maple and coriander nose, simple scent really. Good body, rich but still a bit thin. Roasted nuts (almonds, peanuts, sunflower seeds), maple flavors, surprisingly good. More of a scotch/brown ale hybrid in my mind.

Red brown body and quite thin in aroma and body. Some malts but not nutty at all. A bit disappointing.