Buckerfields Appleton Brown Ale

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

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.

on hand pump-pours a dissipating light tan head with bubbles and amber/brown color. Aroma is medium malt-sweet molasses, dark fruit. Taste is medium malt-sweet molasses, nutty, dark fruit.

Nearly no aroma at all, and what there is is light and sweet. Pours a dark brown with a decent head. Nutty, pleasant flavour. Mild hopping, not much in the way of a finish. Thin and low in carbonation, an ok beer.

Draught sample from Swans Hotel. Light nutty aroma, with mild chocolate and neutral hoppiness. Very mild aroma. Medium copper-brown clear with foamy light tan lacing head. Medium-light bodied with smooth carbonation (don’t remember if hand pump or not). Smooth brown ale with light biscuity malt character, smooth nutty notes, with a bit of cherry wood and hint of diacetyl. Smooth finish with mild sweetness and light fruity character. After is slightly nutter. A decent brown ale.

7/14/07 On draught at the brewery. Aroma is light caramel blended with citrus. Appearance is light brownish copper with a good white head. Flavor is very light malt almost no hop character, quite off from style. Mouthfeel is creamy with low carb texture. Overall, this is more like an English mild than a brown.

Glass, 5 ounces, cask, at the pub, savoured on April 30, 2009; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, tiny ring of tan head, slight lacing; nose: light nuts, light dusty, light basement, light ash, slight caramel; mouth: watery, light malt, light nuts, light dusty, light chocolate milk, watery finale in malt with presence of ash, medium-light body, lightly sweet, slightly bitter, not much carbonation, thin; overall: disappointing, the nose was announcing something interesting but the mouth was not there FRANÇAIS Verre, 5 onces, cask, bue sur place, savourée le 29 avril 2009; œil : cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse fauve, très légère dentelle; nez : léger noix, léger poussière, léger cave, léger cendré, léger malt caramel; bouche : aqueuse, léger malt, léger noix, léger poussière, léger lait au chocolat, finale aqueuse en malt avec présence de cendré, corps léger-moyen, légèrement sucrée, très légèrement amère, peu carbonatée, mince; en résumé : déçu, le nez annonçait quelque chose d’intéressant mais en bouche, ça tombe

Sample glass. Almost no head. Crisp brown liquid. Light oily dark malt aroma. Thin body. High alcohol quality. Thin nutty flavour.

On a small pub crawl while onshore for a few hrs from my cruise ship, I hit up Swan’s. As a general statement for all of their beers that i tried, the good news is that they were served at the right temperature. The bad news is that none of them was too good, IMHO. THis was slightly roasty, a bit thin.