Dogwood Decadent

Formerly brewed at Dogwood Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Date: 07/15/2003
Mode: Draft
Source: Summits - Cumming

opaque brown, slightly sweet nutty malt aroma, rich complex malt flavor, lots of toasted malt character, well balanced but not hoppy, nice earthy hops kick in about hdlf way through, malt character is absolutely phenominal

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Score: ***4
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(Draught) Pours a deep burgandy with a thin white head. Aroma of rich malt, hops and molasses. Woody, spicy, and hops flavor.

Cloudy murky brown with a thin tan head. Mild malty aroma has a touch of hops. Pretty thin bodied and dry with some off-balanced earthiness to it. Something probably went wrong with this sample.

Hazy brown with amber highlights that produces a thin tan ring and minimal lace. The aroma hints of floral and piney hops, raosted malts, caramel and earthy yeast esters. The taste is piney and sappy, some sweet malt malt and biscuit background. Citric, woody and spicy supporting characteristics. The finish is very bitter. Dry and astringent mouthfeel. Unique and good beer, quaffable but a brown ale? Not really, more like a dark APA.

Tap at KP’s cellar. Poured a murky deep amber with a large light tan head. Aromas of malt, paper, and light spice. Flavor starts out malty then half way through becomes spicy and stays that way through finish.

On tap at KP’s cellar bar. Thanks Kieth! Pours a dark brown, mostly clear, and nice lace. Aroma is nice and toasty and bready with slight nutty malts as well. Good malt sweetness mixed with fruity esters as well. Flavor profile still tasted pretty fresh despite this not being brewed in a while. Malty, clean toasted biscuit malt, and a clean finish. Nice.

Nice brownish color with smallish head. Taste has a rasberry sourness to go along with a mildly sweet maltiness. Weird kind of yeast taste. I’m not sure what they are going for with this style but I doublt it’s a brown. Tastes a bit like a dubbel but what do I know?

This stuff is just awesome and that is really all there is to say about it, try and make up your own mind. A definite porter quality with some nice mellow roastiness, nutty flavor dominate. Nice chocolately coffee esque character that is not overly sweet or bitter. Perfectly balanced and lightly complex.