Downtown Grill Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Downtown Grill & Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Knoxville, Tennessee USA

Draft at brewery. Clear dark brown-copper. Earthy, dry cocoa and spicy molasses aroma. Toasted nut initial flavor, with a dry cocoa and British yeast finish. Palate is light-medium, dry and astringent.

Some nuttiness, warm malts. Not a ton of flavor. Fairly light for a brown ale. Not bad though.

Tap. Not much of an aroma, perhaps some malty sweetness but I like the dark Ruby Red color. The head was fairly thin and the taste is also of malts with a slightly bitter finish. A good substitute for when they occasionally run out of the state street stout.

Pours a beautiful dark brown, with a nicely creamy head. Tastes of roasted nuts blended with caramel and a note of coffee lurking about in the background. A bit light in the taste for such a dark brew, exacerbated by hoppy finish that could stand some heavier notes up front.Overall, a fairly good brew.

Draught. Deep amber, frothy beige head. Eyewatering nose of sour milk and yoohoo chocolate drink. Tastes exactly the same; sour milk and mocha latte. For comparison, the sourness is of equal intensity as the infamous infected Victory V10. Medium-light body, creamy. Poisonously overbitter muddy and ashtray aftertaste coats the tongue. If any of the commercial description flavors were in there, they were completely overwhelmed by lactic sourness. Nasty!

I had the Alt before I had this don’t make that mistake. This beer was a nice amber pour with light lacing. It had a sweetish maltiness with a light bitter finish. A very well balanced beer. A nice beer that was just a tad on the watery side. Overall a damn fine brew. I wish I could make one like it.

Maybe their best beer. Good malt characteristics, not overly hoppy. Brown, fair amount of head. Light/medium bodied.

Chesnut-red with not much of a head. Caramel aromas with some fruitiness. Flat malty, yeasty flavor with some restrained bitternesst. Light finish. Not much nut flavor.