Downtown Grill Nut Brown Ale

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

Date: 12/04/2004
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear brown, light malt flavor, nice nutty character, almost boring

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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on tap-pours a disappearing off white head and copper/red color. Aroma is hint of medium malt. Taste is medium malt/grain-some caramel, earthy/metallic hops bite.

Sampler draft at DGB. Dark brown color with moderate off-white head that diminished slowly. Moderate aroma of sweet malt. Medium body with smooth texture. Moderate sweet malt and hop flavor with short sweet finish.

TheDM and Hotstuff vacation brew 136. This draft brew was sampled at the Brew Pub in Knoxville Tennessee and served by an attentive staff that included the Owner, the bar manager, Daniel Goss, and the assistant brewer Joey Barbarito. This brew poured a head of fine to medium sized mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a transparent uncarbonated brown colored body and a good lace. The aroma malty nutty sweet mild and nice. The flavor was that of a very nice caramel brown malt that disappeared quickly but was nice while it lasted. The mouthfeel was smooth sweetly malted and had no bite. I like this brew a lot and it was very nice. So nice that the bar manager brought me a second glass for free! Thanks Dan!

Tap. Malt and caramel aromas with a mild hop nose. Pours nut brown with an off-white head. Flavors of malt and yeast. Medium bodied and fizzy.

Draft at Downtown Grill & Brewery in Knoxville, TN. A small sized tan head with fine-small sized bubbles that were mostly diminishing. The body of this beer was uncarbonated and transparent with a reddish-brown hue. The nose was sweet and malty. The flavor was caramel and malt with a bit of an aftertaste to it. The mouthfeel was very, very smooth and slightly thin. This was a medium bodied beer with good lacing.

First things first - Downtown Brown? Is this the best name they could come up with? There are no fewer than 7 "Downtown Browns" in the data base as it is, and this is the eighth. I mean please, show a little creativity, guys. That being said, this is a really good brown ale - a style I usually don't care for. Brownish red, with a thin white head. Fresh malt aroma. Consistant hop profile thoughout the palate. The malt is there, but only in the bacground. If you must quibble about style, this propbably is to hoppy to be a true English Brown, but isn't really overhopped, either. Very nice beer.

Copper colour with a decently thick tan head. Very subtle malt aroma with almost nothing else. Medium to Light-bodied; Flavourful maltiness, not too much...with a subtle sweetness. Aftertaste shows some of the maltiness and not much else. Overall, a bit worse than the average brown, but not great nor too bad. I had this on draught at the brewpub in Knoxville, Tennessee on 27-September-2003.