Rating reflects the draugt version: Pours dark, dark brown, almost black, with a 1/2 inch head that dissapears quickly. Aroma is of chocolate and is a little musty. Lacing is light. Flavor is of roasted malt with cocoa and coffee. Palate is milky and a little alkaline. Finish is full flavored. This beer is good and kinda drinks like a porter. The oaked version is similar but is much more bitter is both aroma, but especially in taste. The flavor bites hard and is almost noticably acidic, as is the beer on the palate. The flavor is much more agressive, but I can’t specifically taste the oak.

Smoked hops and caramel aroma. Some citrus notes. Dark brown, fluffy head. Tangerine flavor, brown sugar, hops, and some smoke in the finish. Palate was a little sweet but full.

Draught. Cloudy brown beer without much head. Big citrus hop aroma, a bit too much for the style. Flavor is also dominated by hops with a cloying sweetness.

Dark rich brown pour with just a little light tan head. Smell is nice and roasty with a hint of coffee, along with the traditional draught house smell/feel to it. Some kind of soft, chewy, fruity element I pick up in basically all their beers. Taste is nicely bitter, and much more than most browns, or any that I’ve had for that matter. Roasty, a bit of a metallic bitterness and a medium to long finish on the beer. Good body, but not as smooth as something like a Samuel Smiths brown. Good all around, and unique for a brown, but not too unique from the taste profile of the Draught house’s other beers.

DH American Brown: Pour is dark ruby brown with a thin skin but dense brown head...smell is lightly sweet and nutty with a strong hop aroma of soapy notes...taste is slightly sweet and nutty at first, with a nice unexpected (if it weren’t for the aroma) lightly soapy bitterness in the finish...nice chewy mouthfeel, but quick crisp finish.