Half pint Downers Grove - Aroma of roasted malts and toasted nuts. Pours dark ruby red-brown with a medium head and great lacing. Flavor matches aroma with a mild hop bite. Palate is smooth and a little dry. Easy drinking and tasty brown.

<i>Draft in an English pint, Downers Grove.</i> Deep red-brown body, one-finger light tan head, nice and clean looking. Rich cocoa malt smell. Easygoing texture is the first thing I taste. Continues cocoa impressions, adding a bit of coffee, caramel malts and a small amount of dark roast malt. Bit of yeast in the background. Malts are slightly bolder than average. with a correspondingly stronger Engligh hop bill. Hints of molasses cookie at the finish. A brown ale, but more of it.

Draught. 11/08/2007, Downer’s Grove. Pours dark brown, effervescent, red edges against light. NIce lacing, off-white head. A nutty roast malt aroma. Flavor is dry, nutty, toasted. Medium bodied with a bit too much carbonation making it feel almost cola like at first, but dying down. A nice lasting dryness.

At the Downers Grove location - This pours a very dark brown with a slender tan head. The aroma is full of caramel with some serious roasted malt, smokiness, and earthy hops behind it. It has a very lively mouthfeel, lots of carbonation for a brown. Very rich roasted malt and caramel tastes with a strong, earthy finish. Not really true to the style, but not a bad drink.<br /><br /><font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceID=2124><u>Emmett’s Ale House, Downers Grove, IL</u></a><font size=-1><br />