Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

thanks to psprings for sharing this... pours a dark cola brown color with a small head which needed some help to get going. very rich aroma of chocolate, coffee nuttiness, a light lactic sourness, ash, caramel, earth (which i now know is the oats) and nearly metallic maltiness (metal dissipates). the flavor caught me off guard and i had to keep checking the label to make sure this wasn’t listed as an old timey porter... chocolate, ample amounts of roasty coffee, brown sugar, chocolate, ash, a touch of sourness similar to coffee and a plethora of floral hops on the finish which linger into the aftertaste to mix with coffee. the medium body leans on full but is in no way sweet or sticky. it’s very smooth and creamy yet a nice balance is made from ash and roasty bitterness. there’s something very familiar and comforting in this brew...8/4/8/5/18/4.3

650 ml, thanks to General Gao. Opaque chestnut with a small, enduring film of cream. Light aroma is cocoa, coffee and dry oats. Tastes of molasses, cocoa, lightly soured cream, and berries. Finish is sweetish coffee, dark toasted nut and dry oats. Medium-heavy body is smooth with light carbonation. Slightly sticky and roasty dry on the finish.

Sample at Flossmoor Station. Pours medium brown with no head. Aroma is coffee with a touch of caramel and nuts. Flavor is mostly coffee with a hazelnut-like sweetness. Good beer, second only to Big Black Pumpkin this evening.

Pours dark brown with a huge tan head. The head never fully dissipates, leaving some copious lacing. Aroma is malt, nuts, coffee, grain, and maple. Taste is of nutty malt, maple, grain, and brown sugar. Has a heavy, lingering coffee bite. Thick, sticky mouthfeel. Borders more on porter than brown ale. Very good.

22 oz bomber. Pours a very dark brown cola with a medium sized light brown head. Aroma of light molasses, cola and malt. Taste of light fizzy molasses, cola and nuts.

Rating 111, Bomber via trade with BBB63, thanks Mike for another great beer. Tons of foam on the pour, had to let settle. Nose is huge like the foam. Pours brown with a wonderful head. Nose is great, with big notes of molasses, brown sugar and sweet malts. Taste is sweet and sticky with a lot of flavor. Its always nice to find an exceptional brown, because in my opinion it is a style that is usually very flawed. This is very nice, very rich and incredibly smooth.

Tap at the Station. This may be the best brown ale ever brewed. Black as a train plume, thicker than Oil! Nutty, molassesy, caramelized, darkly sweet. Not at all thin, grainy or secretly a porter. Blow the whistle! And keep on blowin’! WOO-WOOOO!!!

(10/14/08) Draught sample at the brewpub in Flossmoor. Very dark brown to black color with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, some dark fruits and coffee notes. Sweet malty flavor with roastiness, nutty notes, some coffee and caramel. Medium to full-bodied. Nice stuff.