Great Waters Brown Trout Brown Ale

Brewed by Great Waters Brewing
Style: Brown Ale
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

11/11/07 Brewpub: Hands down the best beer they had. This is not a brown though. It’s a porter, but a very good porter, chocolate, roasted malt, coffee. Dark Brown, Full body.

On tap at the brewpub on 05/31/2009. Clear very dark brown body with ruby highlights and a large creamy light brown head. Chocolate and light nutty aroma with a bit of molassas. Sweet chocolate flavor some roasty hints with light molassas and a bit of nuttiness. Medium light body with moderately low carbonation. Not sure it’s really a brown ale, but it’s certainly tasty. 7/4/8/4/15 - 3.8 On handpump at the brewpub on 05/31/2009. Clear dark black body with ruby highlights and a medium frothy light brown head. Sweet chocolate aroma, light roast, a smokey hint and some light molassas. Chocolate, roast, and molassas flavor with a bit of light bitter in the finish. Very light body with low carbonation. 7/4/8/5/16 - 4.0

Semi-translucent and amber mahogany in color with an unresolved head resembling scattered cream of wheat. Chocolate and caramel goodness pipe out a profoundly rich nose. Creamy mocha beans and milky coffee coolers only further entice while being nurtured by cocoa dust over lightly toasted pecans & walnuts. Bigger flavored than the rest of this brewery’s offerings, striking a chord of almond butter and easily quaffed gooey turtle candy pieces. Eased carbonation lets the milk chocolate and expressive caramel draw out more spontaneity. Honey roasted and chocolate coated almonds bridge to the bigger bodied belly that is well balanced for what it is. It’s a brown done right, finishing with Hershey milk chocolate chips and brown sugar, along with a chocolate chip cookie sweet consistency and the classically gooey caramel center.

Brownish-red. Good nose, peaty and rather porter-esque with its roasts, bit of wood smoke. Darn good flavor here, sweet malts, mildly spicy. Nicely smoky, rich with maple syrup sweetness. Some chocolate at the end. Good palate, sticky and syrupy, but not cloying. It doesn’t strike me as a particularly traditional brown ale, but it’s enjoyable for what it is.

The description is pretty much dead-on, except that I found the nuttiness to be more assertive than a ’hint’. Quite smooth and drinkable. Very nice, this beer and this brewpub impress me.

Draft @ Brewpub: Very dark brown, nice head and lacing. Nose of nutty sweet caramel and nutella, chewy sweet raisin and a bit of cocoa and smoke. Licorice and cheddar, nice robust brown ale, I like.

chocolate and malt, smooth on the tongue. this was an enoyable brown ale, but very safe as most of the other beers seem to be.

Poured brown, average head. Nice roasty flavor with some nuttiness and finishes with hints of chocolate. Body was nice, slightly creamy. Very good.