Harpoon Brown

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Pours clear copper with brown hues and thin off white head. The aroma is roasty with hints of caramel and slight dark roastiness. It tastes roasty with fairly full notes of malt, sugar and some caramel sweetness. Pretty nice stuff.

Deep brown color...thin head, but good lacing. Mild malt aroma, with very subtle hop undertones. Light malt taste in the front...very crisp, thin mouthfeel. Back is also a tad light, though with a slight hop tang. Finish has a mild malt sweetness, with somewhat of an underlying citrus flavor...very unusual for a brown. Pretty drinkable brew, though it doesn’t really seem to be put together very well. In an odd way, it reminds me of one of my first attempts at brewing.

One of the picks from the variety pack the wife bought me. Pours a medium to deep brown with a sweet malty nose. tastes of light malt and chocolate. Finishes crisp.

I was just really bored with this all together. Six different malts huh? seems as if this was put together without much care as a way to get just another style under the brewery.

Had a decent roasted malt taste to it, as well as some nutty and caramel sweetness, but overall it was pretty weak. Not a bad beer, but not a very good one either. LC

A - Poured a crystal clear light brown/amber color with a touch of ruby. A little lighter than I would expect. Nice carbontation, little to no head. First thing I thought of when I looked at this beer in my glass..."looks thin." S - Not a very aromatic beer. Smells that are present are of sweet malts and fruit. T - Not a lot of flavor here and certainly nothing complex. I guess "session" can be defined as simplistic as this is just a bland beer. Not a lot going on. Faint flavors of sweet malts but it’s just very watery/thin. Certainly nothing offensive exists, but certainly nothing noteworthy either. More flavors are present as reaches cellar temps but this beer needs to be kicked up a notch. M - Very thin/watery. D - Scores high here b/c it is very drinkable. I actually feel as though a craft beer newbie could be given this as a sort of transition/gateway beer. Not a bad beer, just not a good one.

Draft at the brewery tour. Poured a clear brown color with an off white head. Pleasant aroma of fresh flowery hops, leafy greens, and a bit of chocolate. Light to medium bodied and delicately sweet The flavor profile included the likes of chocolate, nuts, and light flowery hops. Nice brown. More hop aroma and flavor that usual for the style.

This one was recently brewed, but really didn’t produce much head in the glass. Good sweet malt and just enough clean hops to balance the hint of chocolate. Very "sessionable" as intended.