High & Mighty Home for the Holidays

High & Mighty Beer Co
Brewed at Paper City Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Holyoke, Massachusetts USA

Pours reddish brown with thin white head. Aroma is slight but some light oak and sweetness. Flavor is big time sweet with light roastiness. Sweet finish. Just so so for me. Not enough oak for being oak aged.

Bottle A wonderful cause great for the holidays Pours brown with a thin off white head. The head leaves quickly. Produces spotty lacing. Aroma is faint but I get band aids, and malts of caramel. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is okay. Crisp and clean but not much depth. Has a medium body. The finish is decent with an alright aftertaste.

To a great cause, but the beer was less than stellar. This one isn’t exactly a brown ale...I would, in fact, state that this one’s appearance is much closer to amber than brown. Too much ruby red/crimson and not enough mahogany here. 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch head produces just a spot or two of lacing. Aroma is nothing more than subtle malt sweetness: light caramel, minimal toffee, and sprinkles of powdered sugar. Similar flavor...uneventful. Thin for the style.

Date: December 03, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Appearance: clear dark brown, wispy beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet and spicy chocolate aroma, touch of caramel sweetness
Flavor: sweet chocolate and caramel flavor, nice balancing spicyness, light bitterness, touch of spruce
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

THOUGHTS: Great way to support the returning troops. Way better than I was expecting. A real malt bomb. It was nice at first, but got a little cloying and then came the metallic bitterness. It wasn’t spiced, but it did seem Christmasy, somehow. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a light to medium brown with a small, off-white head that mostly diminished. The aroma was moderate to heavy, molasses, and caramel malt, a little chocolate; light hops; toffee and sour, dark fruit. The initial flavor was sweet, acidic and slightly sour; while the finish was rather sweet, sour and bitter with an average to long duration. There was caramel, sour fruit, metallic hops, toffee, apple, a little raisin, a little chocolate, dark bread, fruits. Became cloying by the end. The medium body was a bit syrupy and got quite sticky by the end. It had fizzy carbonation and a metallic and lightly astringent finish.

Dark brown color with a quickly falling medium head. Light piney hop and caramel aroma. Nutty taste, kind of like walnut. A little oak. Some sourness. A bit of vanilla as it comes up a few degrees, but that sourness isn’t going away.

Like the description says, perfect for that special someone or dog. Well my dog loved it. I set it down and she lapped up about half without spilling a drop. What was left was very good. Brown with a hint of red with a nice tan head. I didn’t get a lot of aroma but what was there was all malt. The flavor is malty, smoky not at all sweet up front with a nice hop bitterness to follow. Very nice aftertaste. I’ll be Home for the Holidays again.

thanks to bman1113vr. poured amber with a beige head and some lace. aroam was spices, cinnamon, and ginger. flavor was spice, caramel, and alcohol. a bit watery but not bad at all.