Hook and Ladder Backdraft Brown Ale

Brewed by High Falls Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Rochester, New York USA

Clear chestnut brown with a 3 mm caramel head. Mild roasty aroma with caramel and nuts. Taste is essentially the same. Pleasant and drinkable, but not a stand-out in any way. $2/12oz

12oz bottle. Pours a nice deep brown with a light brown head, which hung around. Aroma is malty, with a hint of flowery hops. Taste is well balanced, malty with a nice hop finish. Slightly roasted flavor, with a hint of coffee and chocolate.

Pours a clear dark brown color with a huge frothy off-white head. Aroma is overall very light with some low roasted malt notes, very light hops presence and some mild nutty hints. Flavor has a watery toasted note at the start, some light almond and walnut nuttieness in the middle and finishes with a light chocolate malt note with some earthy hops. Body is very light with the texture pretty thin as well. A modest amount of lacing is left on the glass. Overall there seems to be something lacking in the early part of the flavor, its like there is a delay in the flavor onset which seems to water down the palate a bit and when combined with the low aroma presence, really makes it just an okay beer.

Poured a dark/clear with a decent head, aroma I thought smelled like a cleaning solution? and first sip was a little metalic, or soapy, kinda hard to describe, it was a clean glass too. But, once it warmed up a touch, it was a whole new beer. Dark roasted malt, with what seems to be a spicy dark belgian. turned out to be a nice Brown....but wait for a warmer brew, maybe upper 40’s.

Clear ruby/brown color with a fleeting head. Mild roasty malt, chocolate aromas. medium body. Very mild roasty nutty flavors with some rootbeer spicyness.

Bottle. 12 oz. Pours deep brown with a smooth, off-white head. Full body, nearly stout-like. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, pepper, cloves, and hints of hops. Clean finish. Good brown ale.

From a 12oz bottle poured into a Dimpled mug at 40°. Color is a deep amber with good carbonation and a loose off white head. Aroma of roasted malt with a little caramel. Taste is thin and mildly roasted. Starting with a lighter medium body it goes down easy with a crisp feel. Finish is a mild roasted malt taste with a hint of hop spice and ending with a light bitterness. Overall its an easy brew to drink but it seems a little too light.

pours mahogany brown with quickly dissipating head. aroma is buttery and nutty. flavor is very sweet, like toffee brittle. leaves and oily coating on the tounge with some woody caramel notes. good but a tad too sweet for me.