James Page Burly Brown Ale

Brewed by Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

Pours clear medium brown with a 2 finger beige head that lasts a while. Aroma is nuts, grainy and toast malts, faint sweet toffee and earthy hops. Flavor starts off with a well balanced earthy hop - toast and chocolate taste that is pretty decent, a faint sourness that lasts through the finish is present as well. The earthy hops fade and nutty, sweeter bread, and caramel malts come in to form a nice chewy middle. Finish is toffee, and bitter earth and plant hops. Body is medium-thin, and carbonation level seems to fit the flavor profile well. Overall this seems fairly average for the brown ales with maybe a slightly crisper hop character.

caramel, earthy, clear, light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium sourness, medium body, soft carbonation, flat, soft carbonation, thin feel, astringent,

Small bottle sent as a bonus by Hopdog. This pours a light, clear brown with not much of a head. The aroma is interesting in that it smells like it once had very pronounced hop qualities that have since faded away to cheese. But, I doubt that’s the case. Hints of nuts and caramel make up most of the scents. The mouthfeel is par. There is a candied quality to the flavor, though it is never excessively sweet. Burly Brown is nutty and cheesy with a light palate. It’s a clean and simple brown ale, but certainly not burly.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Cellar’s Wine & Spirits in St Paul, MN. Pours a clear brownish amber brew with a fast dissolving off-white head. Aroma of light caramel malt, a touch of toffee and chocolate with some light flowery hops. Taste is light bodied, some extra carbonation with flavors of roasted caramel malt, touch of chocolate, flowery hops and some citrus. Finish is semi-sweet with a watery roasted dark malt aftertaste. An average brown ale overall.

Poured amber with a thin head. Aroma - was light roast malt. Taste - Roast malt and caramel. A bit thin for my taste.

12 oz bottle from Hy-Vee - Not much nose. Pretty generic brown flavor, but not bad at all. I might date her once or twice, but I wouldn’t bring her around my friends.

Nose of malt and red grapes. Transparent light broen with a quickly disapearing head and thin lacing. Taste is lightly sweet malt and then Bud Lite. Not a bad beer but not what I would consider ’burly’. Or even ’Brown’ Kind of tastes like a slighlty sweeter Killians.

Pours a nice dark color, with a good flavor which has a hint of choclate. A little thinner than I expected though.