Kassiks Kenai Brew Stop Dolly Varden Nut Brown

Brewed by Kassiks Kenai Brew Stop
Style: Brown Ale
Kenai, Alaska USA

Growler filled @ brewery. Brown with an off white head. Aroma is roasty, nutty, and cereal. Flavor is sweet malt with a light hop bitterness and an even lighter sourness. Very smooth and creamy mouth feel, medium body with a slightly dry finish. Very flavorful easy drinking beer.
Earlier Rating: 4/6/2009 Total Score: 3.4
On tap @ Spenard Roadhouse. Toasty malt aroma with hints of chocolate and nuts and a light smokiness. Brown with a tiny tan head. Mostly sweet with flavors of caramel, roasted malt and chocolate, very slight bitterness. Overall a solid brown ale, very drinkable.

On tap at Humpy’s. Dark beer with reddish color when held against the light. Creamy beige head. Lightly roasted grain nose. Caramel sweetness, roasted nuttiness, and some dark toast. Nice brown ale and it goes great with the smoked salmon spread.

20-Jan-08 (Draft: Humpy’s Alehouse in Anchorage, AK) Calling a beer a "holiday" beer could imply some winter spicing, but this is very much a straight-shooting nut brown ale with a rich, malty flavor. Very chocolaty, toasty, caramely and modestly nutty core flavors up front, with a very light hop profile in the background providing gentle bitterness. Slight toffee in the finish as the beer warms. It would be easy for a beer in this style to be too sweet, but not so here: light-medium sweetness is balanced by a touch of nutty tartness. Chocolate, toast and light toffee in the nose, and again, it’s not overly sweet-smelling. Smooth, medium-bodied and gently carbonated on the palate. Medium-dark brown in color and opaque though the center, with ruddy translucence at the edges. The small, tan head slowly settles to a broken film and thin ring. Overall, a very tasty nut brown ale with a deliciously malty flavor. Highly recommended.