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Left Hand Deep Cover Brown Ale

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3202.98/5.02.98/5.04.3%38.5Dimpled mug
Commercial Description:
Deep Cover Brown Ale is brewed in the tradition of the brown ales commonly enjoyed in the U.K. Despite its reddish-brown color, it is light bodied and slightly sweet, making it a very drinkable and refreshing brew. Dark caramel malts lend this ale its rich color, while toasted and Munich malts provide just enough body to be truly enjoyable.
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 AR (423), Georgia, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 29, 2008  
This beer seems to be sort of a straightforward beer. It has a distinct alcohol taste but is relatively smooth for that type of drink. It has a light malt flavor and is a easy drinking beverage.


 ucusty (1881), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/512/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Hazy brown pour with aroma of malts and nuts. Molasses, malts and a slight twist of hops


 lithy (1650), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/512/20
Aug 25, 2008  
Releasing the cap with a lengthy pssst gives a surprisingly light almost reddish-brown color and a nice puffy cloud of light tan head. Sweet nose with a hint of hops. Body is nice and smooth with noticeable carbonation. Taste is caramel and bready malts with just enough hops to balance it out. Solid brown ale.


 GJF (498), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/510/20
Aug 14, 2008  
OK, but not great. Pours a nice red color with an overly active, large bubble head. It’s a sweet, nutty flavor, but the body makes this beer a little too cola-like and thin in the finish.


 otakuden (518), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/513/20
Aug 12, 2008  
My first brown ale experience, when I first started dabbling outside the usual boring, tasteless domestic beers was Newcastle Brown Ale. Since then, I am always on the look-out for a fine brown ale.
This brings me today to the delicious Deep Cover Brown Ale from Left Hand Brewing. I may be a righty, but in this case, I’ll take a lefty any day.
A small head, which I have found to be typical of brown ales. Deep brown with a tinge of amber where the light peeks through. Sweet milk chocolate and caramel malts in the nose, almost like caramelized pecans. Clean and smooth, with definite malt sweetness. Bubbles zip to the top as I take a quaff. Mild hops lemons on the side, but overall, it is the smooth, slightly crisp malts which bring Deep Cover Brown out of the shadows. Caramelized almonds, a hint of fruit (cherry), and sweet toffee carry my taste buds away to brown ale bliss. Overall, not too heavy a body. Just enough weight to remind me that she is a brown ale, and should be enjoyed as such. I’ve tasted heavier, fuller body brown ales so Deep Cover strikes a nice balance in the middle. Not as heavy as a Corsendonk Abbey Brown but not as weak as a Newcastle. My malty goodness is definitely up front, with the hops giving it a wee bit of lemony kick from the background, sneaking out more as Deep Cover warms and my glass grows empty.


 Gregis (1132), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 8, 2008  
Pours a deep orange-brown with two fingers of frothy beige head that diminishes to a thin cap. The nose is of toasted, malty, dark caramel and bready notes. Light to medium-bodied and creamy-slick with a sweet, mildly burnt and astringent finish. Sweet dark caramel and bready malt transition to a lightly dry and toasty finish. A sweet and malty brew; it’s nothing particularly groundbreaking, but it’s a decent brown.


 timsilvia32 (446), from Michigan now in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 6, 2008  
Foggy brown pour. Smells of some nut and light malt. Some roasted malt molasses with descent carbonation. Not real complex to say the least. Clean finish, drinkable. Probably not a bad beer if you’re planning on having many.


Apellonious (53), USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/102/511/20
Aug 5, 2008  
12 oz bottle from the Teeter...Pours reddish brown with a head, slightly creamy, that dissipates quickly. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, slight fruit. Taste has similar traits, sweet and malty, with a hint of smoke. The mouthfeel is slightly thin and watery, like someone left some extra water in the glass before the pour. Carbonation is thin and sharp. Low alcohol content and decent taste makes this a decent beer for multiple continuous consumptions in a day/evening, but the thinness keeps it from being a top line brown.



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