Left Hand Deep Cover Brown Ale

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottle from Sun Devil. Pours like date juice with a trim off-white head. Smells and tastes predominantly of raspberry tea, brown sugar, hops, and faint cream. Fair, if not strange.

Sampled at the GOBF. Dark brown color. Very bland smell with some OK malts and nuttiness. Taste is much like the smell. Not a whole lot goin on. Bland malts and light hops. Caramel and toffee hints.

Orange amber pour into off-white frothy head that dissipates into foamy ring of bubbles around the edge of the glass. Faint aromas of malty grain and mild hops. Initial flavor of malty citrus fading into lighty hopped finish.

Location: 12 oz bottle from Total Wine - Richmond, 7/21/09

Aroma: Caramel, roasted malt, nutty aroma
Appearance: Brown color, thin tan/light brown head
Flavor: Mostly malty, light hops, caramel malts really come out as it warms
Palate: Light to medium in body, OK mouthfeel
Overall Impression: As a lefty I like the brewery name, I haven’t necessarily been blown away by most of the beers I’ve tried from them, but they have been solid. This one is a decent example of the brown style, but it just doesn’t blow you away.

Bottle. Pours brown, as the name implies, with a medium, of-white head. Aroma is malty and slightly nutty. Flavor is malty, and very sweet. Creamy mouthfeel. Not too bad, but better brown ales are out there.

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.

Deep brown color with a thin off white head. Has a nutty aroma and the taste of caramel malt. Relatively smooth, malty and slightly sweet.

12 oz bottle. slight cinnamon flavor. Drinkable. Not as flavorful as my last brown ale, Corsendonk, but nice on it’s own.