Mikkeller Jackie Brown

16.9 oz bottle. Clear reddish brown with a pocked bone head and lacy rings. Nose is pine-grapefruit with a musty, doughy sweetness. Medium light and resiny with a sprinkling of carb. Taste is grapefruit but not much more. Woody drying. I could not find the Brown in this ale.

Very good brew, but seems more like a sweet stout than a Brown ale. Cool bottle with good story and high print quality. Dark brown colour and fine brown head. Very powerfull burnt and hoppy smell. I always fell like a dog before sipping. Burnt aroma of coffee and toast, and the kicking hops. The hop aroma is piney and grassy, and the beer lacks a little sweetness. Very dry finish due the hops.

This is how to make a brown ale. Solid warming malt presence, rich chocolate roasty flavors. Hops enough to balance but not distract from the malts. Smooth and creamy palate.

Bottle from Kan. Pours hazy brown with some red hues. Big egg shell head that ain’t fading anytime soon. Big blast of pine scented aroma hops, along with a hint of coffee and nuttiness. The flavor is all hops to me as well. Long grass bitter finish as well. Where in the hell is the malt? Med/light body. Average carbonation. Dry finish. This beer could be so much more with a bit of malt flavor.

Super tasty, rich toasted coffee/chocolate malt, nice use of hops....well done brown ale!! The hop addition, like Brooklyn’s Brown version, does the brown ale genre justice....Well worth the money!!

1 pt .9 oz bottle purchased at Liquor Max in Loveland, CO. Pours dark brown with a large, frothy, light brown head, somewhat lasting with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (toasted grain, meal, straw), heavy hops (perfume, flowers, pine), light yeast (leather) with notes of liquorice and cola. Medium bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness. Overall, a well-crafted beer but the amount of hops make it damned hard to find the chocolate malt and coffee touted to be in here. This is easily the hoppiest brown ale I have sampled.

JB is marvelous (Billy Crystal). A cold pour serves up a coffee brown color and a tall lingering froth that reduces to a fluffy canopy and lace w/ sticky snail tracks on the sidewalls. The aroma, a nice balance of roasted coffee and citrus rind. Medium full nectar with superb carbonation. The texture is like soft high threadcount Egyption cotton. A big malty bacobone balanced by a strong citrus rind bittering component. Mildly roasted coffee bean, cocoa, citrus peel, and leather. The finish is bittered well leaving cocoa and asprin to linger. Overall: this is one of the best brown ales I’ve had. Excellent use of hops, solid chocolate malting, just marvelous. Highly recommended.

The color was medium brown. The head was creamy, foamy, and thick. The aroma was coffee, roasty, and malty. The flavor was strong coffee and rich malt. The palate was smooth. The finish was bitter/hoppy.