North By Northwest Belgian Brown Ale

Pours a nice lightish brown color. Smell is light on the spiced belgian yeast aroma that I typically don’t care for, making this nicer than expected for me, and a cereal like sweetness comes along too. Taste is nicely malty, somewhat sweet for a belgian, and a lighter than average yeast character. This is easily one of the more drinkable belgians for me.

Date: 05/19/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

Appearance: hazy brown with a red edge, whispy beige head,
Aroma: sweet estery malt aroma,
Flavor: nice light chocolate flavor with a touch of tartness,
Overall: really nice and easy drinking Belgian brown with a wonderful tart edge

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **+/4

Bottle courtesy of walt. Suprisingly good. Like many of the Jolly Pumpkin brews I’ve had minus the brett. Smooth, very drinkable. Nice brew.

Pour looks like lowly carbonated apple juice, with a small, mostly diminishing off white head. Aroma is of caramel apples, toffee, mild sourness, semi-sweet malt and loads of yeast. Seems very unrefined, possibly not complete. Flavor is more apple, sacchromyces-like sourness, pear and cherry. Doesn’t taste like any Belgian brown previously encountered. Very good nonetheless, with fruity and moderately dry finish. Off the wall.

Sampled at the O-Town throwdown. Poured out a hazy brown with a thin white head. The aroma is musty, funky, soured and tart. For the flavor I get some sweet malts hitting up front and that is quickly over run by moldy cheese sourness and hints of lemon. This beer doesn’t taste as tart as it smells.

Growler(?)...O-Town Throwdown... Murky golden ale with a mid-sized, frothy, white head. Terrific retention. Acidic, fuzzy fruit nose with notes of lemon, apple, sugar cookie and yeast. Sweet, tangy (almost tart) flavor with light, aged-hop bitterness. Medium-bodied with moderate carbonation. Lightly sweet, toffee, black cherry finish. Degarth provided this beer... thanks, man!

This one came to me from Walt via Degarth at the Fl. Gathering. Sour pear aroma. Pours light brown. The flavor starts out spicy, with some sourness, and an overall mustiness. There is also some light brown sugar flavor.

Thanks to Walt for sending this my way. This poured a hazy brown color. The nose was very yeasty. The flavor had lots of fruit in spice. It quite saison-like. It had a clean citric finish.