Orlando Brewing Uptown Brown

Brewed by Orlando Brewing
Style: Brown Ale
Orlando, Florida USA

Draft… Clear copper ale with a small, creamy, white head. Decent retention. The aroma is very chocolaty with some light butter and toffee notes. Malty-sweet, rich, chocolaty flavor with English-type hops to keep the malts acceptably restrained. Medium-bodied and lightly creamy with prickly carbonation. Finishes chocolaty and mildly sweet. Much better than expected.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours clear deep copper to amber with thin tan head. The aroma is mildly roasty, caramel and cookie dough to go along with a modest note of toffee. The taste starts with a modest amount of roasted malts and a hint of astringency. By midway I get a pleasing mix of caramel, faint cherry and sweet berry notes joining the malt roastiness.

Sampled on draft. Deep amber-brown color with a thin bar poured head. Sweet malty flavor with fruits and light hopping in the finish. Nothing all that complex but this is a pretty good beer.

Tap @ brewery pours amber, white head. Aroma had once again this bready / dough cookie aroma and home yeast strain. It complements the beer but becomes very noticeable in all of their beers. Light caramel notes malts. Taste, some berries, light caramel, thin bitter mouthfeel with again thus buttery dough palate.

12oz bottle from Whole Foods (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally clear amber color with reddish highlights and thin white head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of earth, nuts, caramel, honey, light roast, some hints of chocolate. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of light roast, chocolate, caramel, nuts, hints of honey and hints of toffee. Generally light to medium body with a malty finish.

on tap-pours a patchy off white head and copper color. Aroma is medium/dark malt-molasses, roasty, hint of (English) hops. Taste is medium/dark malt-molasses/caramel, roasty, hint of (English) hops. Smooth, medium body. Mild carbonation.

Bright chestnut brown. Nice lacing. Toasty with light chocolate notes. Creamy body with some toastiness. The finish is leaning towards dryness. Decent brown.

Unfiltered
This is a little darker, but just as bright. Creamier and huskier. It has less toast and hop character, both muted a bit by the yeast. It definitely loses something. 4-5-5-3-11 = 2.8

Draft sample at the brewpub. Poured clear brown color with an average frothy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate toasted malt and nuts aroma. Medium body. Medium toasted bittersweet flavor with an average smooth sweet finish of moderate duration. Drinkable brew.