Saint Arnold Brown Ale

Brewed by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Houston, Texas USA

Amber color with a small off white head. Nose: Caramel, chocolate, milk, smells like chocolate chip cookies. Taste: is creamy and milk with some more chocolate and caramel and a bit of brown sugar. Not bad.

This is a pretty good brown, it’s got a northern style to it for sure, which i much prefer. Not as brown as I would expect, it’s more of a light brown with some amber thrown in there. Aroma is caramel malt, somewhat sweet honey smelling. Taste is well balanced i must say. They use a killer yeast on this beer, nice fruity, sweet, and malty. There’s a clean hop finish too. I’m not the biggest brown fan, but this is pretty good.

G.A.B.F. 2008: Copper pour with creamy head. The aroma is mildly nutty, along with a hint of sweetness (raisin?) The flavor is a bit sweet. Simple with raisiny notes. A touch of bready malt and not much bitterness to balance. Vague, but OK.

Pours with a quickly vanishing, off-white head that turns into a ring. Hazelnut hued body. Aroma of nuts, maple and toasted malts. Taste is sweet with maple, nuts, and some cardboard. Fizzy, force carbonated and dryish.

Thanks to ckeegan04 for this one. Bottle poured into a standard pint glass produced a thin brownish head that went away quickly. The body was clear and brown in color Aromas of sweet malts and bread filled my nose Flavors are the typical sweet malts that I expect in my brown ales not to much in the way of a bitter presence at all. I did pick up a slight metallic taste as well. Good medium mouthfeel with enough carbonation for your tongue Drinkability is good on this brew. I can say I have enjoyed every brew from these guys that I have tried so far.

Bottle courtesy of ericandersnavy. Pours a dark amber that has an bright orange tint when held up to the light - doesn’t look much like a brown ale really. The head is small and short-lived and leaves a ring with no lacing. It doesn’t smell much like a brown ale either with a dominant candy apple sweetness, very fruity with little dark malt or hop aroma at all. Super sweet taste as well with more caramel and toffee than the aroma suggests. There is a hint of hop bitterness in the finish as well, though not much. The mouthfeel is creamy and medium-bodied with good carbonation. This is a very unique take on a brown ale though it’s probably not one of my favorites.

A good brown ale, decent flavor, but a little under hopped for me. Clean and refreshing and that means a lot.

Beer pours an almost ruby red brown color, crystal clear, with almost no head and lacing. The flavor was very sweet for a brown ale, almost bock-like in it. Some off flavor was also present. A very high level of carbonation left the tongue rather tingly. An okay beer, but hardly worth the effort of toting back from Texas to Delaware. Oh well.