Smuttynose Old Brown Dog

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Pours ruddy brown with a thin cream colored head. Nose is sweet and malty. The flavor is the same with a dry hop finish. Kind of boring.

The pour was a very dark brown but with a faint copper at the bottom of the glass. Lacy off white head. Nose is malty but faint. A second smell picked up some sweetness, but that was after the first taste. The malty character finishes as a sweet caramel but the overall experience feels stunted. Well balanced American brown.

(Bottle). Sweet malty aroma. Lovely hazy dark brown color. Taste is full of malts and caramels, and some hops are evident. Pleasing finish. Excellent brown ale. (And underrated on the site.)

kinda a mahogany color, little head. Nose is nutty and sweet malts flavor is similar with some hops on the finish, not bad ...

Pours a dark brown with minimal head. The nose is sweet with roasted malt and a nice nuttiness. Lightly carbonated. Hints of nuttiness, caramel and sweet malts in the taste.

Decent brew. Pours hazy brown with little to no head that left quickly. Sweet, malty aroma, smells of caramel and fruit. Very smooth taste with light carbonation. Easy drinker, would make nice session beer.

I poured this from a growler - it is a nice dark brown, but leaves almost no head (and what it does leave disappears quickly). It isn’t overpoweringly strong in taste or smell - the malts are apparent, with a touch of brown sugar and raisins. Pleasant, but not extraordinary.

Got a single bottle for a buck because it was missing the label, so it was a bit of a crapshoot as to what beer it was, but what the hey, im a risk taker. Poured dark brown, hence the beer being old brown doggy. Fairly heavy for a brown, rich and caramel-ey. Similar in taste and appearance to Bender. Good stuff, glad i took the gamble on this.