Søkildegaard Brown Ale

Brewed by Søkildegaard
Style: Brown Ale
Vipperød, Denmark

70 cL bottle. Pours dark and hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is liqourice, roasted malt, chocolate and sligt herbal coffee. Distinct hops fruity and herbal coffee flavoured start followed by a smooth body and filling chocolate flavour. Bitter and coffee herbal finish. Nicely lingering mixed flavoured finish.

Brew no 28: Brown with beige head. Pleasant malty aroma with some roasted notes. Malty sweet flavour with notes of roasted bread, rye bread. Coffee (Kenya AA)? A hint of spicyness? Lingers on to a hoppy bitter finish with sheeryish notes. Very good.

(0.7l) Deep dark brown colored with red hints, little yellow head. Caramelly aroma with chocolate, licorice, yeast and some interesting spiciness, mild coffee also comes up with nice fruits. Medium bodied, soft palated. Flavor is more sweet, licorice with chocolate and caramel, still mild alcohol also present. Aftertaste dries with flowery spinach and lasting licorice. Fine brew with fine licorice and convenient sweetness.

Bottle. Red brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, fruit, roasted. Flavour is sweet, caramel, hop, roasted. Nice OK beer.

Bottle. (#15) Reddish brown pour, leaving a nice, beige head. Fruity and sweet, roasted aroma with caramel and some chocolate notes. Nice fruity and sweet flavor, quite hoppy, finishing with sweetness and a nice spicyness. Full to medium body. A lovely brown ale. I’m growing more and more fond of this brewery, it’s a pity they don’t have a wider distribution. (071013)

Bottle... Dark mahogany ale with a small, creamy, off-white head. Decent retention. Acrid aroma of charcoal and earthy, peppery hops weigh heavily upon a chocolate and crystal malt spine. Strange latex note. Nutty, cocoa flavor is moderately sweet with minerally, reserved bitterness. Light to medium-bodied and caustic with lively carbonation. Sweet, chocolaty and then dry finish. Much thanks to boboski for sharing this bottle of beer!

(Bottle, June 2007 vintage) Pours a mahogany body with a medium beige head. Aroma of toasted bread, lightly burnt caramel, hard water, and nuts. Flavor of toasted malt, minerals (Calcium & Magnesium), and caramel with a bitter finish.

Thin beige head, slow and steady recession. Dark mahogany body, hazy and loaded with slowly rising carbonation. the aroma has a very interesting Belgian and English cross-composition, with notes of floral hops, hard water(Burton salts), caramel malt, toasted grains of multiple varieties, molasses and old vegetation. Spice is also apparent, mild and sprinkled with nuttiness. No alcohol is noted. Quite strange but compelling anyhow. Hard, mineralic water and vegetation throw the flavor askew. Ample roast, mild bitterness, low-mild astringency, mild sweetness and good balance are all noted. Kudos for a really unique flavor profile, nothing like I’ve ever encountered. Finishes lightly roasty, balanced, but also quite vegetal, spice lingering. the mouthfeel has great carbonation and is balanced with a nice medium body devoid of any stickiness or watery pockets.