Sprecher Pub Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

500ml bottle. Translucent amber-brown color, minimal patchy head. Odd sweet caramel aroma. The taste comes off a little adjuncty, with some amber malt and a syrupy sweetness. Minimal sublime hops help you get this one down. Quite a poor example of a Brown Ale, even for Sprecher.

Pours a light brown with a one finger beige head. Aroma is light nuttiness, brown sugar, and a little caramel. Flavor is rather light. Caramel, light bitterness and metal in the finish.

had this a while a go. poured brown with a off white head. aroma malt, caramel and some hops. flavor malt, caramel, and hops.

Average ale. Again drank in car with AskDrTodd. Good road beer. Prob would have been better in glass not straight out of bottle.

It could be the bottle I got, but . . . Growing up, the nearest brewery to us was FX Matt, in Utica (Utica Club, Saranac, Matts; also bottles Brooklyn, Mississippi Mud, etc.). When taking the brewery’s excellent tour, one of the rooms had spent grain. That’s what this beer was to me-- the cereal-like spent grain with some of the flavors of an English ale thrown in. I’ll give this another shot if I find it on draft, but this was an inauspicious debut for my first try at Sprecher.

I didn’t expect this beer to be like this at all. Pours a deep brown with not a whole lot of head, but a little retention. Smells nutty and of brown sugar with a little mild hops. Taste is virtually exactally the same as the smell just a little more intense on the brown sugar and hops. This is pretty well balanced and overall I liked it enough to buy it sometime when I am looking for a departure. Brown ale is generally not my thing but this is ok.

Bottle. Nutty aroma, mild. Deep brown body, tan head. Flavor is very mild, hints of fruit and caramel. Finishes crisp but thin.

Nice aroma, color, slight head. Decent effervescence. Overriding flavor notes were bitter with a metallic finish. Not the best brown ale I have had.