Tampa Bay Bones Brown Ale

Brewed by Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Tampa, Florida USA

This is one of my favorite brews from TBBC. This is brewed seasonally and it’s a little difficult to time it, but if you stop in and they have it on tap, get it. It has a more subtle and smoky flavor to it than most brown ales. A little hoppy to, though not too much. I’d notice, as I’m not much of a fan of IPA’s or other really hoppy beers. Enjoy.

Pours medium brown with a nice full head. Nice hints of nuts and malt that show off a deeper roast in the mid palate. It finished nice and well rounded.

Tap at brewpub. Nice brown pour with a thick tan head. Aroma of chocolate and roasted grain. Taste is smooth chocolate malt and some roasted grain. Good brown ale.

Cask @ TBBC. Pours deep amber, with thick beige head. Aroma is hoppy and grainy. Taste is grainy with some spices and malts, light hoppy aftertaste with some sweet honey? Some nice toffee/coffee roastiness. The cask gives the beer some extra resinous and light fruity (apple) note.

I have had this beer many a time but had not realized that I hadn’t yet rated it. Luckily, I took notice and had a couple pints the other night.
Pours a dark brown body and a tall khaki head. Tampa Bay’s beers are always outright appealing to the eye. There is a nice aroma and flavor of chocolate and walnuts, lots of toffee and a hint of smoke and burnt toast in the finish. Brown’s palate is robust and creamy with a big dry woodsy hopped finish. Another nice offering from the Dave’s over at Tampa Bay!

On tap @ brewery. Pours a clear deep copper with somewhat creamy tan head. The aroma is sweet with caramelized malts, malt astringency and pale malts. The taste hits first with a streak of malt astringency that ties into roasted malts, a hint of caramelized malts, faint chocolate malts and mild charred – burnt – cindered malt dust. That last part could be the chocolate malts I taste. This seems to be a nice brown. The malt astringency has its place but here it could be slightly reduced. But that may be getting too picky.

Clear copper body with beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, caramel, grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, grapefruit. Medium body.

Rich amber body with a puffy beige head. Aroma is sweet and slightly nutty. Malts are the order of the day here, with a strong but not cloying sweetness with notes of chocolate and caramel. Hops take a back seat but round it out nicely. I’m not usually a fan of browns but this is pretty good.