Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Greatly underrated beer. Pours brown, thin beige head. Aroma, lots of maple goodness, caramel malts. Flavor, easy to drink straight forward nut brown. Lots of maple, giving a nice caramel aspect with hints of roasted malts, coffee mix. Can’t get over the whole maple aspect. Smooth palate, plenty of caramel/maple. Tasty.

Yeasty wet cardboard aroma. Gorgeous dark leather brown in color. Descent malty flavor with a trailing sweetness afterward. Overall, no really overpowering maple taste but a trailing sweetness hits you in the aftertaste.

17th June 2008. Surprisingly sour and unsweet ale. Doesn’t taste of maple. Very drinkable if not as sophiticated as a Belgian sour.

GLASS: Sam Adams Perfect Pint Glass TEMP: Cellared @ approx 50 degrees This pours a medium-dark copper color with light ruby highlights. The tan head of foam is about a fingers worth. It recedes to a creamy surface covering, which sticks around for quite awhile. Lacing is in mid-size ropes and fairly sticky. This smells like toasted, maple glazed, pecans. Pretty tasty smell. A slight touch of cinnamon. Good presence of maltiness. A light touch of butteriness. It doesn’t taste quite as good as the nose, but it’s still good. A good level of maltiness seems to be the base componenet. This is complemented by a toasted nut profile, which adds some depth to it. Then you get a light drizzling of maple sweetness, to seal the deal. There are also light notes of buttered toast. Medium-bodied with a medium level of carbonation. Has a very nice creaminess to it. This is a very drinkable beer. I see no reason to not be able to drink these all evening. If you dig Scotch Ales, this is in the same ballpark, just on the mild side.

Thought this was an interesting concept after having recently tried Canadian Breakfast Stout, so I grabbed a bottle at Olive or Twist to tailgate with. Nothing special, pretty gimicky. Cloying sweetness and a slightly off-putting sticky mouthfeel. The aroma and flavor are nutty and syrupy, just as one would expect. Everything else is way out of balance! A slightly higher ABV might have cut through the sweetness and really propelled this from the realm of a one-timer to an interesting seasonal novelty.

Pours amber. Nose is maple, hazelnut, peanut brittle. Taste is pretty average for a brown ale. Lots of maple in the taste

very sweet, nice flavor. But the low alcohol is a real bummer. This was one of the best beers in the variety pack I bought. That being said...I’ve got a few more to rate and they’re all down hill form here.

12 oz bottle from Abe’s. Poured a reddish/orange with a bubbly light beige head. Aroma of chcolate malts and light maple syrup. Flavor is syrupy and malty with distinct maple. Thinner bodied with strong carbonation and a lingering sweet afttertaste.