Tröegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Pours dark brown, with a tan head. Aroma is malt, nuts, and brown sugar. Flavor is malt, hops, nuts, and chocolate.

Pours dark brown with a minimal tan head. Light chocolate malt aroma, with a slight hint of hops. Mostly chocolate malt in the flavor, with light notes of caramel, and a bit of hop bitterenss in the finish. Palate is light/medium, slightly bitter, and a bit of cocoa. Overall, more like a light easy drinking sweet stout than a brown ale. Not bad, just not much to it.

12 oz bottle into a Dimpled Mug glass. Thanks to Kirk for bringing this one back from NJ with him!! Pours a ruby light brown color with a foamed tan head. The aroma brings a very roasted nut sense with bits of roasted and sweet malts. Quite roasty overall, with a small sense of a buttery English brew. The flavor has a carmalized malt sense at the beginning before moving into a moderately roasted malt and nut body finishing out with a light bittered hop sense. During the finish a nice nutty flavor is present throughout as well. Somewhat thin of a palate feel, very light, smooth, and easy to drink. Nothing fancy, but a well crafted nut brown.

Ruby/mahogany pour with tight foam that dissipates quickly and laces the glass nicely. Aroma of light hoppiness and caramel malts. Slight nutty flavor with caramel malts present again and overtones of chocolate malts. Medium to thin body. Decent beer but not a standout for the style.

On tap. Clear brown with a small beige head. Soft, nutty nose and flavor.Solid but not a standout.

Clear mahogany pour with violet and burgundy hues. Quickly diminishing off white head, no lacing at all. Aroma is nutty malts, a backnote of chocolate, caramel and salty crackers. Mild scents of dark berries and hops sneak in at the finale. Flavor is big caramel chews strewn loosely throughout the body, with notes of salty chocolates, and a vegetal character that causes no detriment to the flavor, but certainly doesn’t compliment it either. The nut taste is peanuts and salted cashews, maybe a little almond as well. Very clean and crisp mouthfeel is a little bit sticky towards the end. Seems to me like Troegs is just treading water, progress is just ahead but always moving a little quicker than the pace of the brewery.

Bottle. Aroma of nuts, caramel, lights chocolate and roast. Mostly nuts. Pours very deep ruby/blood red with a tan head. Watery texture, nuts and malt with roast and what may be a hint of smoke. Touch of caramel, light sweetness and bg bitterness, light malt and metal, some earthiness. Not really good, but certainly chuggable.

Excellent nut brown ale. Troegs rarely lets me down and this time was no exception.