Upland Nut Hugger Brown Ale

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Bloomington, Indiana USA

(Draught) Pours a lightly hazy amber-brown body with an off-white head. Aroma of nuts, roasted grain, and some chocolate. Flavor of nuts, cocoa, caramel, light grass, and roasted malt.

Nice clear light orange brown color with a moderate bone colored head. Toasted malt and an actually nutty scent. A bit earthy and raw at times. Big malt flavors, with caramel, toasted malt and nuts. Rather zippy feel. Mild bitterness starts in the middle and builds into the finish and on to the linger. Finish is rather dry and lightly acidic. LInger has quite a bit of bitterness and a little bit of malt and toasted nuts. Pretty good as far a brown ales go.

Bottle. Small fizzy vanilla hued head that mostly diminished, fair amount of lacing, transparent ruby body, and fast rising carbonation. The aroma was toasty, chocolate, nutty, malty, sweet and roasty. The flavor was sweet, nutty, malty, nutty, some chocolate, roasty, lightly bitter, thin tasting, and the hops come through in the finish as the beer warmed up. The mouthfeel was tingly and thin. This is a light-medium bodied beer. An exceptionally easy to drink beer, nice aroma and flavor, worthy of a try, and definitely would drink this one again. Hats off to the folks at Upland for this beer. Gotta luv the label!!

Brown pour. Off white head. Some roasted nuts, light chocolate and roasted malt. Flavor has some chocolate, nuts, caramel and light hops.

Top ten label, all time. Bottle. Sweet nutty chocolate nose with earth and nice musty hops. Clear walnut body with a perfectly rocky and lacing tan head. Taste has dried out somewhat, nutty and bitter with hard roast and restrained malt. Touch of Guinness-like sourness and a somewhat heavy body hiding the relatively high alcohol relatively well. Solid nut brown.

bottle - Properly consumed whilst wearing compression shorts (alone! no one wants to see you in those, man) - ahem... pours dark amber with a one finger head. The aroma is mild toasted caramel malt. The flavor is nutty, caramel malt with some mild hops coming through mostly in the finish. It’s easy to drink and fairly light bodied. Pretty good, but I preferred the Rad Red I had earlier tonight by a small margin. I think this one could use a bit more body and intensity.

12oz bottle. Pours a very dark brown with some ruby highlights and a big beige head. Nose is mostly roasted malts, almonds, and a touch of grain. Flavor is very roasty and the finish has a slight bitterness and a light metallic quality. A decent brown overall.

Pour is a dark brown with a large white head. Aroma is nice a toasty malts with some caramel in there. Flavor is a nice roasted malt with an ever so slight nutty aftertaste. Decent for a brown ale and the only reason i picked this one up was because of the kick ass label.