On tap at Plank Pizza, caramelized Maris Otter malt sweetness, dewy tea-like brown malt mossing and leafy hop astringency combine for festive English-styled autumnal delight underscored by lightly creamed chocolate roast.
On tap at Ambulance, one of the more adventurous English brown ale’s plies peat-sweet dewiness to Marris Otter-malted caramelized dried fruiting, staying sweeter than many dryer Anglo browns due to its crystal-sugared chocolate base, perhaps.
Creamily resilient English-style brown ale presents dark chocolatey Cubano espresso deliverance to lactic vanilla milking. A precise Cuban coffee knockoff, its pervasive lactose cacao nibs continuance soothes the soul as molasses-sapped burnt caramel and tertiary cola-pecan-hazelnut-walnut illusions add further luster to frothy espresso seduction.
Sessionable English-styled brown ale stays mild as bittersweet cocoa-dried chocolate chalking slithers lightly alongside desiccated dried fruiting and ashen nutty respite. Walnut-seared hazelnut, chestnut and grape nut illusions scorched by coarse earthen hops to contrast muskily caramelized chocolate malting. An efficient English-styled pub ale for the proletariat.
On tap at Cooper’s Seafood, smoothly watered nitro version of world-class English-style brown ale hits the tongue like a fudged brownie, gaining gentle vanilla creaming over light hop toasting. Original version’s stove-burnt coffee tones fade below mellowing nutty brown chocolate finish.
Appealing dark chocolate-malted cocoa frontage of mildly dry brown ale allows quaint nut roast and relegated molasses sugaring to sedately linger over multigrain-breaded hop toasting, appeasing light-to-moderate-bodied dark ale fanatics.
On tap at Ambulance, English brown ale perhaps stays a bit too nuttily sour for mainstream tastes. Soured prune astringency seeps into coffee-stained walnut and Brazil nut midst. Recessive brown rice tea, light-roast coffee and Blackstrap molasses illusions falter.
Intriguing English Brown Ale neatly duplicates molasses-draped gingerbread cookie. Brown-sugared nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and cardamom spicing as well as light vanilla hints sweeten gingerbread theme over slightly coarse hop astringency, ascending orange peel bittering and light pumpkin pie piquancy. Sharp ginger spicing really takes hold at finish. Well-done Christmas dessert treat.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, sessionable dry-hopped English brown ale scatters walnut chocolate cake illusions across mossy earthen peat. Brown tea-like followup seeps into mild hop bittering and light biscuit malts. Lightweights’ delight.
Tolerable dessert beer spreads dark toffee all over creamy brown chocolate, vanilla and coffee illusions. Chocolate pudding, marzipan, almond, pecan and hazelnut undertones further sweeten burnt caramel malting. But coarse hop-charred bittering counters with heavy-handed astringency.
Better defined as a dewy mocha-nutted brown ale than English strong ale, rocky tan-headed amber-browned medium body gains unwanted astringency by its dark-spiced caramel-malted finish. Faint plum, raisin and walnut illusions and hesitant barleywine nip fade abruptly.
