On tap at Blue Grasshopper, placid amber-hazed brown ale retains lighter stylistic template. Mildly creamed caramel malts and dry wood-lacquered hops get softly integrated for fruited tea-like flow. Red apple, peach and fig nuances coalesce in the midst.
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SIERRA BLANCA BONE CHILLER BROWN ALE
On tap at Blue Grasshopper, middling moderate-bodied English-styled brown ale offers toffee-sugared nut roast and caramelized dried fruiting to iced tea-like sweetness. Light pecan, fig and plum illusions fade quickly. In the bottle, dryer cocoa-powdered Bakers chocolate influence informs sourer-than-sweet dried fruiting.
4 HANDS CAST IRON OATMEAL BROWN ALE
On tap at Flying Saucer in St. Louis, creamily rich oatmeal-sugared brown ale loads black chocolate-malted affluence, nutty coffee resilience, black-breaded rye graining and burnt walnut singe into aggressive dry-roasted hop bittering.
CLOWN SHOES THE BARISTA BREAKFAST BROWN WITH ESPRESSO
On tap at Ambulance, heavenly espresso-flavored brown ale takes brewers’ Brown Angel on a milk-sugared cold brewed coffee journey. Dry black coffee bittering contrasts sugar-creamed espresso frontage and brown-sugared oatmeal bottom. Tertiary vanilla, caramel latte, cappuccino and hazelnut sweeten the back end. A delightful breakfast alternative.
BARLEY JOHN’S WILD BRUNETTE WILD RICE BROWN ALE
Confounding wild-riced flagship nut brown brings soggy grain-roasted nuttiness and curious blood-soured mocha opulence to recessive rye malting and mild browned fruiting (desiccated fig, bosc pear, roasted grape, apple rot). Brown rice adjunct sweetens the fruitier aspects and maca-rooted chestnut roast.
PEEKSKILL MALTBALLS
On tap at Abominable Snowfest, smoky walnut-shelled mocha malting receives dry Centennial hop oiling to contrast light maple caramel saucing. Slick plastique scamper covers bitter nut-charred continuance and dark-roasted black chocolate bottom.
(HEINEKEN) BRAND OUD BRUIN
Made from an ancient brown ale recipe, light 3.5% ABV oud bruin lets cloying caramel malting offer Coca Cola and sarsaparilla-like sweetness to dewy cellar dankness. Chalky chocolate influence gets sour.
GOOSE ISLAND FESTIVITY ALE
Festive 2015 Christmastime brown ale blends “caramel and dark fruit malts,” picking up sharp hop astringency (50 IBU’s) and wily alcohol burn (7.7% ABV) to briefly overwhelm burgundy-dried fruit spicing. Dewy tobacco roast and dark chocolate mildness caress sugarplum, date, fig and raisin illusions as well as sweet orange peel spell. Subtle nutmeg, ginger and fennel wisps waver below.
SURLY COFFEE BENDER
Satisfying mocha-dominant brown ale in a can brings cold-pressed Guatemalan coffee roast to oily hop resin, oats-dried pale malting and mild earthen nuttiness. Reminiscent of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, perhaps, its creamy cappuccino snip and dark chocolate smidge sufficiently reinforce the day-old bitter java finish.
BRAU BROTHERS RING NECK BRAUN ALE
Musky oats-toasted nuttiness picks up musty dried fruiting over brown-sugared maple molasses and cocoa-powdered caramel malting. Dank prune, raisin, plum, black cherry and raspberry tones unexpectedly outpace nutty mocha resonance.
HI-WIRE BED OF NAILS BROWN ALE
Fine Asheville, North Carolina-based microbrewery initially allowed Mississippi’s Lazy Magnolia to brew and bottle its traditional ‘delicate bodied’ English Brown Ale. Mildly creamed toffee-caramel sweetness and wispy brown chocolate snip stay muted as surging walnut, cola nut, hazelnut, chestnut and butternut illusions gain prominence. Asheville’s Three Ring Brewery then took over bottling in 2016, bringing cocoa-dried cola nuttiness to chocolate hazelnut-breaded molasses sweetness and caramel-burnt coffee tones over earthen soiling.
HILL FARMSTEAD GEORGE
On tap at Ambulance, amplified brown ale brings black chocolate malt linger to light-roasted nuttiness and brown-sugared molasses sweetness. Fudgy hazelnut, pecan and chestnut illusions delicately drift into dusty cocoa chalking. Wispy vanilla creaming and subtle dried fruiting caress backend of compelling ‘imperial’-like dark ale.
