The Brown Note
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - American Regular|
Score
6.91
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The brown ale to end all brown ales. Enjoy it, because there is no longer any reason to drink another. You’ve reached the pinnacle. A healthy blend of traditional British malts give this popular style a semi-sweet, biscuity, slightly roasted flavor. Oats thicken the mouthfeel, and a handful of specialty malts add complex chocolate, toffee, and caramel notes. The hops are mostly traditional, earthy British hops, but we cocked it up a bit with some Cascade late in the boil just to show those snooty Brits that we don’t approve of that Constitutional Monarchy crap.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a very dark brown with a huge tan head. Aroma is a mix chocolate malt with a bit of leather and hops. Flavor is a thick chocolate malt with some earthy dirt and a nice roast to round things out. Pretty solid brown ale here. This is not you average thin brown ale. A big heavy and thick malty mouthfeel with a decent chocolate and roasted flavor.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2015
at 21:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Fermentoren, Aarhus. Pours dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma of malt, caramel, light coffee, little chocolate, toast, light grassy hops. Flavor is light sweet, malt, caramel, nuts, toast, coffee, chocolate. Thin to medium body, lively carbonation, dry finish. 071015
Tried
on 08 Oct 2015
at 14:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
16 oz. can purchased at 7-11, Kittery, ME. Well the artwork on this can is interesting. Maybe this is funny but really early adolescent humor. Or maybe I don’t have a sense of humor… Call me crazy but while I’m drinking a brown ale the last thing I want to think about is somebody shitting their pants. Anyways on to the review. Aroma is caramel with chocolate with underlying nutty hints.
The flavor is bold for a brown ale and certainly well crafted. Similar flavors as the nose; caramel, toasted nuts and some sugar. Funny thing is I can’t stop thinking about the out of shape cartoon image with the brown stain in his underwear while I’m drinking this. Overall a good beer with terrible marketing.
The flavor is bold for a brown ale and certainly well crafted. Similar flavors as the nose; caramel, toasted nuts and some sugar. Funny thing is I can’t stop thinking about the out of shape cartoon image with the brown stain in his underwear while I’m drinking this. Overall a good beer with terrible marketing.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2015
at 16:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a subtle crisp looking brown colored body with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated that dissipated within less than a minute. Lacing moderately stuck slyly around the glass in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with subtle coffee tones rolling into a nice sweet grassy richness. A decent amount of dark chocolate rolls into balance nicely.
The taste was a nice sweet to roasty subtle milky chocolate to bitter coffee just rolling into each other. There isn’t any aftertaste but it does have a quick semi-dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs nice - wants to hit but slyly moves over my tongue nicely.
Overall, as an American Brown ale, it definitely works. I’d say its real nice.
The appearance was a subtle crisp looking brown colored body with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated that dissipated within less than a minute. Lacing moderately stuck slyly around the glass in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with subtle coffee tones rolling into a nice sweet grassy richness. A decent amount of dark chocolate rolls into balance nicely.
The taste was a nice sweet to roasty subtle milky chocolate to bitter coffee just rolling into each other. There isn’t any aftertaste but it does have a quick semi-dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs nice - wants to hit but slyly moves over my tongue nicely.
Overall, as an American Brown ale, it definitely works. I’d say its real nice.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Sep 2015
at 15:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@Fermentoren, Copenhagen - dark brown pour with of white head. Toasty and roasted biscuity malty aroma and taste, medium sweet with some caramel, toffee, brown sugar, cocoa, nutty, medium bitter in the finish. Solid brown!
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2015
at 07:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap. Pours clear hazel, medium tan head, solid lacing. Aroma is roasty, ash, dark breads. Flavor is medium sweet, nutty and a bit smoky, well roasted malts, but no acidity. Very light bitterness. Smooth finish. Medium body. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Apr 2015
at 17:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Proletariat - NYC. Pours brown with a foamy, off-white head. A pretty basic brown ale. Moderately sweet with lightly toasted bread, toasty sugars, caramel. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Toasted brown bread in the finish, further caramel, faint earthy hops. OK.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2015
at 05:23