Dominican Brown Ale
Infusion Brewing Company in Omaha, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
7.02
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 2/14/2019. Pours hazy very dark reddish brown color with a 1 finger dense and fluffy khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of caramel, milk chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. A bit too fruity/yeasty aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, milk chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, peppery, roasted coffee bitterness; and acidic tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, milk chocolate, cocoa, medium roast coffee, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, brown bread/crust, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness and tart/tangy balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/tartness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky/acidic/tangy mouthfeel that is good. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.8%. Overall this is a very good flavored American brown ale. Getting some Lacto infection for sure, but it didn't take over the beer. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/tart/drying finish. Nicely soft feel. Balanced rich malts, vanilla, cocoa, and fruity/nutty coffee complexity; with solid earthy hop presence/balance. Mildly sweet with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering and good style example; aside from the off flavors.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle. Pours a almost pitch black red color with a small brown bubbly head. A big coffee vanilla nose. Sweet coffee, huge vanilla beans, smooth. Light toast, tropical notes. Pretty nice. A bit sweet and thin, but good.
CLW (16859) reviewed Dominican Brown Ale from Infusion Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
4 oz draft at the source. Deep brown color. Aroma is subtle chocolate, mild vanilla, hints of nuts.
Flavor is is much the same. The chocolate comes out very smooth and rich. Body is decent for a brown ale that is under 6%
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft. A- Cocoa, coffee. A- Brown color, cloudy liquid, off white head. T- Coffee, cocoa, dry. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, slightly bitter finish. O- For a brown ale it was well done. A little more and this could easily have been very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at the source courtesy of Jared and HuskerTan, thanks! Dark brown color. Aroma of cocoa powder. Taste is sweet milk chocolate and malted milk balls. Very tasty.