Bed of Nails Brown Ale
Hi-Wire Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.53
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Bed of Nails is crafted as an American ode to a traditional English brown. A light hop addition balances the natural sweetness present in the specialty malt. This beer’s delicate body and dry finish allow flavors of toffee and dark fruit to shine through.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Amber. Malt, caramel, some toffee, minerals, some nuts, some fruitiness, sweetish, bitterish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2018
at 20:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the source. Pours hazy brown with a light beige head. Malty, nutty aroma. Taste is brown bread, caramel, nuts. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2018
at 22:10
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
In my jack lambert glass this smells like old higher gravity lager. It's eye is dark brown and bold. Taste is aged higher gravity lager as well with just a tad of dark beer flavors. Metallic thick rich higher alky flavors. Pretty good beery kick for a couple of bucks. Yes, now that I think about it, it does come across somewhat like a real old county english brown, heheheh. Finish is near cloying toffee and metallic medicine. Strong dark brew personality overall. Strong, without going baltic, yeah.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2018
at 21:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have a huge amount of sweet malts. Hints of caramel and milk chocolate. Smooth. Well balanced and sessionable.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2018
at 18:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle. Cloudy, dark brown colour with ruby glimmer and small to average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Malty and minimally fruity hoppy aroma, hints of caramel, toffee, an ephemeral touch of strawberry, some hazelnut. Taste is slightly bitter hoppy, nutty malty, hints of toffee, a touch of caramel, subtle sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2018
at 23:39
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
Clear amber brown colour, tall frothy beige head, slowly collapsing, fair lacing. Aroma roasted malts, grain, dark bread, caramel, light chocolate, bit nutty. Taste medium sweet and bitter, roasty, grainy, light chocolate. Malty sweetbitter aftertaste, chocolate and nutty notes. Medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation, well-balanced and tasty, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2018
at 11:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Hazy dark red to red-brown color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, caramel, brown sugar, a touch of vanilla (?) or toffee sweetness. A slight malt bitter touch. Decent body and carbonation. Quite ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2017
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
7 3 7 3 15 Brown with a small tan head. Aroma of malt, raisins, overripe dark fruit and caramel. Flavour is above moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2017
at 12:57
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Whole Foods Market, Wilmington, North Carolina. Hazy mid-brown with a thin head. Has some chocolate in its darker malt character and a cola-like sweet nose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 08:40