Dark
Hockley Valley Brewing Company in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.40
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Our Brewmaster had a penchant for English ale, so he created something better, combining two styles of ales he fancied while studying and brewing his way across the UK. It’s an ingenius hybrid of a Northern Brown Ale and a Midlands Mild, with a body tweaked to give it a lighter, more North American appeal.
Hints of roasted nuts, caramel, chocolate, and coffee combine to make this award winner one of Ontario’s best-selling craft beers.
Hints of roasted nuts, caramel, chocolate, and coffee combine to make this award winner one of Ontario’s best-selling craft beers.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This looks like some venerable Ontarian product from ancient "sous-Canada" which I should be aware of, somehow, though I’m not from Ontario. It looks like many, many grandfathers have gotten plenty drunk on this brew throughout the ages, but it’s completely foreign to me. It is a copper-brown colour with a really decent head as far as a canned brew goes. The aroma is soft artifical barley-ness that is certanly appealing but tips you off right away that it’s a macro. Flavour is chocolate and coffee in a fake manner; yet that doesn’t bother me too much. This is an unabashed macro, but highly drinkable, and worth seeking out.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2011
at 20:08
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
(can) clear amber colour with medium tan head; aromas of bread, caramel, roast; clean watery flavour with light bitter finish
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2011
at 10:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours a deep red-brown-cola colour with a big creamy tanned head. The retention is quite good and the creamy-foam lacing is great. Aromas of rusty malt, dark malt, mild coffee and chocolate. The mouthfeel is creamy and light, but then again, that is what is written on the can (mild, light body, full flavour). And full flavour it is ! Mild bitterness with chocolate, nut, roasted malt, caramel, molasses and a crisp finish. Hockley Valley Brewing recommends drinking this beer cool, not cold, around 10-12 degrees Celcius. The LCBO site recommends drinking this with BBQ beef, grilled salmon, brown rice or fried shitake mushrooms. Extremely refreshing for a dark ale, great flavours and well recommended.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jun 2010
at 16:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from matt7215. Thanks once more. Pours a dark ruby brown with a frothy beige head. Aromas of dark roasted malt and chocolate and citrus. Medium body with creamy/frothy carbonation. Flavor is chocolate, and barring some dark malt that’s it. Finishes mildly bitter and chocolate. It’s a mild brown ale, and all the chocolate makes it quite tasty. Damn good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2009
at 23:49
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
473ml can from Garthicus. Nose of some caramel and a bit of butter (diacetyl). Clear cherry brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is butter and some toffee. Might be pretty good without the diacetyl.
Tried
from Can
on 21 May 2009
at 20:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark brown color with a low tan head. Rich, sweet, malty and fruity aroma. toffee, a bit of coffee. Sweet dark malt flavor, with molasses and caramel, some fruit, and little hops. Very pleasant and mild, with complex malts, fruit. Full-bodied.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2008
at 03:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Appearance: Very dark redish brown. Little head. Aroma: Dark fruit. Roasted. Metallic. Taste: Roasted, burnt. Dark fruit. Malty. Slightly metallic. Info: 473ml can, 8/12-2007
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jul 2008
at 08:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
473 mL can from matt7215. Thanks! This is a brown ale? Huh. Wouldn’t have guessed when I tasted this during a Ratebeer site crash. Reddish brown pour with a medium frothy head. Grainy roasted malt aroma with hints of chocolate and coffee. Taste is very strong coffee with some grainy notes. A little thin but very pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2008
at 06:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Canned at RBESG 2007. An amber beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and bread as well as a light note of caramel. The flavor is weet with notes of straw and malt as well as a light note of straw, leading to a dry bitter and strawy finish. The body is thin.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2008
at 10:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can, at RBESG 2007 in Glasgow, Grand Tasting. Dark reddish brown colour. Aroma and flavour of moderately roasted malts. Quite nice.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2007
at 16:25