Saint Botolph's Town
Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.06
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Dark brown with spongy tan head, soft coffee aroma, bitter coffee taste, fizzy with long bitter finish. Nice ale bordering on stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled May 2011. Aroma is fairly estery with hints of banana but a lot of figs, prunes and raisins. Medium toasted bread note with some sweet caramel aromas as well. Pours a fairly clear light brown with lots of ruby hues. Medium thickness dark tan head that steadily recedes leaving a thin film on top. No legs and only faint lacing. Flavor starts with a nice sweetness with some toasted bread, caramel, toffee and a light chocolate note. Mid palate you get quite a bit of fruit with some figs, prunes and raisins. Medium low bitterness and no hop flavor. Finish is a bit roasty with a touch of a spicy note. Some faint lingering esters in the finish as well. Finishes moderately dry. More chocolate notes as it warms. Light cardboard note in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium carbonation. Low grain astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall a surprisingly good brown ale, especially considering it is 2 and a half years old. Not much oxidation at all. The malt complexity is rather nice and changes throughout the glass. I wonder if I missed out by not drinking this earlier. I was really expecting a drainpour but I will be enjoying this bottle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
0.65l bottle from Craft Beer C.O, London. This one's deep brown in the glass with a medium sized quickly sidesticking brown top. On the nose I get a fantastic bourbon woody-like sweetness. To my knowledge this has not been barreled, but it smells fantastic! Lots of sweet chocolate and gentle roasted malts. There is a clear tone of alcohol and brown wood here also. A little bit of red berries here as well. A really nice aroma on this one. It has a average to soft carbonation level and a really soft oily to cloudy mouthfeel. I get chocolate, soft roasted malts and nuts up front here. A dark fruity undertone also, and it ends light dry in the mouth with hints of cognac, Christmas spices and some light acidic woody-sourness. Wish it has a bit more body, but the lovely aroma sticks. A fine one! 08.10.2012
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16th September 2011
Opaque dark brown beer. Small but tidy pale tan head. Semi dry and crispy palate. Mild minerals. Strong malt with a trace of bubblegum. A little spice and coffee. Malt turns creamy. A little hop balance but that’s all it does - provide bitterness. Lactose sweetness as the beer warms up. A complex brew, quite Belgian like. Tasty. Mild bitter linger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Lightly hazy mahogany colour, rich firm head. Fruity nose with strawberry and milk chocolate. Sweet with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Crystal malt and black currant, cocoa and salted treacle. Mid bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bomber from Nikki’s Liquors, Providence. Pours a hazy dark brown color with a medium sized medium brown head. Good head retention. Aroma of cocoa, caramel, nuts and a spicy finish. The taste is toffee malts, nuts, chocolate, cocoa and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied. Solid beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
650ml bottle. Clear dark brown colour with huge, frothy, lasting, moderately lacing, yellowish off-white head. Minimally sweet dark malty aroma with a nuttily touch, notes of dark berries. Taste is initially dry to bitter hoppy, minimally metallic, carbonation induced; with the carbonation fading the malty notes gain ground: minimally sweet, nuttily, hints of roast; lasting, minimally sticky finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, 5.9%. Yeasty, brown sugar, metal aroma. Dark brown colour, seems hazy. Small light brown head. The flavour starts off a bit yeasty, turning roasted and nicely spicy. Long roasted aftertaste with a hint of alcohol bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ Stephen’s house, courtesy of Stephen. Dark brown appearance with a light brown head. A bit nutty, toasty malty, caramel, chocolate aroma. Nutty, lightly smoky, roasty malty, caramel, cracker flavor with a bit of fruitiness on the finish. Not bad.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
650 ml bottle. Pours a deep red brown with light persistent head. Aroma of malts, caramel, and dark fruit. Flavors of roasted malt, vegetables, spice, and brown sugar. Very nice