Brekle's Brown

She pours a semi-dark brown and leaves the same colored body with a slim white fingered head that dies and leaves some light lacing trimming the top of the glass and slightly clinging to it. The smell is mostly dark fruity, but there’s some malty nuttiness coming through. The taste is mainly sweet through the dark fruits, however, I do get the nuts come out, smooth fruity/almost raisin-like aftertaste; a slight fruity yet watery finish. The palate has a light to medium body that’s pretty sessionable, hmmm... carbonation is very smooth, whoah, I wasn’t expecting this to be so smooth for an American Brown as I thought there would have been some sort of added \"hops\" to it like a normal American Brown. Oh well, no worries. Overall, this is a good Brown Ale that ends up kinda reminding me of Right Brain’s and Schmaltz’s Hebrew Nut Brown Ale, sorry to compare to whoever might be reading this, but I’m glad I found at least three \"brown ales\" now that smell and taste pretty much the same, I’m pretty sure I’d have this again.

355ml bottle, beer gift from Finn, thanks. Frothy, fawn-coloured head, mostly diminishing. Clear, orange-brown body appearance. Nose is ripe orange and caramel joined by a basement touch. Flavours of brown malts mingled with raisin, pumpkin and citrus. Bittersweet ending. Medium bodied. Interesting blend, partially successful (Tromsø 10.01.2014).

Bottle: Nose is strong malt leading to toffee, apples, leading to some citrus tones. Well balanced nose for a brown ale. Taste is malt, apples, through to sweet brown ale tones then a citrus IPA ish note before back to a brown ale. Very sweet in the finish. This was an interesting attempt to do an American style Brown Ale, but does not work for me.

Draft at a tasting event. From notes. Citrus and caramel with a decent tropical fruit kick. A little bitter grapefruit in there too. Not too bad.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Anchor Brekle's Brown (by Anchor Brewing Company (Sapporo)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

23/XII/13 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from BierNavigatie (webshop, NL) @ home - BB: VII/2014 (2013-1170)

Little cloudy red brown beer, huge irregular creamy head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: mocha, caramel, quite some chocolate, sweet, malts, sugary, strawberry touch, mocha. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little sour, some caramel, toast, mocha, pretty bitter, bread yeast, reminds a lot about Rochefort yeast, little sweet. Aftertaste: bitter hops, mocha, caramel, burnt toast, yeasty touch, again the Rochefort resemblance is striking. Slightly sour touch. Can't believe that this is brewed with Citra. Not sure this is the best use for that hop, but it's a remarkably pleasing beer anyway. :-)

Bottle shared by Cuso, thank you! Aroma raisin, dried fruit, very nice. Hazy ruby-brown colour. Taste is caramel, light fruity, light light woody. Interesting brew.

(Bottle, 0.355 l - BBE 9/2015, from Alko, 20131129) The beer poured dark brown and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had malts, caramel, fruitiness and molasses. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, caramel, molasses, raisins and bitterness. Afteraste had caramel and bitterness. Weird brew. Tastes a bit like oxidised bitter even though this should be a quite fresh bottle.

Bottled Alko. Clear deep copper color, steady beige head. Caramel, some faint hoppyness, perhaps a bit toffee. Light to medium-bodied, fizzy. Coffee, toasted toffee, nutty and bready. Not very sweet. Some lingering bitterness in the aftertaste. Somewhat a bit too simple for my liking.

Comes with a dark brown color and a very small tan/dirty head. The aroma is sweet along with some maltiness. There is also some chocolate which is very gentle, but without the roasted aroma often accompanying it. Taste is bitter, roasted and bitter, although not so much so in the finish. The bitter aftertaste stays with you for a long time. All in all, a nice brew, not strong and very drinkable.