Brekle's Brown
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.88
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Brekle’s Brown has a coppery brown color and unusual depth of flavor with hints of citrus which makes for richness and complexity without heaviness. The classic, all-malt, single-hop American brown ale.
Trivia: in 1871 brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco from Germany. He purchased an old beer-and-billiards saloon near Russian Hill and transformed it into the little craft brewery that — twenty-five years later — would be renamed Anchor.
Trivia: in 1871 brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco from Germany. He purchased an old beer-and-billiards saloon near Russian Hill and transformed it into the little craft brewery that — twenty-five years later — would be renamed Anchor.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Location: 12 oz bottle from World Market - Houston Galleria, 10/9/13, Rating #3232
Aroma:The nose has roasted malts, sweet fruit, caramel, and brown sugar
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a frothy beige head and sheeting lace
Flavor: Tastes medium sweet, lots of caramel, some lighter roast and brown sugar, mild hops
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a smooth, slick feel,and a soft carbonation
Overall Impression: This is a pretty nice brown ale. There's a nice mix of malty components here. It's pretty sweet, and could probably use a little more hop balance, but it is a solid beer.
Aroma:The nose has roasted malts, sweet fruit, caramel, and brown sugar
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish-brown color with a frothy beige head and sheeting lace
Flavor: Tastes medium sweet, lots of caramel, some lighter roast and brown sugar, mild hops
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a smooth, slick feel,and a soft carbonation
Overall Impression: This is a pretty nice brown ale. There's a nice mix of malty components here. It's pretty sweet, and could probably use a little more hop balance, but it is a solid beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2013
at 17:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at The Fiddler, Den Haag. Poured a cloudy murky brown colour with a thin off-white head. The aroma is malt yeast and fruit. The flavour is medium bitter with lots of roasted malt, liqourice, red berry fruit and alcohol on the smooth but slightly alcoholic palate. A super beer but needs more chewy malt and nuts!
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2013
at 13:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home, from BOE, 06/09/13. Pours clear chestnut brown with a moderately sized light tan head. Nose is earthy, dark malts, light pepper, toffee, brown sugars. Taste comprises caramel malts, background hops, brown sugar, caramelised pecans, trace of cocoa. Medium bodied, fine carbonation. Decent flavoursome brown.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2013
at 06:26
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Herber, eher wässrig malziger Antrunk. Nussig schokoladig, weich, es kommen unerwartet sogar Hopfenaromen hervor. Harmonisch aber nicht vollmundig, die Malzigkeit wird intensiver. Zum Ende wässrig. 11/9/8/9/9/9
Tried
on 06 Aug 2013
at 12:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml bottle from Ales by Mail
BBE 07/2014 - Pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma of sweet syrupy malts, chocolate, hints of coffee and citrusy hops. Taste is malty, chocolatey and syrupy with notes of sweet caramel and faint hints of citrus. Finish is sweet, caramely and malty with some toffee notes. Okay, quite sweet brown ale.
BBE 07/2014 - Pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma of sweet syrupy malts, chocolate, hints of coffee and citrusy hops. Taste is malty, chocolatey and syrupy with notes of sweet caramel and faint hints of citrus. Finish is sweet, caramely and malty with some toffee notes. Okay, quite sweet brown ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2013
at 07:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Rating No.5100
Bottled 355ml. -from Za Popen’t Pivoteka, Ljubljana. Cloudy amber/brown coloured, small to medium sized pale beige head, malty and light touch of caramel in the nose. Sweet malty, dried fruits and caramel with mild notes of spices in the finish. Also some mild hops presence. Better than Humming Ale but not much.
Bottled 355ml. -from Za Popen’t Pivoteka, Ljubljana. Cloudy amber/brown coloured, small to medium sized pale beige head, malty and light touch of caramel in the nose. Sweet malty, dried fruits and caramel with mild notes of spices in the finish. Also some mild hops presence. Better than Humming Ale but not much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2013
at 15:11