Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale
Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Spring|
Score
7.29
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There’s no denying that IPA is king of the craft beer world right now. The style is getting so popular that even the big brewers are attempting their own versions, while IPA sub-styles, like session IPA, double IPA, white IPA and black IPA, continue to be created and defined. Brown IPAs combine the caramel and nutty-biscuity flavors of a brown ale, with an American IPA-sized does of hops; it’s pretty straight-forward, but pretty delicious.
On to the beer...Durty is a big beer (8.4% abv, 55 IBU) packed full of big hops. We’ve used Polaris, a new German high alpha variety for bittering, followed by American hop icon, Nugget, for the flavor additions and finally, a boatload of Simcoe post-fermentation for dry-hopping. The malt selection isn’t too different from Old Brown Dog, but it’s a bit heavier on the nutty character and dark cocoa notes.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Deep brown pour with lots of head. Nutty malt and bit of citrus. Clean piney tang with chocolate and coffee. Really good change of pace.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, tropical fruits, citrus, pine resin, grass, hint of chocolate, hops. Flavour is moderate sweet with a medium bitter finish. Body is medium to full, excellent balance. A lovely smooth and heavy caramel nutty hoppy fruity Brown Ale.
Backlog --- Beer merged from original tick of Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale (2014) on 28 Jul 2014 at 12:39 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
0.33l bottle @ Hotel Room. This is a deeper colored brown one with a tall near fluffy light beige head. Smells almost more like an barley wine IMO. A really present malty sticky sweetness thats being backed up by a mild roastiness and chocolate. Really good smelling undoubtedly. It has a nice oily texture in the mouth and its about average on the carbonation. Chocolaty and cocoa-ish in the taste. Lots of nice bitter hops going on. Traces of licorice also. Really tasty and great with mac and cheese. 14.06.2015
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Angel's Trumpet Ale House, pours a hazy chestnut brown with a small beige head. Aroma broker out toasted nuts, bready malt and a hint of caramel. Flavour is robust, full of caramel, bready malt, toasted nuts and a dry malty finish. Well-balanced. Malt-heavy for the most part with just enough bitterness to dry this out. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Brown colour with frothy, beige head, leaving traces of lacing. Malty, hoppy nose with dark fruit, coffee, dark rye bread, chocolate, treacle, citrus peel, some liquorice and hints of resin. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of dark fruit, crisp-bread, black coffee, liquorice, chocolate, caramel, grapefruit and a generous resiny/citric bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a touch of sweetness, but overall fairly dry. Complex and tasty with a solid hop bitterness. Still in good balance. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Botella @Vivalabirra, Oviedo 18/06/2016 Color marrón, Aroma frutal. Sabor maltoso dulce. Cuerpo medio.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Mahogany beer with a tan head. Light grapefruit aroma. Caramel and light dark malt flavor with grapefruit. Medium bodied. Caramel and grapefruit linger with light pine.