Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale
(has 2 batches)
Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Spring|
Score
7.27
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Smuttynose is proud to introduce our eighteenth Short Batch Beer, "Durty," a brown IPA!
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.
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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Smak och doft av choklad, humle, malt, karamell, vanilj, laktris, nötter en aning jordig med lätt beska med smak av citrus. Mycket smakrik, bra balans på smakerna och trevlig beska.
Tried
on 13 May 2014
at 13:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Brown black pour with tan head and lace. Aroma is sweet malt, a touch of chocolate and hazelnut together with citrus hops. Flavor is light chocolate malt then a dose of citrus hops. A touch of floral/earthy undertones as well. Pretty hoppy and very tasty. Good balance between the hops and nutty/chocolaty brown ale attributes.
Tried
on 13 May 2014
at 11:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle bought @ Systembolaget. Pours deep reddish brown with a frothy goldenish beige head that slowly dissipates while leaving lots of spotty and sticky trace on the glass. Smell is malty and earthy with sweet dark bread, resinous wood, moist soil, grapefruit rinds, moist grass, pine needles, dark roast coffee and sticky caramel. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and earthy with toasted malts, sweet dark bread, burnt caramel, dark roast coffee, resinous wood, moist soil, grapefruit rinds, orange zest, moist grass, oily pine cones and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is round, oily bitter and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with roasted malts, dark bread, moist grass, pine cones, resinous wood, liquorice powder, dark roast coffee and grapefruit rinds. Sweet sticky caramel wrapped in resinous hops. Tasty...
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2014
at 14:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours hazy dark brown wit small light tan head. Clear aroma of malt, with fruity and hoppy touches. Bitter, hoppy and roasty flavour, with touches of malt, caramel and nuts. Fruity hints. Bitter and rough afteraste. Tastes more like a double brown ale than an ASA, but still quite good. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2014
at 14:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Deep brown liquid with medium light tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, pine, mango, tangerine and citrus. Taste is light sweet and light to medium bitter with notes of tangerine, chocolate, bread, cocoa and coffee. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2014
at 18:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from SB cons 2014-05-08 Göteborg AR: roasted malt, grape fruit, seville orange marmalade AP: dark ruby brownish body, stouthy cream brown steady head F: heavy bitterness, rich carbonation, rough roasted malt, citrus maramalde, finishes heavy bitter grapefruit juice
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2014
at 11:13
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Earthy peaty malt, nuts, light chocolate, and coffee aroma. Clear deep chestnut brown with a large tan head. Roasty charred malt, coffee, astringent nutty, and roasted herbal-rooty hops flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2014
at 14:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Clear mahogany colour, mid sized head. Spicy nose with licorice and chocolate. Mid sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Concentrated chocolaty spicy flavours. Caramel and dried grapefruit peels. Really bitter finish. Rich and satisfying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2014
at 09:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark nut brown color with orange highlights and a huge foamy tan head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was chocolate, malty, wood, fruity hops, melon, leather and tobacco. The flavor was bitter, roasty, malty and woody with notes of caramel, nut, floral hops and fruity hops followed by leather and tobacco, Very long finish. Medium body. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2014
at 15:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at stags head. Pours a murky brown with decent head. Nose is piney hops. Tastes of earthy bitterness, resin, pine, toast, and some grapefruit. Bitter palate a touch harsh bit still pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Apr 2014
at 16:14