Nova Scotia Style Brown Ale
Alexander Keith's Fine Beers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Brown Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.52
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Brown pour with thin off white head. Very sweet aroma, caramel, honey and cinnamon. Very sweet flavour, more caramel and honey. No hop in the aroma and very little in the finish. I would not call this balanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at Sander’s place in NYC. Pours clear brown with a soft, foamy head. Dark sugar, caramel and toast in the nose. Pretty sweet flavor, caramel sugar, sweet bread, faint leaves. Medium bodied with light to average carbonation. Sweet, almost syrupy finish, more caramel, sweet toast, mild ripe fruits, and faint brown sugar. The sweetness is a bit cloying but the beer’s still drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
bottle - Pours clear dark amber with a light tan head and a mild caramel malt aroma. It tastes of sweet, lightly toasted caramel malt with minimal hops. This medium bodied brew is overly sweet and drinkable but underwhelming.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Grabbed a six pack of this in Portsmouth, NH. Used a pint. Thin white head, light lace. Nose is a weak roasted malt. Taste is very standard Brown. Caramel and brown sugar. But something in the taste isn’t right. Has a strange flavor I can’t quite figure out. Like a bad syrup. It’s not a terrible brown ale however, I wish I hadn’t gotten a six pack of it. Below average at best.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Bottle @ home. Dark brown appearance with a foamy, light brown head. Nutty, caramel malty, somewhat bitter, mass produced macro aroma. Toasty, nutty, caramel malty, bitter, kind of nasty, macro flavor. I really get that nasty macro flavor in this beer. Gross.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle. Toffee malt and grass aroma. Medium brown color with moderate head. Very sweet brown sugar and light bitter grass flavor. Not so great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle pours amber with tan head. Pretty light colored body for a brown. The aroma is sweet with fruity esters as well as earthiness and roasted malts. The taste is similar with ripe red apple and cherry like sweet fruity esters notes rolling into mild levels of roasted malts and faint earthiness. Pretty darn slick and sweet for a brown.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I grabbed this and walked up to the register today, but what the hell lets try it. The bottle says this is a Nova Scotia style brown ale, brewed in St Louis MO. Pours a deep reddish copper with a stingy off white head that dissipates rather quickly. Smells like melted caramels and maybe brown sugar. Smells fairly one dimensional. Taste is sweet malty and caramelly almost to much caramel like it some sort of fake flavoring. Slightly tart with hints of dark fruit and a mineral taste that distracts me. Lighter side of carbonation than I was expecting only intensifies the sweetness of this beer. Sweet sticky mouthfeel with a medium body. I can’t bring myself to finish this one, feeding the septic tank in 3 2 1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Brown. Buttery, caramel, semi dry, some diacetyl. Not bad, quenching, drank well with some leftover chinese food but nothing special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Half Time. Pours dark ruddy brown with a creamy 3 finger light tan head. Aroma of sweet, more than mildly roasted malt with some herb/hop presence. It is more sweet than bitter. I hope this is not what is considered balanced, as it’s definitely short on bitter to me. Sort of a thin, rough Newcastle Brown? Drinkable.