7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 10/10/2019. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep ruby red/copper/brown color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of coffee, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with big strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of coffee, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery, roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, brown bread/crust, coffee, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and no cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering hop/roasted bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly crisp/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 5.9%. Overall this is an excellent American brown ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Great soft feel and not aggressively bitter. Great clean and nicely rich dark/roast/Munich malt complexity; with balanced earthy English hops, and restrained fruity yeast. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example as expected. No complaints.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a clean fairly dark brown color with a rim of a white little head that fell off at a decent pace. Light lace.
The aroma had some semi-sweet to roasty nuts, somewhat like pecans and then touches along some roasted malt, somewhat like caramel.
The flavor was somewhat sweet through the previously mentioned aromas with a fair roasty to sweet sort of aftertaste. Quick malty sort of semi-roasty finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Decent carbonation. ABV felt good.
Overall, worthy brown ale of having again.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sample at Bridge Street Tap Room. The beer pours brown with a medium light beige head that recedes quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Roasted malt, caramel and nuts in the nose. Light to medium body with flavors of caramel malt and roasted nuts. The finish is roasty with a malty aftertaste. Decent overall.