Reviewed from notes.
Thanks Mike.
This was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a fairly dark brown color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at an even pace. Light stringy lace.
The aroma had a strong nutty sweet crispness followed by some rich roasty coffee beans and some milk chocolate notes. Light sweet grains with some cake-like quality came around.
The flavor yielded to the sweetness of it all pulling the grains towards the cake-like quality and then touching the coffee bean roast. Light aftertaste of the cake and then some of the coffee bean. Finished in the same way.
The feel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate. Pretty smooth along my tongue.
Overall, pretty good brown ale, I dig the idea of putting donuts in a brown ale, but this didn’t necessarily smell or taste like donuts to me. I’d still have this again.

Crisp brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall just tan head. Aroma of rich caramel, toffee, bunches of chocolate, a hint of coffee and a pungent bit of grain. Medium-bodied; Strong chocolately flavour, like a light donut (really) complete with the wheat and grain that produce the pastry and a subdued, yet noticeable alcohol and toastiness. Aftertaste is rich and relatively simple, but showing some nice flavours with the grain and chocolate the strongest, but there are some other flavours of toffee, cereal and a little alcohol. Overall, a nice and flavourful beer that holds true to the name on the can and shows relatively well, especially for the style, which I’m not usually a fan of. Worth getting if you can find it, especially if you like the style! I sampled this 50 cL can purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 10-December-2016 for US$2,19 sampled at home in Washington on 19-February-2017.

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 11/2/2016. Pours lightly hazy deep reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, dough, and toasted brown bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, coffee, nuttiness, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and light-moderate coffee notes; with good strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, toffee, dough, and toasted brown bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, coffee, nuttiness, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal hop and roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, dough, toasted brown bread, vanilla, light coffee/nuttiness, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light-moderate coffee flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 7.3%. Overall this is a very nice English brown ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light-moderate coffee flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Was hoping for more coffee, but there is a solid amount; and you do get some donut/frosting flavors as well. Really well done base brown ale to top it off. A very enjoyable offering.