Nut Brown Ale
Motor City Brewing Works in Detroit, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.51
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mcberko (47456) reviewed Nut Brown Ale from Motor City Brewing Works 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Motor City, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and dry bready notes. Flavour is along the same lines, with bready malt and a hint of caramel. Dry and lacking complexity. Meh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Thanks Mike.
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a soft burnt amber almost brown color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Mild stringy lace.
The aroma had some sweet to roasty nuts with a gentle clean maltiness of some caramel to toffee tones. Light earthiness, some grassiness. Little bit of some piney-ness.
The flavor kept the roasty nuts up front and blended the sweet and earthy portions to the ebb and flow of the tastes rolling along my tongue. Not much of an aftertaste. Nice piney/earthy and nutty clean smooth sweet finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine and the ABV felt as projected by the brewer.
Overall, really nice brown ale well worthy of wanting again.
superspak (10160) reviewed Nut Brown Ale from Motor City Brewing Works 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 11/19/2014. Pours slightly hazy deep reddish brown color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, herbal, light fruitiness, and yeast/roasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/yeast ester notes; with good strength. Taste of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, herbal, light fruitiness, and yeast/roasted earthiness. Fair amount of herbal/roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, herbal, light fruitiness, and yeast/roasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, balance, and solid robustness of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/yeast ester flavors; with a good roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.2%. Overall this is a very good English brown ale style. All around good complexity, balance, and solid robustness of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tessic (2342) reviewed Nut Brown Ale from Motor City Brewing Works 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This brown ale poured a very deep brownish red colour with a nice big brown coloured, foamy head. To the nose there are scents of vinegar, roasted malt, nuts, caramel and cocoa. First sip was a tiny bit over-carbonated but not to the annoying level. This gave the beer a slightly thin mouthfeel. Flavours of roasted malts, nuts and smoke were in the forefront. Finish was smokey and roasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz bottle. Pours brown with little head. Aroma is pretty much just roasted coffee. Flavor is a typical brown ale, with roasted coffee and earthiness. Okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
on tap-pours a tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is nutty, medium/dark malt. Taste is nutty, medium/dark malt-peat/ashy, faint earthy hops. Malty.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Nut Brown Ale from Motor City Brewing Works 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Deep brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head with large bubbles rising from the side. Aroma of nuts (you guessed it), roasted malt, some coffee scents and even a bit of sweetness. Medium-bodied; Strong malty flavour with a good nut backbone and some mild hops still detected. Aftertaste shows some nuts and mild malt - nothing spectacular. Overall, a good beer with some nice flavours - nothing amazing, but not a horrible brown ale. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 25-December-2007.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Deep reddish-brown body, thin/medium creamy off-white head. Rich chocolatey aroma, earthy, with hints of caramel and grape. The body is chocolatey and quite toasty, with light sweetness and a bitter, earthy finish. Rather light, though. Decent, but nothing special.