Come On Brown
Tall Poppy Brewing Company in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brown Ale - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
6.72
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bier4der (3351) ticked Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 5 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
An 'imperial brown ale' (or de facto a dark barleywine) of sorts brewed at Tall Poppy for kraddel's 10,000th rating event at Beerlovers Bar in Antwerp. Very loose and bubbly, pale greyish beige, thin head quickly reduced to as good as nothing, over a hazy, deep chocolate brown beer with misty red wine-burgundy hue. Aroma of walnuts, wet brown bread, brown rum, soaking wet tree leaves, caramel candy, treacle or indeed maple syrup, kahlua, glue and an unpleasant note of sewer water; vanilla has apparently already flown away. Sweet onset with sourish edge, fig juice, dates, pear, drenched in maple syrup stickiness with very soft carbonation bordering on flat, clearly undercarbonated even for this kind of beer; an astringent solventy and eventually boozy effect underlies a caramelly and nutty malt sweetishness enhanced by both maple syrup and cocoa, and evolves into a somewhat wry finish with rather hot rum-like alcohol and a herbal, tea-like accent, with solvents and booze dominating and pulling things out of balance and blotting the little vanilla aroma that was intended. Sticky, glueish, undercarbonated, unbalanced and too boozy, with too much unfermented sweetness and an off-putting H2S note to it: clearly something went technically wrong here, this beer contains too much maple syrup and alcohol for what it can carry. A pity, Tall Poppy has produced some fine brews in their few years of existence so far but this one did not make a very positive impression on me. Could have been so much more.
77ships (14506) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Kraddel! Draft glass @ Kraddel's 10K Madness. Pours bit flat-looking dark brown syrup, little in the way of head. Nose is burned bread, burned toast, bit watery due to carbonation brown sugar, dark malt syrup, almost bit sour. Taste is burned bread, malt syrup, almost acidic, unfermented sugar, cheap brown sugar water, in need of carbonation, flat basically, adjusts are lost. Didn’t feel 11 % ABV. Strange beer but one that makes perfect sense coming from Kraddel, too bad that all the adjuncts were lost & the whole didn’t properly carbonate etc. PS: Zeal & Ardor are a nice band.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught No head but faint tan rim; brown-black beer. Mix of caramel/toffee and ashes/tobacco; hints of liquorice. Dry-woody-liquorice, but also chocolate, cocoa. Much less sweet than the nose suggested, no toffee left in the mouth. Generous dark malts, much as in strong dark German beers. Feels only medium bodied, bit slick. Finish/aftertaste has a lot of wryness, woody. Not exactly a "quaffing" beer - the alcohol is improbably hidden, then jumps suddenly on the fore.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Tall Poppy - Come On Brown (by Tall Poppy Brewing Company):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
28/VII/18 - on tap, shared @ Kraddel's 10K event, Beerlovers Bar (Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2018-923) Thanks to the Ghent crew for sharing the glass!
Clear amber to hazelnut brown beer, no head. Aroma: lots of caramel, sweet, alcohol, sugary, some dried fruits. MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: very spicy, dry, lots of tobacco, some caramel, soft roast, lots of chocolate. Aftertaste: overripe banana, bitter touch, some chocolate, bit unpleasant.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Kraddel's 10k Madness, congrats to Dylan! Pun on Zeal & Ardor - Come On Down. Brown color with beige head. Aroma is fresh cocoa, chocolate, toffee, don't really get the pastry additions. Taste is coffee, light caramel, chocolate. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Tasty, and very well balanced, hides the alcohol extremely well!
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Come On Brown from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
brewed for the event surrounding my 10.000th review. This was one of the 10 beers produced for the event. The idea here was to showcase the natural aroma's of hazelnut, cocoa, maple syrup and vanilla. Close friend, and tall poppy brewmaster Jo Olluyn was the one I saw for for the job. Me myself ( AKA Siris About Beer ) and Jeroen (Dr. Beer ) took the opportunity to help making the recipe, and have our say in it. Making this, technically, a collab. All credits to Tall poppy tho ! Since no aromatics, extracts, or chemicals were used, aroma's of the said ingredients are more towards the background, and natural tasting. A beer that will surely age well ! This beer is named after the song 'Come On Down' by Zeal & Ardor Pours dark copperbrown, no real head. Smell is mild, dark bready malts. mild caramel. Some very minor notes of the hazelnut, but perhaps only if you know it’s there. Taste is medium-thick, tad sweet, hidden notes of maple syrup. Late aftertaste shows some hazelnut. Some risidual sugars are to be noticed. A Big thnx to all involved, on joining forces on this one !