Organic Dread Brown Ale
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing in Santa Cruz, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.45
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Tap. Pours clear hazel, minimal head and some lacing. Aroma is nutty, roasted, burned caramel. Flavor is medium sweet, nutty, coffee, a bit burned. Medium body, creamy. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown. Smells like yogurt. Very sweet and berry like. Quite spice and clove forward. like a steeped tea. Maybe creamy. Malt is dry and lovely. It’s nice. Not mind blowing
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bomber. Murky, thick brown with a hint of orange. Mild, mellow, minimal malt aroma. Sessionable, medium bodied. There is some soapy, earthy, bitter hop balance, which I think works well with the fruity malt tastes. Some mild chocolate and caramel flavor, but nothing that dominates the overall experience. A little thin and one-dimensional, but OK nonetheless.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottled. A hazy deep red beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as light notes of acidity and wood. The flavor is sweet combined with a slight acidity and light notes of berries and wood. The body is thin.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy yespr/Ungstrup. Pours a hazy dark brown with a dense and lacing light brown head. Lightly tart and fruity nose. Medium body, lightly tart and roasted maltiness. Bitter and unrefined finish. 290509
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Dark mahogany color, almost black; medium head. Strange aroma, dusty, corn cobs, light chocolate. It has some chocolate flavor, but also an underlying suspicious sourness, all ending with a bit too much bitterness. Nothing special.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From bottle, blind #21. Pours hazy dark brown with a small amber glare and a small tan head. Light fruity and yeasty aroma with a touch of roasted malt. Light annis seed spiced flavoured. Distinct citric to acidic flavoured. Spiced finish with a light acidic to citric touch.7-3-7-3-13=3.3
From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark brown with a small white head. Roasted caramelish and light liqourice aroma. Roasted caramel to breadish malt flavoured with a nice liqourice like note. Bitter and roasted breadish finish.6-3-7-3-13=3.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bomber. Dusty brown roasted ale aroma. Deep mahogany color with a decent tan head. Medium body with mild, creamy carbonation. Flavor is dark roasted malt, nearly toasted, with chocolate notes. It approaches a porter in character. There is enough bitter to keep the malt within reason. The bitter tends to build with time.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bomber pours dark brown with tan head and spotty lacing. The aroma moves from lightly roasted to highly roasted then to burnt malts. There’s also a faint stale maltiness usually noticed in organic brews. The taste is nice and roasty going from rich roasted malts, mild caramel malts and then to burnt malts. Taste almost Porter like. I do get a mild combination of hops and faint stale malts. Tasty brew. Lots of flavor for a brown.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Mahogony beer with a huge cafe au lait colored head. Roasty, nutty aroma. Caramel, coffee, roasty, nutty flavor. Slight hops. Fuller bodied, but easy to drink.