Dougs Colonial Ale
Heavyweight Brewing Company in Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.86
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours caramel brown tan head. Nose/taste of dough, caramel, paper and toffee. Medium body. Overcarbed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Vintage 2007? - Hazelnut and some dark toasted malts. Clear copper with a decent beige head. Sweet nutty notes and caramel. Over-carbonated, but held up well for the years. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 9
Pours clear brown , small white head . Smell is sharp malty . Bit bitter . Taste is dark aromatic malts , chocolate , bit sweet . Very overcarbonated . Some sharp malts in the taste as well . Bit earthy , some spices . Earthy in the back . Accept for the overcarbonation, it is quite nice !
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle from Dorwart, drunk on 9/30/07 at about 18 months of age.
I’d love to know the story behind the brewing of this beer, as there’s a lot more in here than just a caramel and chocolate malted brown ale. For starters, there’s the question of the yeast. The beer tastes borderline Belgian. No doubt this could be attributed to a bottling line infection, but as far as I know, those always end up causing massive diacetyl bombs, and this had no diacetyl to speak of. More likely it was brewed with house yeast and some other type of adjuncts were introduced, lending a light amount of wild yeast, accounting for the very dry esters and light clove and pepper-like phenols.
The beer has continued to attenuate, as the carbonation built up quite heavily in my bottle, gushing out lightly upon opening. The flavor was very, very attenuated, not overly so, IMHO, but to the point that you know it wasn’t this dry when fresh. Still, the dryness and light "Belgian" nature combine to make a very drinkable beer that incorporates flavor and aroma profiles you rarely come across in Belgian styles. A very interesting graininess, honey, maple, apples and green raisins, with light caramel lingering and bits of roast lingering. After allowing it to warm and breath, it drinks down nicely, but the esters do give it a slight vaporous quality and there is some fusel-like activity on the finish. Intentional or not, I like the unique character of the beer and enjoyed drinking it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Light brown color. Aroma and flavor have coffee. It isn’t an outstanding beer but about as good as a brown ale can get.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
RBSG 2007 Grand Tasting. Clear golden body with a small frothy white head. Sweet malty aroma. Fizzy light chocolate and malt flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from The_Epeeist; Nose of coffee and smoked malts; hazy brown with a huge beige head; flavor of coffee and smoke.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750 bottle. Poured brown with a small head into a wine glass. Just sightly translucent . Aroma is strong - all roasted coffee. Taste is a mix of oatmeal and coffee with a slight (I’ll give Frumpty Dumpty credit for pointing this out) Smacks cereal type taste (this was more present on tap though). Leaves a roasty aftertaste, medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at open house, and again later from the bottle - kind of a burnt copper color, with a small ring of off-white lace - semi-dry aroma of roasted nuts, cookie dough, light cocoa - the flavor is even more dry than the aroma (surprising for the style, but not unpleasant at all) - smokey, with notes of toffee, hazelnuts - a little thin on the tail end, but otherwise a solid ale.