Brown Ale
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
5.89
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The Brown Ale is a traditional beer related to the first beers ever brewed commercially. Brewed with an interesting blend of malts, including pale two-row Harrington, Metcalfe, and Maris Otter malt, Caramel, Munich, and roasted Carafa malts, the Brown Ale shines with a deep mahogany luster. The malt flavor is complex and deep as well, with notes of biscuit, nut, and caramel. With moderate hop bitterness, a deep malt body, and a fruity ale fermentation character, the Samuel Adams Brown Ale satisfies the soul and doesn’t overwhelm the tongue.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle. Caramel malt aroma with hints of fruity ester? Dark reddish amber color with a white head that filmed and ringed. Thin bodied. Mild carbonation. Bread, caramel and nut. Very little bitter follows. Thin enough to be thirst quenching. The finish is mild malt, with a very slight touch of bitter. It’s really quite refreshing in the late hours. Probably not in the heat of a California summer day. It’s going extremely well with smoked herring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2007
at 00:43
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Caramel in color with a light tan head. Aroma is sweet malt, honey, floral hops and molasses. Flavor has the bite of hops, but not much of their flavor. Rather sweet, honey malt flavor with molasses, too. Nice body for a brown. An inoffensive beer, nothing special.
Tried
on 26 May 2007
at 02:18
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
This is not one of Sam Adams’ best and I’m a big fan. It had no aroma. It loooked like tea with a decent head. It had very little flavor. Amazingly, the spicy cinnamon finish was more pleasurable than drinking it. This wasn’t a good beer and it definitely shouldn’t pretend to be a brown ale.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2007
at 20:07
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle, date-notched "May." Well, a six of Sam is usually welcome in my house, and the price was right (under $6), so here it is. Pours a medium dark brown color under a rocky tan head. Head shows some good tenacity. Smell has plenty of caramel roasted malts to it, with a bit of hop. Taste, though, just doesn’t do it for me. Way too nutty, with bitterness that latches on to the back of the tongue. This is on top of a nice malt base, mind you. Hops are actually too sharp for this profile; not agressive and citrussy, like a pale ale, but just fighting against the malts with the wrong gloves. Am I wrong here, or does this just rub me the wrong way; after all, I liked the concept of the Patriot pack if not the execution; or maybe I shouldn’t have tried this after a slice of smoked Gouda cheese. Will try another bottle later.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2007
at 21:54