The Brother Sean (2024)
Anspach & Hobday in Croydon, Greater London, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Series|
Score
7.07
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Based on our original Porter & Stout Porter recipes developed a decade ago, The Brother Sean brings together the traditions of two great brewing nations, Belgium and the United Kingdom. A robust base of English grown, malted and kilned barley is fermented with an expressive Belgian yeast. The result is a bold, complex beer with layer upon layer of roasted coffee, chocolate and dark fruit notes, balanced with delicate spice aromas and a full, rounded body.
Enjoy this beer fresh as a toast to our first 10 years, or age it throughout the next.
Recipe variation on the original release from 2014.
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Nisse666 (17550) reviewed The Brother Sean (2024) from Anspach & Hobday 4 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Big bottle Porterfestivalen 2025-11-15 Göteborg
AR: thin, dry, raisins
AP: dark brown, creamy sand brown lid
F: thin, dry, raisins
EvNa (5983) reviewed The Brother Sean (2024) from Anspach & Hobday 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Black, light brown head. Aroma: Roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, burnt toast, earthy. Taste: Roasted malt, coff and dark chocolate notes, earthy. Hints of dark fruit. Malty with a nice floral hop bitterness in the background Nice typical English Stout.
cagarvie (39800) reviewed The Brother Sean (2024) from Anspach & Hobday 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
keg at the Great Exhibition 2025 ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet ovaltine woody caramel chocolate roast malts nose ...soft wood chocolate ..earthy ovaltine
gave a cheers!
Reubs (35338) reviewed The Brother Sean (2024) from Anspach & Hobday 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at The Hope, Carshalton 29/11/2024 Dark sweet and roasted malty with notes of chocolate and some coffee, brown sugar, liquorice, dark fruit, dark malty finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brother Sean 2024 on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:27 - Score: 7. Original review text: Dark sweet and roasted malty with notes of chocolate and some coffee, brown sugar, liquorice, dark fruit, dark malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at The Hope, Carshalton ... where's your fucking beer festival ? 29/11/24. Light black with a khaki head that clears to a swirl. Nose is dark malts, spice, herb, aniseed, chocolate. Taste comprises dark malts, spice, liquorice, chocolate, burnt toffee, charr, roasted bite. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Okay but lacking depth of flavour for the ABV.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at The Hope, Carshalton. Aroma is sweet, liqour. Molasses. Slightly sour edge. Medium bitter. Espresso. Sweet boozy and fruit edge. Creamy chocolate. Gains bitterness. Medium bodied. Creamy. Soft carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Nice but not OTT.
Marko (21878) reviewed The Brother Sean (2024) from Anspach & Hobday 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at Prague Beer Fest 2024. Blackish body, off-white head. Coconut and oaky notes in the aroma. Coconut-driven taste, nice smokey notes, if slightly beany, dry and bitter finish I guess. Better than the sum of its parts!