Peculiar Brown
Martha's Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Company in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.36
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt amber close to brown in color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that slid into the beer at a decent pace. Lace slid with the sips.
The aroma had a nice soft sweet roasty nuttiness rolling all about some caramel/toffee malts. Some chocolate and then some earthiness.
The flavor leaned towards the sweet side and letting the hoppiness escape into oblivion. It’s all about the malts in this one which leads into the aftertaste and finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine as well.
Overall, I wonder how many brown ales I actually have shoved down my throat over the years. Quite interesting the more I find in this book my buddy in New York sent me. Well, I guess I’ll be uploading the rest of these soon enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a thin light tan head with a retaining ring that laces and mahogany color. Aroma is mild dark malt-molasses. Taste is peat/burnt like Kathy’s cooking(…I represent that remark) dark malt-molasses/chocolate, nutty, secondary earthy hops bite. Medium body. OK carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
On cask at the brewpub with the Windy City Beerman? Muzzlehatch. First of all, I’m going to have to overhaul almost all of my old cask ratings after attending four days of a real cask festival. The beer should be clear, it tastes better that way. With all of the finings and yeast (some of it autolyzed perhaps) and what not, having dropped out, the flavor is not muddled. So this one wasnt "bright" as they say, but very muddy brown-pudding colored beer with a lasting dark beige head. Aroma is full of diacetyl and sticky toffee, some light roast/coffee notes. Flavor has an initial chocolate sweetness, but a pungent grapeskin like flavor shows up, followed by a sour yeast flavor that shouldnt be there. Gritty, muddy mouthfeel, some brown sugar on the end. This is a mess and I don’t think they should serve this one on cask if they are going to serve it in such poor condition.