Phil Brown Ale
Marshall Wharf Brewing Company in Belfast, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.81
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yespr (55501) reviewed Phil Brown Ale from Marshall Wharf Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
1 pint can. Pours hazy brown with a huge tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight breadish. Sweet caramelish. Toasted malt. Sweet and lingering caramelish malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at 3 Tides, since debut.
Think I’ve only had this once or twice. MW just has soooo many dark, mid-gravity, lightly smokey dark ales to choose from, even one as interesting as this gets lost in the shuffle. Like all of their dark ales, it pours with a moderately high to high clarity and the beige head recedes slowly to a ring.
Chocolate and hazelnut in the nose are dried out by light leafy, almost floral hoppiness and touches of roast and smoke phenol. No alcohol or flaws in the nose and much lighter than the Deep Purple.
The flavor of milk chocolate, caramel and dry, wood smoke all combine to produce the trademark rich and flavorful, yet well-attenuated maltiness this brewery does so well. Very little of the "grassiness" or "astringent roast" character that some of their scotch ales have. Medium bodied with a soft, mildly watery texture. Nuttiness and smoke linger, with traces of prune and espresso. As others have said, not your average brown ale, indeed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Novare Res, thanks Matt for helping me find this place. Comes to my table on the deck a dark reddish brown without much of a head before I set my nose atop it. Smells of caramel brown sugar and a hint of chocolate with a solid hit of smokey campfire. Lightly nutty flavor with darker sugars and caramel and a nice but never overpowering level of smoke. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet mouthfeel. Nice smokey brown ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
on tap-pours a light tan head and deep red color. Aroma is sweet medium malt with a sharpness. Taste is chocolate/peat, sweet medium malt with a sharpness-fruity. Towards medium body.