Gillespie Brown Ale
Twisted Manzanita Ales in Santee, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Aroma of mildly roasted malt, caramel, nuts, chocolate, some coffee, hoppy notes. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet with a nice moderately bitter finish. Tasty American Brown Ale, and it hides its ABV well.
oh6gdx (50921) reviewed Gillespie Brown Ale from Twisted Manzanita Ales 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Canned (from Ales by Mail). Ambery brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma is nutty, some toasted malts, caramel, mild wood and some syrupy tones. Flavour is nutty, sweet malts, mild toasted notes, some alcohol, mild bitter wooden and herbal notes. Alcohol gets more evident as it warms up.
fonefan (84235) reviewed Gillespie Brown Ale from Twisted Manzanita Ales 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz. [ As Twisted Manzanita Gillespie Brown Ale ].Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, caramel, dark malt, sweet malt, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a long duration, caramel, dark malt, sweet malt, burnt caramel, light chocolate malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150806] 7-3-7-3-14
DSG (25968) reviewed Gillespie Brown Ale from Twisted Manzanita Ales 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Deep amber-brown. Aroma of malt, nuts, caramel. Sweet malty flavor with caramel, nuts, a bit of toast, a bit of alcohol, and a light bitterish hint. Medium-bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured up on tap at the Mesa AZ Brass Tap where it exhibits a clear brown body that has deep ruby red hues and supports a tan head. The aroma offers up roasted malts, chocolate malts and then a faint blend of minerals, an earthy sensation and some fruity esters. The taste delivers roasted malts, chocolate malts, thin bitter pine and faint grapefruit like hoppiness. The roastiness picks up crystal malts as well as a sliver of sweet dark fruity esters to midway and into the finish. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
From a 35.5 cl can. Deep, warm, autumny bronze brown colour with ochre edges, clear, bearing a thin, loose, pale yellowish beige head opening in instants and leaving only a very thin rim on the edge of the glass as well as a sparse, thin veil over the liquid’s surface. Aroma of a lot of toasted brown bread (quite sharply so, but nice), caramel cake, roasted pine nuts, dried figs, burnt wood, metallic hint of tinfoil, dry forest floor, dried orange peel, moist nutmeg, hints of brown rhum-like alcohol, very old dry cocoa powder. Clean, malty onset wild dried fruit notes, a hint of raisin, soft carbonation tingling finely on the top of the tongue, very supple, somewhat oily mouthfeel but thinner body than expected based on the ABV; very malty middle phase, very nutty and toasted with a sweet caramelly underside, getting the company of dry citrus peel- and slightly quinine-like, deep, drying hop bitterness, earthy and peppery, as well as noticeable, rhum-like alcohol, leaving an unmistakable warmth in the back of the throat, but it is the toasted brown bread flavour which lasts long after swallowing, quite agreeably so. Apart from the lack of head, things start off fine here, pleasant aroma for maltheads and pleasant onset, but then increasingly revealing itself as lacking a bit in malt body, which probably helps to explain why the alcohol is a bit more obvious than it could have been. Advertized as a brown ale but in that respect clearly too strong and - even for an American brown ale - a bit too hoppy, so I’ll go with the American strong ale characterization here (even though this term does not say a lot either, of course). Pleasant enough to motivate me to find out more about this brewery’s range.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Klare dunkel orange braune Farbe, fast kein Schaum. Geruch schokoladig, röstmalzig süß, Karamell. Geschmack nach Kaffee, bitter röstmalzig, Karamell, leicht alkoholisch.
caesar (10859) reviewed Gillespie Brown Ale from Twisted Manzanita Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Biernavigatie, BB 30th Oct 2015, large sample. Clear brown color, short frothy brown head. Aroma of toasted malts, bit cacao, some caramel, fruity yeast. Slight sweet in taste, toasted, caramel, bit bitter, bit sugary, touch of alcohol. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
25th May 2015
Can. Clear dark brown beer, good pale tan head. Palate is smooth with mild fine carbonation. Good brown malts, some cream and a little dry coffee. Whisper of paint, almost like it was barrel age induced. Dry and slight spicy finish. Tasty enough.