Bellaire Brown
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - American Regular|
Score
6.33
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Bellaire Brown is our flagship Brown Ale. Full-flavored with notes of sweet caramel, chocolate, and toasted malt, Bellaire Brown is balanced with a mild and earthy hop quality. This ale is dark and rich with a medium body. It’s hardly classifiable as a brown, but is certainly considered a delicious masterpiece.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/17/2015. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep reddish brown color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted brown bread, nuttiness, light chocolate/cocoa, light berry/fruits, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted brown bread, nuttiness, light chocolate/cocoa, light berry/fruits, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted brown bread, nuttiness, light chocolate/cocoa. and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and slightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good English brown ale style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2016
at 19:41
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft at Churchkey. Clear amber brown color, beige head. Aroma of toasted brownie with light coconut. Taste is cocoa, coconut, light body.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2016
at 15:40
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle tasted on the 03/05/2016. Dark brown cola color with medium white foamy head. Aroma of caramel, honey and nuts. Taste of nuts, caramel, roasted malts, brown sugar and some licorice. Aftertaste is dry and lightly sweet. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2016
at 05:35
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 5
Overall 4
Industry tap. Dark like a yuengy. Nice brown beer smell. Comes across like a milder stout with just a tad of medicinal bitterness. A hair of co2 in there, but not much. Perhaps a little rude on the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2016
at 12:19
7/10
Tried
on 19 Dec 2014
at 21:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This brown ale poured a deep, dark amber colour with a frothy, white head. Scents include caramel, honey and hay. First swig was smooth with medium/low carbonation and flavours of caramel, roasted malt and a light coffee flavour. Finish was malty and sweet with light roasted caramel.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2014
at 20:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured from a 12oz bottle. Aroma is fairly malty with quite a bit of toasted bread and nuttiness. Light roast character and faint caramel. I don?t really pick up any hops or alcohol in the aroma. Pours a nice, fairly clear brown color with some ruby highlights and a small, moderately thin, tan head that exhibits decent retention as it recedes to the edges. Moderately high amounts of lacing but not really any legs. Flavor has a medium sweetness with moderate toasted bread and nutty notes. Medium light caramel with light roast and chocolate. Faint notes of fig and prime with light notes of raisin. Medium low to low bitterness without more than faint hop flavor. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, this isn?t a style I usually reach for and it?s not the best example of the style, bit it is a nice, easy drinking beer. Lots of make character, but I expected a bit more hop presence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2014
at 19:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Mmmmm.....more notes found and a possible all time favorite American Brown Ale of mine.
Here we go:
I poured this into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice ruddy brown color with a one finger white foamy head that spider-webbed as it went down. The lacing was there and trickled for the most part.
The smell was nutty and malty.
The taste was a nice nutty sweet maltiness running about my tastebuds and reminding me of a time I spent in Michigan.
The palate had a nice creaminess running about my mouth and tongue and had a decent sessionability about it as well.
Overall, in my opinion, this was a great American Brown ale well worthy of having again and well worthy in Autumn.
Here we go:
I poured this into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice ruddy brown color with a one finger white foamy head that spider-webbed as it went down. The lacing was there and trickled for the most part.
The smell was nutty and malty.
The taste was a nice nutty sweet maltiness running about my tastebuds and reminding me of a time I spent in Michigan.
The palate had a nice creaminess running about my mouth and tongue and had a decent sessionability about it as well.
Overall, in my opinion, this was a great American Brown ale well worthy of having again and well worthy in Autumn.
Tried
from Can
on 19 May 2014
at 13:47
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Cask Pub & Kitchen and drunk at home. Dark brown beer with thick beige head. It has a touch of sourness, some brown malt, not much hop, some milk chocolate. Not sure I like the little touch of sourness on it. I mean it’s not a Flemish Brown is it?
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2013
at 10:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Amber-burgundy body, not much of head, some oily residue. Cherry Amber malt tones, some smooth caramel too. Very British yeast nuances, soft and raisiny. Pretty easy to drink at, but not really my favorite example of the style. Malty, lots of caramel flavor. OK, certainly a lot of flavor and well in the Brown Ale style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2013
at 19:37