Well apparently this is not retired because I got a sixer of this at a pretty new liquor store pretty recently. Cloudy brown color with beige head. Aroma is really malty with dark fruit notes in it. Taste is pretty much what you would expect from the smell. Malty with caramel and subtle chocolate undertones.

Tap at OTH. A nice change from the regular brown ale version. Pours ruby/brown with light mocha head. Aroma was malty, dark fruits, bready notes and nice roasted malts. Taste, some banana came forward as it warmed up, light roasted malts and caramel. Good stuff.

Pour is a very dark brown with a huge head. Aroma is bready and roasty. Flavor is roasted nuts with malts and a chocolate backbone. Goes down smooth with no bitterness or burn. Pretty good for a brown ale and just enough to put this one over the top.

06 Brewer’s Choice Brown Special Ale-12 oz bottle-Best Enjoyed Before July 06-pours a creamy tan head with dark amber color. Aroma is nutty, malt. Taste is nutty, roasty, malt, maybe dark fruit. Good occasionally, OK carbonation.

2005 bottle. I wonder what were the choices given to the brewer that he chose a brown ale??!! I can just imagine. . ."Well, it’s time for you to choose a beer, would you like to make a Trippel, dubble, maybe a Double IPA or a barleywine, how bout an Imperial Stout or a Dortmunder??" "I think I’ll brew a brown ale!!!" Haha, whatever. . .His choices were probably more like, "brown ale, pale lager, APA, IPA". Ok, ok enough of that.
Pour is a clear, dark, chocolate brown body, very fine bubbles rising rapidly to form a one-finger off-white head, with no lacing, and little retention. Aroma of light yeast, toffee, minerals and soft milky chocolate. Hints of flavorful, fuzzy, earthy green hops as well. Flavor begnis full of toffee and chocolate, light, sticky molasses/brown sugar and lots of crystal malt on the finish. English hops are flavorful, and quite restrained, little to no bitterness. Some mild fruitiness, a bit of nuttiness and touches of buttercream towards the end. Medium body with no wateriness. Pretty hard, filtered American mouthfeel, too much carbonation at first. For all of the full flavor, it’s only moderately complex. Well-made but very safe, as jay says.

Thanks to Matta for this one! Good tan head that forms over a deep Garnet colored body. Clean yeasty aroma with some light malt. No faults, no surprises in the flavor, just clean light sweetness with an uneventful palate. Decent but this stays in very safe territory.