Growler shared by radagast83 at the DC Local Tasting on 8/16/2014. Dark brown with light off-white head. Aromas of toffee, caramel, maple. Tastes of roast, caramel, toffee, light chocolate. Medium body with a dry finish. Medium carbonation. A little tweaking and this could be a promising brown ale. 7/4/7/4/14

Re-rate. 4 oz pour on draft at Caboose on 7/2/2015. Listed as Caboose Brown Ale. Dark brown with beige head. Aromas of caramel, toffee, light roast. Tastes of roast, caramel, toffee. Medium body with a dry finish. Seems like it’s been improved since my last rate. 7/4/8/4/16

Growler shared by radagast83 at the DC Local Tasting on 8/16/2014. Hazy yellow with light off-white head. Aromas of light floral notes and pine. Tastes of floral notes, citrus, pine, light caramel. Medium body with a dry finish. Medium-low carbonation. 7/3/7/3/14

Re-tried at Caboose on 7/24/2015, 4 oz pour on draft. Pretty good all around, seems like they’ve fine tuned the recipe. 7/4/8/4/15

32oz growler pours a hazy orange with cloudy, white head. Nose is pithy, heavy citrus, heavy pine, pine sol too, mild candy. Flavor has a bit of vodka/bleach at the outset but that fades away, the soap comes after, pine too, some grapefruit. Bitter finish.

32oz growler pours a clear, dark brown with some cloudy, white head. Nose is sweet, mapley, brown sugar, a little cakey, some vanillin, caramel. Flavor is very distinctly maple, sweet brown sugar, a little birch, some rootbeer. Clean finish.

A very put together brown ale. Roast malt, with some light hops. Some dark chocolate. Light bitter finish. Some caramelized malt. Growler shared by Radagast.

Draft sample at the brewery during growler hours - construction starts next week, official opening in a few months. Poured a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Aroma was light toasted malts, some nutty roasted character. Flavor had light dark chocolate, some bitter notes, a touch nutty. Relatively creamy.

Draft sample at the brewery during growler hours - construction starts next week, official opening in a few months. Poured a medium orange-amber color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was tropical fruit notes, juicy. Intense hop notes. Flavor was tropical fruit notes, fresh NZ hop notes. I hope the second keg I got a growler of this from isn’t too bitter.

Draft sample at the brewery during growler hours - construction starts next week, official opening in a few months. Poured a cloudy yellow color - pretty vibrant with a large white head. Aroma was bitter orange peel, the coriander is strong in this particular beer, perhaps a bit overpowering. Flavor was about the same - nice wheat notes, citrus zest, with a large amount of coriander.