Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from trade. Brown pour with a medium beige head. The aroma is strong with roaster grains and vanilla. The taste, like the aroma, is roasted grains and a big dose of vanilla. There is certainly a nutty character to the taste as well--could be pecans--but seemed more like hazelnuts to me. The palate seemed a bit thin and weak. The finish was long and sweet with lingering vanilla. Overall: decent quaff
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. Brown bottle poured into a glass. Clear medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is nuts, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is nuts and vanilla.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
American style brown ale with roasted pecan nuts by Lazy Magnolia, the leading craft brewery in the state of Mississippi. I cannot thank Lauren and Morgan enough for this precious 'state tick'... Thick and frothy, membrane-lacing, pale greyish white, regularly shaped, very stable head on a clear caramel brown beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of old caramel candy, dust, ground pecan nuts, moist toasted bread, hints of old dried orange peel, medlar, nougat, rusty iron, dried apricot, Ersatz chocolate, raw salsify, muesli. Sweetish onset with underlying minerality in spite of relatively soft carbonation, a slight metallic note too (rusty iron again), along with dried medlar and faint blackberry aspects; softly tingling carb, smooth and lightly oily, lean body. Nuttiness rules the middle, roasted pecan indeed with mild and soft bittersweetishness over a hard-caramelly core, very smooth and light-bodied, working towards a nutty-woody, toasty finish where restrained caramel sweetishness continues and a dash of leafy hops provide extra bitterness - avoiding 'classic' American hop bitterness, oddly, so that the ending feels like an English northern brown ale with toasted nuts rather than a 'true' American brown ale. Brown ale it is, in any case, a genre one does not see appear too often anymore - so this in itself is very welcoming to me; Lazy Magnolia clearly understood how toasted pecan nuts match the overall flavour profile of a classic brown ale, British or American. The metallic aspect could be a bit less and may likely annoy some consumers, but the overall flavour balance is right here, making for an easy drinker in a style totally different from the dominant IPA and APA idiom one constantly encounters these days in craft-minded countries. Solid enough and as said, a valuable state tick for me. Cheers guys!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle split at L6, thanks to Dave, 24/11/22. Moderately hazed golden to light amber with a decent off white cap that thins in time. Nose is pine needle, grassy, old skool vibes, melon, grapefruit. Taste comprises sweet malts, orange pith, caramel, pine nip, melon. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with balanced earthy hop bitterness. Old skool device ... it's okay if perhaps a touch on the sweet side.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle from Total Wine & More, St Petersburg, FL. reddish brown and clear with a tiny ring of off-white head. Looks very thin. Nutty aroma, slightly vinous, some honey. Sweet - way to sweet - taste, lots of pecan, chocolate malt. Turns slightly sour in the finish with berry notes adding to the aftertaste. Medium to heavy carbonation add zest to the thin body. It’s okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours oily black with a thin brown head. Aroma of chocolate. Taste has thin milky notes, more cocoa, some toasted nuts. Palate has more nuts on the nose, burnished malt. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, wee hours of 15/01/23. Deep amber with a good sized lasting beige head. Nose is Cola Cubes, dark malts, herb, biscuit, caramel. Taste comprises cheesecake base, herb, light gingersnap biscuit, salted caramel notes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light kick of booze. Passable number ... lacks depth and dimension for the ABV.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Wingman dave. A light hazed reddy amber coloured pour with a loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, nutty malts, raisin , light wood, light soap. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rasin, brown sugars, brown bread malts, Palate is semi sweet, mellow carbonation. Not bad.