Style: American Brown Ale
State/Country: Florida
ABV: 5.5%
Serving Type: 12 oz Bottle
Look: 8.5
Chestnut brown color, thick light brown head with nice lacing.
Smell: 9.5
Chocolate, caramel, roasted malt, butterscotch, and an interesting herbal/minty hop aroma.
Taste: 9
Up Front: Caramel and sweet malt, balanced by the hops in the middle, and finishing with pleasant nuttiness. There is also a lingering roasted flavor...and it hangs out for a while.
Mouthfeel: 9
Light body with medium carbonation, and oily finish from the oats
Drinkability: 8.5
Highly quaffable!
Overall Score: 8.9
Value: 9
Cost/12 oz serving: $1.96
Overall Impression:
This beer has an insanely good aroma...one of the best I've experienced in a brown ale. I wanted to say that I faintly detected fine cigars in the aroma and flavor, but I think that was my imagination. While I initially loved the roasted flavors, they wore on me as I drank it. Otherwise I would have given this a 10 for flavor, a 9 for drinkability, and a 9.2 overall. Hey, an 8.9 is still great!
Food Pairing:
The next time I enjoy this will be with some authentic BBQ, the food that American Brown Ale was made for! Because of the extra sweetness of this particular beer, it would even do well with BBQ sauce.
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