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Kick-Ass Brown
C.H. Evans Brewing Company
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- From:
- C.H. Evans Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 12.85%
- Reviews:
- 43
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 22, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 19, 2002
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 15
No description / notes.
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Ratings by soultrain:
Reviewed by soultrain from New York
4.43/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.43/5 rDev +11.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Sampled on-tap in a very, very dimly lit beer bar in the middle of nowhere (Krumville, NY.) Pint glass. Notes would have been better but I feel funny writing when people are lookin' at me as I do so...
A-I can barely see this beer, but it's a reddish dark amber? Excellent looking 1/2" beige head, lace is excellent...all down my pint glass.
S-This is a brown ale? Most IPA-ish scents leap into my nostrils. Maybe they brought me the wrong beer. Nope, it's correct; and it's CORRECT. Hop extravaganza for a brown ale, damn, I feel lucky to have stumbled into this beer...Hops are either tons of cascade or amarillo....maybe both.
T-MMM...lip smackingly delicious. Kick-ass brown is right. Tons of hops here, and I picked this beer by blind luck. Real nice bitterness cut through my burger with gorgonzola like a ginsu knife. I really like this beer.
Good malts flavor as well, though I keep lovin' the hops. I can't say it's balanced for most people, but for me it's perfect.
M-Perfect for the style. Light medium mouthfeel. In a beer bar with 500 choices, I had 3 of these....I couldn't help it!
D-Supreme drinkability. After one of these there is only one option: more, please! I'd love to have this beer in bottled form chilled in the DBF right now; it'd be a definate go-to beer for all occasions for me, the IPA lover!
CRUX: BEST BROWN ALE I EVER HAD. KICK-ASS INDEED! Highly recommended. Please bottle this soon! !
Jun 23, 2006A-I can barely see this beer, but it's a reddish dark amber? Excellent looking 1/2" beige head, lace is excellent...all down my pint glass.
S-This is a brown ale? Most IPA-ish scents leap into my nostrils. Maybe they brought me the wrong beer. Nope, it's correct; and it's CORRECT. Hop extravaganza for a brown ale, damn, I feel lucky to have stumbled into this beer...Hops are either tons of cascade or amarillo....maybe both.
T-MMM...lip smackingly delicious. Kick-ass brown is right. Tons of hops here, and I picked this beer by blind luck. Real nice bitterness cut through my burger with gorgonzola like a ginsu knife. I really like this beer.
Good malts flavor as well, though I keep lovin' the hops. I can't say it's balanced for most people, but for me it's perfect.
M-Perfect for the style. Light medium mouthfeel. In a beer bar with 500 choices, I had 3 of these....I couldn't help it!
D-Supreme drinkability. After one of these there is only one option: more, please! I'd love to have this beer in bottled form chilled in the DBF right now; it'd be a definate go-to beer for all occasions for me, the IPA lover!
CRUX: BEST BROWN ALE I EVER HAD. KICK-ASS INDEED! Highly recommended. Please bottle this soon! !
More User Ratings:
Rated by Ken805
5/5 rDev +25.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +25.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Best brown ale I’ve ever tasted
Mar 22, 2020Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.93/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
At the brewpub, this was poured into a nonic pint glass. The appearance was a dark brown color with a light transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen rising to fill a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds leaving some foamy lacing in a messy way. The smell had a semi-sweet dry roasty nuts, caramel, toffee and a light cocoa combining into a light sharp resin. The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors to combine initially and then as it warms more resin starts to kick into a decent little hop bite. Lingering resin and nuts lead into the aftertaste and finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body so it becomes pretty sessionable. Carbonation comes across fairly smooth and allows the resin to be the bitterness over my tongue. Overall, I say this was a pretty good American Brown Ale, hopheads might even like it.
Jun 13, 2017Reviewed by David_Green from Massachusetts
2.81/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.81/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
We have been visiting the Albany Pump Station brewpub once a year for a good many years. Our recent visit turned up the information that this place has a new brewer. He apparently deemed it necessary to tinker with the recipe for their flagship Kick-Ass Brown, which was their one and only outstanding brew and one that was consistently good over many years. The "new" brown ale retains the name of its predecessor, but is substantially different: it is grainier, scratchier, much more malt and less hoppy and smooth. It has declined greatly in overall taste, feel, and drinkability. It no longer kicks ass. And I no longer have a reason to visit this brewpub. Another great beer has bitten the dust.
Jun 17, 2016Rated by charleshoffman455
4.31/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
4.31/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
By far my favorite brown
Jul 23, 2015Rated by Spreetaper from New York
4/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the County Inn - Olivebridge,NY
Jun 22, 2015
Kick-Ass Brown from C.H. Evans Brewing Company
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
112 ratings
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