Winter Carnival Brown
Great Waters Brewing
- From:
- Great Waters Brewing
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2005
- Added:
- Feb 25, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ADR from Pennsylvania
3.63/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.63/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewpub...
Very dark brown color, just some small red highlights come through at the bottom. Creamy medium tan head of over 1/4 of an inch. Lots of nice lace on the glass, thick intricate rings. Easy-going aroma, fresh blueberry and brown sugar. Mouthfeel is about medium, helped by lower carbonation. Carob flavors, some sweetened nuts, and a bit of the berry comes through in the taste. No real apparent hops to be discerned. Slight fault is a retreat to a somewhat diminished close. This is not a big beer at all, but I think its actually one of the better ones at Great Waters with good drinkablility and more than you sometimes get in an ordinary Brown Ale.
Mar 03, 2005Very dark brown color, just some small red highlights come through at the bottom. Creamy medium tan head of over 1/4 of an inch. Lots of nice lace on the glass, thick intricate rings. Easy-going aroma, fresh blueberry and brown sugar. Mouthfeel is about medium, helped by lower carbonation. Carob flavors, some sweetened nuts, and a bit of the berry comes through in the taste. No real apparent hops to be discerned. Slight fault is a retreat to a somewhat diminished close. This is not a big beer at all, but I think its actually one of the better ones at Great Waters with good drinkablility and more than you sometimes get in an ordinary Brown Ale.
Reviewed by tavernjef from Minnesota
3.36/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.36/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
On tap at the brewpub: For a brown this is very brown, nearly porter like in thickness while the color is a deeper looking dark beer bottle brown and was put forth in a pint glass with a thin, bubbly, loose, tan head. Lacing sparcely coats in spots.
Aroma is light with powdered cocoa and nuts, even lighter molasses-like sweetness and a tiny maple syrup touch; seemingly dry, clean, and lightly sweet overall. Not much to it.
Flavors nearly mirror the aroma perfectly with light powdery cocoa, fluffy, dullish pale molasses sweetness, touches of unsalted dry almonds and walnut spritzed with a thin glaze of maple syrup. Not a flavorful brew, clean and very easy to comprehend, just not a whole lot of any one thing or lasting for any considerable time.
Effortless body thats fairly thin, not watery per say, but getting there, kinda flat and no potential with feathery chalkyness here and there; and from a newly tapped keg I might add. A mediocre brew at best thats just lightly sweet with a even lighter backing of dry cocoa and nuts. A bit like a weakened malt tea or something.
Super side note: I've come to expect this type of brew now from Great Waters, I always anticipate their releases of new and different beers, but always find disappointment once I've tried em. Oh, well, still beats alot of the alternatives in the downtown St. Paul area, and now, again, there's another new brewer. And, now, again, the anticipation begins...will my disappointments continue?
Feb 25, 2005Aroma is light with powdered cocoa and nuts, even lighter molasses-like sweetness and a tiny maple syrup touch; seemingly dry, clean, and lightly sweet overall. Not much to it.
Flavors nearly mirror the aroma perfectly with light powdery cocoa, fluffy, dullish pale molasses sweetness, touches of unsalted dry almonds and walnut spritzed with a thin glaze of maple syrup. Not a flavorful brew, clean and very easy to comprehend, just not a whole lot of any one thing or lasting for any considerable time.
Effortless body thats fairly thin, not watery per say, but getting there, kinda flat and no potential with feathery chalkyness here and there; and from a newly tapped keg I might add. A mediocre brew at best thats just lightly sweet with a even lighter backing of dry cocoa and nuts. A bit like a weakened malt tea or something.
Super side note: I've come to expect this type of brew now from Great Waters, I always anticipate their releases of new and different beers, but always find disappointment once I've tried em. Oh, well, still beats alot of the alternatives in the downtown St. Paul area, and now, again, there's another new brewer. And, now, again, the anticipation begins...will my disappointments continue?
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