Equinox Brown
Great Waters Brewing

Had on-tap at the pub, now for the growler: Thickly hazed crimsony brown color with a puffy light fizz of ivory foam that skips across the top quickly. A few spots of lace stick.

Aroma is all but a super deep and sweet concoction of the usual Belgian yeast used at GW along with some slight nutty dryness of hazelnut and a bit of burnt raisinyness.

Taste is all sweet malt and Belgian sugary yeast; syrupy taste with only a slight sticky cloying backing and some slivered in drynes of hazelnut, vanilla, and some cocoa. Tendered in underneath is some bready thick doughyness that grabs a bit of dark fruityness of raisin and mango. Pretty damn sweet though and needs some balance.

Nice body of malty goodness, thick, soaked in medium girth with a slick, semi gooeyness of some sticky Doppelbock palate grabbing effects. Very faint impressioned dryness of nuts floats about.

Overall, not sure if this is suppose to be an American style with a lot of Belgian yeast thrown in or is just a dark Belgian brown? With GW, it's become the norm to have a many a brew or two to come out throughout the year with this same flavor of sweet sugary Belgian yeastyness that's quite tasty. However, this one is a bit one dimensional and flatter then some of the others I'v enjoyed in the past that caryy perhaps a bit more subtle notes, hints, and tones.