Rail Ale Nut Brown Ale
Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- From:
- Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 7.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
A smooth, flavourful nut brown ale with hints of chocolate and licorice. Made with 100% barley, hops, water & yeast, it is named in recognition of the region's strong railway history and Squamish BC's West Coast Railway Heritage Park - Home of the Royal Hudson and Western Canada's largest collection of heritage railway equipment.
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Reviewed by BigBry from Canada (AB)
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Local, one of several options available at the time.
Deep, dark brown color with a large beige head. Good looking pour with nice foam and retention, lots of thin sticky lacing. Smell has some sweetness from toasted malt, also some nuttiness coming through.
Toasted malt flavor, earthy, nutty. Some chocolate hints also coming through (more as it starts to warm). Mild leafy or herbal hops to finish. Mouthfeel is smooth, maybe a touch thin.
May 13, 2015Deep, dark brown color with a large beige head. Good looking pour with nice foam and retention, lots of thin sticky lacing. Smell has some sweetness from toasted malt, also some nuttiness coming through.
Toasted malt flavor, earthy, nutty. Some chocolate hints also coming through (more as it starts to warm). Mild leafy or herbal hops to finish. Mouthfeel is smooth, maybe a touch thin.
Reviewed by marcusR111 from Canada (AB)
4.08/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Very dark with thicker head
S: Woody molases smell. Roasted malt. Light chocolate and licorice smell.
T: earthy molases. roasted malt. little chocolate and licorice smell, slight hop flavor.
M: Thicker full bodied beer.
Serving type: 1L bottle
Dec 12, 2011S: Woody molases smell. Roasted malt. Light chocolate and licorice smell.
T: earthy molases. roasted malt. little chocolate and licorice smell, slight hop flavor.
M: Thicker full bodied beer.
Serving type: 1L bottle
Reviewed by Cyberkedi from Georgia
3.48/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Strong aroma is malty with a woody note and a substrate of molasses. It pours a dark, barely transparent brown with a fairly thick but not persistent light tan head that still leaves some good lacing. Malty flavor has a firm woody note and a hint of molasses. Texture is rather fizzy and just a bit on the thin side. Now if only they sold it in quantities other than a whole blooming liter--
Nov 08, 2011
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.63/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.63/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This has been around a while. Enjoyed on tap at the brewpub. Brown coloured body, lacey. The aroma is nutty and rootbeerish. Licorice taste, some chocolate malt, brown sugar. Average mouthfeel, suitably carbonated. Decent drinkability.Run-o-the-mill brown.
Jul 30, 2011
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