Frangelic Mountain Brown
Founders Brewing Company

Copenhagen 19/12 2020. 35,5 cl bottle from Kvickly, Østergade, Middelfart. A very big and probable “frangelic” mountain on the label.

Pours unclear, brown with a red hue. Small off-white head. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam unable to cover the surface of the beer. No lacing.

Aroma is intense with a strong candy-like, sweet odor mingling with nutty notes. Brown sugar, Nutella. Hazelnut, toffee. Coffee with a load of sugar. Hides the alcohol pretty well.

Light carbonation. Quite thick, soft, smooth, lightly, tingling texture.

Flavor is intense with a strong sweetness followed by a very moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet with a light bitter undertone. Finish is sweet and boozy. Like a nutty liqueur.

Quite a sweet bomb. If you like your croissant with chocolate and Nutella this one is for you.

 

Dark, brown color. Good looking, off-white head.Aroma of nuts and toasted malt . Rich malty taste, moderately sweet. No trace of alcohol. A nice sipper.

Pours mahogany brown with one finger foam for the top. Aroma is coffee and hazelnut. Taste is lighter than expected but consists of profiles for hazelnut, coffee, roasted malt and chocolate. This brew fits quite nicely in the brown ale category. The coffee profile is quite dominant but, IMHO, doesn't quite overpower everything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours dark brown with a slight head that quickly thins. Aroma is slight sweet coffee, no malt. (And no hazelnut-iness.)

Taste is predominantly the hazelnut/ frangelico. Marshmellow, then yesterday's coffee, some plum, some anise and Valentine's chocolate. Coffee underneath is bitter, dark unsweet chocolate, and bitterness. 36 IBU seems unnatural, and emphasized by that sh**ty coffee. Boozy without being hot.

Feels like it's a all a little too much (hey we did an adjunct!) and much less balanced than the Sumatra Mountain Brown, a much better coffee brown. Body is all right, man the frangelico just overpowers the rest of it.

 

 

 

Pours a dark, dark brown. Completely opaque but still on the thin side in keeping with it being a brown ale. One to two finger head dissipates until just a thin layer of velvety foam covers the beer. That last thin layer lingers for a long time. The aroma is really where this one shines. The aroma is absolutely dominated by a bright hazelnut coffee aroma - wake up and smell the coffee indeed! I honestly don't get much else underneath that coffee aroma, even as it warms.

Taste follows the nose with a nice robust coffee note up front with notes of hazelnut coming through. This tastes like black coffee that was roasted with hazelnut rather than coffee with say hazelnut creamer in it - and for that reason I love it. It keeps it from getting overly sweet even though its got that hazelnut in it. Again, the flavor profile is really dominated by the coffee and hazelnut - with this being a brown ale, I suspect they were going for the dominant coffee flavor. That being said there are some more subtle notes of brown sugar, cinnamon and roasty notes (from the coffee not the malt) giving way to some mild bitterness on the back end. Feel is thin, even for a brown ale, but in that sense it just makes it even more coffee-like. Moderate carbonation.

Overall this is one of those beers that if you love coffee - its great - especially if you like your coffee black. But, if you don't like coffee, well there isn't much in this beer that is going to do it for you.