Farmers Brown Cow
Bradfield Brewery

Cask at The Magnet on Wellington Road, Stockport.
Beautiful looking pint.
Quite rich and very tasty with some almost milk chocolate flavours coming through

Chestnut brown with malty aroma. Mainly malt flavour but with a slight hoppy tang in aftertaste. Very pleasant and sessionable.

Cask from The Six Chimneys (JD Wetherspoon), Wakefield.

500 ml bottle, from Bier Huis, Ossett. ABV is 4.2%. Clear reddish brown colour, large off-white head. Malty aroma with notes of brown bread, caramel and brittle, a hint of prunes. The flavour is also malty but not too sweet, with the same elements as the aroma. Moderate hops in the finish. Good body for a 4.2% beer.

Tasted by a half-pint at the Swim Inn, a JDW pub in Sheffield. Served by a sparkler-fitted hand pump.

A: despite the name, the colour is not brown to me, more like dark reddish amber with great clarity; a creamy off-white beer head sits on top of very low carbonation.
S: more autumny fruits and dried leafy hops come before maltiness, featuring a mildly sweet citric edge of hops underlining sour-sweet plumy and pear-ish fruitiness, backed by honey-ish and dark malts. Quite pleasant, and very light.
T: the taste packs a smack of nutty malts and fast-expanding earthy and tannic dried leafy hoppiness, while the latter makes the palate unusually dry for a Brown Ale (by which this ale seems to define itself); the nicely blended flavour profile seems to linger reasonably well, slowly yielding to a quiet malty aroma in the end.
M&D: slightly thin-bodied, but remaining very quaffable overall. This is a malty and nutty brew underlining lots of dryish hoppiness.