Brown Ale
New Planet Beer Company

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly reddish orange/copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of molasses, dark fruit, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of cocoa, coffee, sorghum/rice extract, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with good strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of molasses, dark fruit, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, spicy hop; and roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light molasses/fruit, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of cocoa, coffee, sorghum/rice extract, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a nice sugar/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is okay. Pretty rough finishing, but not too bad. Zero warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is a pretty good gluten free brown ale. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of cocoa, coffee, sorghum/rice extract, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; smooth and easy to drink with the lightly bitter/drying finish. A little weird at first, but it grew on me. Well balanced flavors; with light earthy hops against sweetness. Good representation of the intended style overall, and still kind of tastes like beer. A nicely enjoyable offering.

wow just a nasty tasting beer taste like a like sour tart beer thats not for anybody i always try gluten beers so forget this one

 

I had a colleague who is gluten-free and I told her that I would keep my eye out for G-F beer options and report back to her on my findings. In the interim, I retired from that job and I still have the beers awaiting review. I have not felt perfect these last couple of days, so I thought that I would try something(s) fairly innocuous.

From the bottle: "Richly Rewarding"; "Gluten Free"; "Ale Made From Sorghum and Brown Rice Extract"; "For every New Planet beer you enjoy, a portion of the proceeds is donated to help our planet."

I Pop!ped the cap and held my breath, anticipating another foamer like the previous Blonde Ale. No problems to report. I then began an aggro pour, producing three-plus fingers of foamy, light-tan head with decent retention. In fact, it fell into a little floating island, like a root beer float. Color was a Coppery-Brown (SRM = > 17, < 22) with NE-plus quality clarity. Nose had an oddly sharp sweetness, like brown sugar or molasses along with a milk chocolatiness. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste had a very molasses-like sharp sweetness and I wished that the chocolate flavor had translated into it to cut the taste. Drinking through it, as it warmed, it began to take on more of the chocolaty aspects that I had sensed on the nose. TAKE NOTE: This is better closing on on room temperature. Finish had a semi-dryness that was also unexpected. The slightly tart sharpness coupled with the chocolatiness to keep if from being totally dry.

Not drinkable at all. Leaves a bad after taste. One of my few drain pours.

Smells OK but not a drinkable beer. It went down real fast and left a horrible gassy after taste. Guess if you need gluten free beer try it!

 

 

 

 

 

A: The beer is crystal clear amber in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high light beige head that died down, leaving lacing on the surface and a thick collar around the edge of the glass. The head eventually completely faded away.
S: Light to moderate aromas of sorghum are present in the nose along with some slight hints of malt extracts.
T: The taste has lots of flavors of sorghum and is accompanied by a light amount of bitterness. Neither sweetness nor malts are perceptible.
M: It feels a bit more than light-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer started off with overwhelming aromas and flavors of sorghum but these really mellowed out once the beer began to warm up, which made it much easier to drink, when compared to other gluten-free beers.

 

 

 

 

Appears a bright amber hue, it must be hard to dial in on a brown without the specialty barley malts. The label says ale brewed from sorghum and brown rice extract. The head is a light cream color that has nice scattered lacing formed around the sides of my glass. Aroma has a good bit of alcohol esters from the fermentation process, hints of roasted cereal grains, and an almost acidic tart character, earthy back ground Centennial and Sterling hop additions. I'm also getting some tart dark cherry tartness. Flavors are a bit harsh with tart qualities, and alcohol that is a bit too evident for any beer this low in alcohol. Mouthfeel is harsh from the first to last sip, cloying sweetness and booze presence makes for a bad time. Overall, I have one more Belgian Ale from New Planet this one however was very rough.