Nut Brown Ale
Oak Pond Brewing Company

Best brown ale I’ve ever had.

From 22 oz. bottle purchased at the brewery.
Rich reddish brown, three fingers white head, curtains lacing and a full cap
Nutty malt aromas, light molasses, bready scent
Walnut, toffee, light hopping
Light hop bitterness appropriate for the style, consistent abundant carbonation enhances the experience, no alcohol presence
Reviews on this beer go back to 2000, obviously nothing needs fixing. Great brown ale.

I really like this English brown ale. Pours dark rusty brown with a very active creamy head that leaves a light lace. Smell is bread and malt. Taste is well balanced and smooth; malty and sweet nutty bread with just a hint of hops. Body is just on the heavy side with abundant carbonation.
My friends son lives near this brewery and and brings this variety home when he visits. Lucky for me....

 

This brown ale pours a dark brown color with a slight russet tint and a medium tan head with a fairly high amount of carbonation. The smell is malt heavy with scents of caramel and toasted bread. The taste is quite heavy with roasted grains with lesser flavors of nuts, caramel, yeast, and brown bread. There is a mild hop presence that gives a slightly bitter finish also. The body is on the high end of medium. It’s strangely actually maybe a little heavier than the Storyteller dopplebock which is a pro to me. The finish is semi-dry also. It’s a very nice heavier brown ale that is really great for the fall or winter. This is probably the best beer from this brewery though only by a slight margin over the doppelbock though this one is much more true to its style than the dopplebock is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

liked this a bit better than their (Oak Pond) DoorYard.

But have found that I prefer most other brown ale micros.

Very drinkable. Sweet flavors of molassis, more malts. Detect little to no hoppy flavors.

Mouthfeel: perhaps a bit over carbonated. Like DoorYard, perhaps a bit watery (but less so than DoorYard). Not sure how else to describe. Like an overly light bodied wine.

 

My buddy Von brought this back for me. Since I had not heard of this brewery I was eager to try it and so far it's looking good. It's got a nice, rich brown color with a really dense, creamy inch-thick head that seems like it wants to hang out a while.

Right off the bat you get some malts that give off some pecan-like scents, treacle and a bit of earthiness. Hop presence is minimal and lightly floral. Smells sweet and tastes even sweeter which would put this more into the London-style of brown ales as those from the north of England tend to be drier. The taste is dominated by the malts with just a slight spicy hop counternote. This is a really nice representation of an English brown with all the key taste elements in place.

Really smooth and creamy with just a slight oiliness to the tongue. The carbonation can be felt and there is no discernible alcohol. The ABV is not listed above or on the bottle, but another beer rating site (which I will not name here) puts it at 4.5% which is right about where I guessed it would be.

Not a bad beer at all! A little more attenuation from the yeast would throw the ABV higher and balance out some of the sweetness but that is not the point of this style or what the brewmaster intended (see their website...it is intended as a session ale), but I'd probably like it better.

This beer was probably my favorite from Oak Pond. The beer poured out as a brown color that was clear looking. The head was tan and fizzy. The head left behind a pretty good lacing. The smell of the beer has a roasted nut and coffee aroma. The flavor had mostly coffee on the tongue. There was a sweet malt flavor too in there. The mouthfeel was pretty typical, clean and crisp with a medium body. Overall the beer had a good balance, and I would drink it again but I can't see myself going all the way to Maine to get it again.

Pours from the bottle in to a pint glass a big four finger sized tan head that seems to disappear rather quickly though. Walnut/red colored with good medium sized carbonation bubbles and fairly clear as well. Minimal lacing.

Smell is a wet malt and a faint floral soap character. A roast character of charred burnt toast, or burnt in the pan gravy, is in the background. Tanic roast nut shell also.

Taste is a bit too fizzy and carbonated unfortunately, with faint malt finish and brown bread burnt aftertaste. Has a burnt toast, burnt pan gravy, feel of that black carbon going on, with tannic dry nut qualities. If that's your thing you will probably very much enjoy it.

A dark brown color with a light tan head and some lacing.
Smells of dark fruit and maltiness.
A smooth taste of malt and nuttiness with a slightly hoppy ending.
Has a medium mouthfeel with carbonation.
Very drinkable beer. My favorite OPB. Can't wait to get up north
and have another.