Buzz For Breakfast
Greenbush Brewing Company

Very tasty unique beer that blends the sweet and mildly hoppy flavors well. Nice dark tan color with loads of foaming head and spotty lingering lacing. Smells of honey, malt, coffee and some chocolate. Tastes similarly, along with vanilla and caramel. Smooth mild mouthfeel and great amount of carbonation.

Bottled January 2018; drank 4/15/18 @ the Yarchives.

Opaque brown/orange appearance.

A rough pour yielded a HUGE khaki head (careful pouring!); frothy lace.

Honey, caramel, clove & light roast coffee bean notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Honey, cream & light roast coffee bean flavors up front; dry clove & mild banana notes on the finish.

A Belgian yeast vibe marks this one; it's interesting but not really a true brown ale. Worth a one quaff, but probably not a second.

A 12oz. bottle with a cryptic code I won't bother to figure out. Poured in a Greenbush snifter.

Look- Pours a thin pale brown producing a large creamy finger of tan foam. It settles very slowly revealing a little lacing.

Smell- Coffee and nut bread.

Taste- Coffee forward, a hint of tobacco and fresh crushed nuts. A hint of sweet honey emerges in the finish.

Feel- Very thin and slightly creamy.

Overall- A well brewed brown that is complemented nicely with the coffee and honey. I don't drink this style much anymore, but this was a solid and very easy drinking beer.

 

12 ounce bottle into pint glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent new release. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep ruby red/brown color with a 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a far amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of nutty medium roast coffee, caramel, honey, brown sugar, and toasted brown bread; with lighter notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roast malts, coffee, honey, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of nutty medium roast coffee, caramel, honey, brown sugar, and toasted brown bread; with lighter notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/grassy/spicy hop and roasted coffee bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty coffee, caramel, honey, brown sugar, toasted brown bread, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roast malts, coffee, honey, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a very nice American brown ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roast malts, coffee, honey, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Great fruity/nutty coffee complexity, balanced with a classic brown ale malt profile, honey, and a fair amount of earthy hops. Not too roasty. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.