Mischievous Brown Ale
Helltown Brewing

 

 

 

Poured a nice, dense copper body with quick-dying head. Decent aroma of malts that are a little biscuity and sweet. Medium body, slightly heavy and sticky at times, with a chewy maltiness to it that has notes of toffee and even something akin to butterscotch, and slightly dry, herbal finish, and nicely balanced beer.

Draft at Champions Double Tree in Green Tree, PA!

4/26/2024, on tap at Titlow in Uniontown

A little malty for us.

Just a quick review

 

 

L - Poured dark root beer brown with a one finger tan fizzy head that dissipated to none quickly. No lacing.
S - Light chocolate malt
T - Rich malty taste with a hint of chocolate. No detectable hops.
F - Medium body, smooth with light carbonation.
O - Very nice. One of the better brown ales that I have had.

Had this at the Walnut Grill in Wexford, PA poured from tap into a shaker pint. Clear dark brown color with good beige head decent lacing. Nice chocolate and toffee smell and taste. Earthy but pleasantly sweet. Nice brown ale.

 

 

A solid easy drinking English Brown. Smooth and malty with good mouthfeel.

Poured from the can into a nonic(k) pint glass.

Burnt rusted dark brown and red. Looks slightly sludgey and hazy not terribly though, with just a bare hint of noticeable carbonation. Short head, but creamy, reaching two fingers and a very light colored khaki.

Good toasted aroma, even slightly hinting some crust and char. Bit of a hinting banana like estery note it seems which seems a bit of a surprise. Small touches of dark bread and malted caramel, with a faint hint of milk chocolate.

Palate seems to keep it simple. Light bodied but with a bit of mineral girth and hinting rich malt base for a supportive flavor. Touches spicy hop notes with a good milk chocolate touch of malt flavor in the mid palate. Faint very small banana in aftertaste which makes for a nice touch, but a real sense of rocky mineral flavors in the finish too.

Quite a nice simple easy drinking brown.

Pours a dark amber leaning towards mahogany with a tan head.

Caramel nutty malt and whole grain bread with slightly fruity floral hops.

Taste follows nose with some spicy grain.

 

 

This begins by pouring two twelve ounce cans into a clear glass liter mug. Now, the dark caramel color of the ale is revealed. Dark, as almost stout dark it be. There's a tremendous amount of carbonation that, despite two deliberate pours, have contributed to an oversized biege head. Still the bubbles keep coming. As the head recedes, it leaves little glass lacing. The aroma is malty, but missing that heavily roasted character that accurately separates a brown ale from a stout. This is a very good brown ale. The malt, although not roasted to the point of becoming astringent, is the featured flavor. The hops are there only in a dose that you'd get from an American commercial lager. In other words, just enough for a marginal taste. Brown ales aren't supposed to be hop bombs, so this is true to the style. This has a good brown ale malt flavor without being too sweet. For all the malt, it does drink thinly, but not to a great detriment. Brown ales are a much neglected style, but this is good enough, although not great, to create more interest in the category.

 

12 oz. can (BB 7/15/21) poured into a pint glass with a dark brown (deep red in direct light) color, quickly fading cream colored head and minimal lacing. Smells of sweet malt, toffee, caramel. Taste follows aroma with a strong malt balance, also hints of nuts, plum, toffee. Medium body with good carbonation that finishes a tad sweet. Good example of an English Brown ale, very good for what it is.