Bobby
Village Brewery
- From:
- Village Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 10.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 26, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Our winter seasonal for 2017-2018 is this Northern English Brown Ale with notes of nuts, caramel and toffee. A true winter warmer and ode to the great Allistair Smart, the first craft beer sales rep in Alberta
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by WanderingRonin from Canada (AB)
3.27/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Appearance is a clear, fairly dark chestnut brown color that pours with a nice two fingers of foamy tan colored head that has an ok amount of retention to it and leaves a good amount of clingy lacing.
Nice toasted nutty aroma to it with some hints of chocolate and even fainter notes of leafy hops.
Nice lightly sweet, toasted malt flavor forward with light notes of chestnuts and faint hints of toffee,maybe some ghostly hints of cardamom on the back end, body is nicely balanced, not heavy nor too weak. Mild leafy hop bittering on the finish, some bitter black tea notes as well as faint hint of rabbit pellets, finish is slightly a bit more bitter then the sweet front end, but only slightly, with a lingering toasted malt and leafy hop flavor on the aftertaste.
Smooth bodied with a maybe slightly lower then average amount of carbonation to it, over all a nice balanced English style brown ale.
Oct 26, 2019Nice toasted nutty aroma to it with some hints of chocolate and even fainter notes of leafy hops.
Nice lightly sweet, toasted malt flavor forward with light notes of chestnuts and faint hints of toffee,maybe some ghostly hints of cardamom on the back end, body is nicely balanced, not heavy nor too weak. Mild leafy hop bittering on the finish, some bitter black tea notes as well as faint hint of rabbit pellets, finish is slightly a bit more bitter then the sweet front end, but only slightly, with a lingering toasted malt and leafy hop flavor on the aftertaste.
Smooth bodied with a maybe slightly lower then average amount of carbonation to it, over all a nice balanced English style brown ale.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.84/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
330ml bottle - so they mean 'bobby', as in the quaint English slang term meaning police officer?
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick tinted brown colour, with four fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent splatter pattern lace around the glass as it gradually recedes.
It smells of toasted and bready caramel malt, some earthy nuttiness, day-old coffee grounds, a subtle black orchard fruitiness, and some well-understated leafy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee thing, some free-agent ashiness, fresh bar-top nuts, bittersweet cocoa powder, an indistinct dark fleshy fruitiness, faint cafe-au-lait, and more gentle earthy, weedy, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its basic cable frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a mild airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad out of the ol' cellar fridge. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt and nutty notes hanging out way past last call.
Overall, this comes across as a rather well-made version of the style, nice and roasty and full-flavoured. The only thing that puzzles me is the claim to being a 'true winter warmer', when it boasts a sub-5 pointer ABV measure. I guess I'll never understand marketing.
Oct 04, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick tinted brown colour, with four fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent splatter pattern lace around the glass as it gradually recedes.
It smells of toasted and bready caramel malt, some earthy nuttiness, day-old coffee grounds, a subtle black orchard fruitiness, and some well-understated leafy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee thing, some free-agent ashiness, fresh bar-top nuts, bittersweet cocoa powder, an indistinct dark fleshy fruitiness, faint cafe-au-lait, and more gentle earthy, weedy, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its basic cable frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a mild airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad out of the ol' cellar fridge. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt and nutty notes hanging out way past last call.
Overall, this comes across as a rather well-made version of the style, nice and roasty and full-flavoured. The only thing that puzzles me is the claim to being a 'true winter warmer', when it boasts a sub-5 pointer ABV measure. I guess I'll never understand marketing.
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