Mountain Ale
The Shed Brewery

 

This is one of my favorite brown ales because it is not too sweet, has great ABV kick, and it's value priced. Also, I am avoiding beer in cans because of the plastic linings leeching micro plastics into my beer.

 

Nice brown ale
Very well crafted.

Delicious and refreshing for the abv content.

On tap - Toasty, malty, dark, caramels, hint of chocolate, toffee, brown sugar, dried fruits, nutty, herbal earthy grassy hops, dry, medium plus bodied, weighty, smooth and slick, amber red brown color, really nice strong ale

 

 

16 oz can from Tavour. Ratings don't do this beer justice. Dark, clear brown with small,foamy tan head. Rich toasty malt aroma, sweet and nutty. Taste is full and robust, malty, sweet, nutty. If all browns tasted this good I'd order it more often....

Tastes "darker" than it looks, with kind of a roasty, toasted sweetness anchoring everything. A little toffee-ish, applewood-ish, vaguely chocolatey, a bit herbal, some brown sugar, some raisin, and spice-like notes. Complex and hard to describe, but if you're looking for an "autumnal" beer, this is that. Oddly dry finish. With an unintimidating IBU and 7-ish abv, it's kinda sessionable... kinda.

 

 

 

Appearance: Pours a ruby color with some dark copper hues. A thin ring of some quickly dissipating khaki foam.
Smell: Brown sugar, bread crust, little bit of caramel and a little herbal.
Taste: Much like the aroma, lots of bread crust, bit of a honey like sweetness, brown sugar, nutty and just the right amount of bitterness towards the finish.
Feel: Medium bodied, well carbonated, finishes dry. Easy drinking for 7.4%.
Overall: Great beer. Underrated and a real stand out in this stupid beer market.

Poured from a bottle into a tumbler glass
Appearance – The beer pours a dark reddish-brown color with a small head of off-white foam. The head fades rather fast leaving a bit of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is rather heavy of a caramel and toffee aroma mixed with a good showing of a brown bread and lightly toasted malt smell. Mixed with these aromas comes notes of nutmeg and allspice as well as some harvest fruits of apple and pear. A touch of cheery and raisin round it all out, creating a rather warming inviting aroma overall.
Taste – The taste begins as one may have anticipated from the nose, with a toasted bready and doughy flavor that is paired with a decent deal of toffee and caramel sweetness. At the same time there is a light nut bitterness as well as some notes of harvest fruits and herb. As the taste advances the sweet fades just a tad, while more nut and some light spice of coriander joins in. A touch of earthiness comes in at the tail end, leaving one with a rather warming and moderately sweet malty taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a moderate carbonation level. For the style, abv. and flavors the feel is rather nice and makes for a nice fall style sipper.
Overall – A rather flavorful, yet balanced red/brown ale. Overall, a nice fall brew.

Pours a dark amber with a nearly three-finger off-white head that dissipates to a lasting coating.

Aromas of floral and earthy hops at the fore, with toffee and a dark fruit backbone.

Layers of flavor that I'm definitely not doing justice: slight toffee, whole grain bread, and earthy hops start it off, then comes the dark fruits, and finally some robust sweetness with toffee, browned caramel, and a hint of molasses. Adding air brings out the sweeter flavors at any point in the sip. The finish blends this sweetness with hop bitterness with moderate dryness. Just a hint of alcohol bite on the swallow. As it warms, the sweeter characteristics come to the fore and linger more throughout the sip, but it avoids becoming syrupy or cloying.

Moderate but fine carb creates a smooth and frothy mouthfeel. Medium bodied.

I've always found it a bit difficult to describe the flavor profile of beers that get slotted into the English strong ale category, but I do know that I thoroughly enjoy them. This is a fine example out of VT and a bit of a surprise that it's a core offering. It's pretty much spot-on to what I expect from the style.

Everything a 'strong brown ale' should be; rich, yet well tuned, with lots of deep malty and complex flavors 'Rugged', as per the label - is an apt description. Tho' with a touch of carbonation,and . . you barely notice the alcohol content. It's so flavorable. One of the very best.

On tap Twiggs restaurant-pint glass.

Dark copper color. Very little tan head. No ret or lacing. (assuming gentle pour)

Caramel sweetness and light bread on the nose

Tastes of malty caramel and mild dark fruit. Sweet.

Smooth full bodied. Low carb.

Nice beer. Easy drinking..

 

Appearance - Pours a rusty dark brown with three fingers of frothy tan head.

Smell - earthy, leafy, and floral hops, dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig), hint of smoky aromas, bready and biscuity malts, toffee, and earthy yeast.

Taste - earthy, leafy, and floral hops upfront. The dark fruits (plum, raisin, and fig) come through next alongside some nuttiness. The hint of smoky aromas are there followed quickly by the bready and biscuity malts. The toffee and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth and slightly creamy with the hops adding a nice bite in the finish.

Overall - A solid and easy drinking brown ale. This goes down really easy considering it's 7.4%. I'll enjoy the rest of this can sitting outside on my deck on this mild Cowtown "winter" afternoon.