Brews Brothers Stormy Monday N2 Smoked Brown Ale
Parallel 49 Brewing Company

 

 

Poured from a 341ml bottle that was on N2 but it was terrible and idk if it worked like it should've

L: Brown Black.

S: Brown sugar sweet not smokey smelling at all.

T: Pretty bland a little sweetness to it and a little bit of citrus flavour in there.

F: Small body kinda a little bit dissapointing

O: My least favorite beer so far very little going on and the N2 didn't seem to do much to it.

 

 

Brewed in collaboration with Persephone Brewing Company.

Appearance - Pours a cola brown with three fingers of creamy tan head.

Smell - smoke, roasted malts, hint of toffee/caramel, woodiness.

Taste - Roasted malts and smoke (woodiness) are the predominate flavours. The hint of toffee/caramel are lost in translation.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light carbonation. Finishes with a lingering smoke and woody flavours.

Overall - A smoked beer that is dominated by the roasted malts and smoke flavour. I wish the other elements made an appearance. The mouthfeel is quite lacking considering the style.

 

This missed the mark for me. The N2 treatment, in my opinion, was unnecessary. I would have far preferred a smoked brown ale full of flavour. However, this was a mess to pour and once the head dissipated, I was left with a flat, thin brown ale. Definitely not a beer I would go out of my way to find again.

 

In collaboration with Persephone Brewing Company as part of the Brews Brothers Collaboration mixed Pack - This pours a dark brown with a thick mousse like tan head. The nose is caramel malt, smoke, roasted coffee and some earthy notes. Bread and roasted malts come to the forefront on the taste surrounded by a nuttiness. The nitro gives it a smoothness that unfortunately slides into wateriness that brings this rating down a notch.

 

Cloudy reddish brown with one finger of lovely looking foamy tan head. I smell earthy malts, but not really any smoke. The taste isn't bad -- it has a nice nuttiness -- but I can't get past the watery mouthfeel. Maybe nitrogenated beers just aren't for me.

 

 

Where's the smoke? Looks beautiful, easy drinking.

 

 

My first N2 beer, I'll have to update this review once I have had broader experience. It has a great mouth feel, creamy at first breaking away to a some nice bitter tones. It is a bit light in body but not to its detriment. The smoke is pleasant and not overpowering, giving hints of black tea and and dates.

341ml bottle, part of the 12-pack of collaboration brews (Brews Brothers) that P49 has concocted, this one with Persephone Brewing, it being a nitrogenated smoked brown ale.

This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three fingers of weakly cascading, but ultimately rather tightly foamy and creamy ecru head, which leaves a low wash of thick, patchy lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of meaty smoked caramel malt, a soft earthy nuttiness, further wet ashy notes, and a tame leafy, weedy hoppiness. The taste is bready, lightly roasted caramel malt, an additional grainy pale malt sweetness, oily bar-top nuts, a faint watery flintiness, and plain earthy, leafy noble hops.

The carbonation (nitrogenation?) is damned-near absent, barely putting in its basic support duties, the body medium-light in weight, and maybe a tad smooth, but watery all the same. It finishes off-dry, the fading smoke allowing the wan nuttiness of the underlying brown ale to, er, strut its stuff.

Yeah, not all beer treatments need be applied to all styles, and here, mixing a nitrogen gassing with a smoked brown ale does no one any favours. The presentation is lackluster (maybe I didn't tilt the bottle a full 180 degrees while pouring, but then again, maybe I didn't want half the beer all over the table, either), and the smoke just seems too thin and ineffectual. Not bad, but not good, either, overall.