English Brown Ale
The Original Basil T's

From a growler purchased a couple hours before tasting:

Pours clouded brown with a thin, lasting head. Some trailing lace sticks to glass.

The taste is of slight chocolate. Hints of wet cardboard come through.

The taste is chocolate-ish - more like cocoa powder. Some spicy/earthy hops. The touch of wet cardboard comes through a bit. Almost like a light porter - some nuttiness is discernable, but vague.

The feel is rather watery and under-carbonated. It does have a smoothness to it, in a rather silky way and some chocolatey flavor hangs around, despite some of it being washed away.

Bottom line - It's okay - a middle-of-the-roadish brown, IMO.

A deep russet-brown body is capped by a creamy bone-white head that holds well initially, but drops to just a creamy collar within the first few sips. The lacing is limited, but it does leave some transient lace with each taste. The nose is nicely clean and reveals a mildly sweet and lightly caramelish malt. The body is light, and it's gently crisp on the tongue. The flavor, however, takes things up a notch and offers a fairly interesting combination of mild caramel and nuts followed by a touch of light cocoa that develops into a more chocolatey character as the balancing bitterness rises. It finishes with a gentle note of mild roastiness from the dark chocolate malt. Nicely done!