Blooming Bones
Collective Arts Brewing
- From:
- Collective Arts Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 14.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 10, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 05, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Short Finger Brewing. Part of the Art Reserve Series
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
2.69/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
2.69/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
Appearance: Poured with a solid thumb of head that laced like crazy and retained decently. The body is a cloudy, uttetrly opaque brown.
Smell: Grassy hops, which are of pale ale intensity, and completely out of character for the style. I think I am catching some toffee malts in the background, but the hops are by far the most prevalent note.
Taste: Starts with some mild toffee malt and then just gets walloped by piney hop resin. I've encountered IPAs with less hopping. As you keep drinking it the transition point develops a hard water mineral note to it as well.
Mouthfeel: The hops cling and dominate the aftertaste which shouldn't happen for this style. The carbonation is helping out the beer, but again it's highlight a note that fundamentally is too strong and should not be there. The transition from mild sweetness to hop wallop leaves much to be desired.
Drinkability: Too hoppy to be quaffable for a style that should offer some malt. Medium body and settles down I suppose. However that's not much to say when this comes across as not something I remotely want.
Final Thoughts: This is a Pale ale in disguise simply put, and a fairly aggressive one at that. I mean, if that was the intent here, kudos. However, while I understand American Brown tends towards more bitterness then English Brown, this is too much. Hard pass.
Apr 10, 2026Smell: Grassy hops, which are of pale ale intensity, and completely out of character for the style. I think I am catching some toffee malts in the background, but the hops are by far the most prevalent note.
Taste: Starts with some mild toffee malt and then just gets walloped by piney hop resin. I've encountered IPAs with less hopping. As you keep drinking it the transition point develops a hard water mineral note to it as well.
Mouthfeel: The hops cling and dominate the aftertaste which shouldn't happen for this style. The carbonation is helping out the beer, but again it's highlight a note that fundamentally is too strong and should not be there. The transition from mild sweetness to hop wallop leaves much to be desired.
Drinkability: Too hoppy to be quaffable for a style that should offer some malt. Medium body and settles down I suppose. However that's not much to say when this comes across as not something I remotely want.
Final Thoughts: This is a Pale ale in disguise simply put, and a fairly aggressive one at that. I mean, if that was the intent here, kudos. However, while I understand American Brown tends towards more bitterness then English Brown, this is too much. Hard pass.
Reviewed by AnyBeerULike from Canada (ON)
3.96/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Tasty brown ale, with a pleasant hoppy finish! Hits all the notes for the style. Got straight from the brewery but would buy more if available at stores!
Nov 23, 2025
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.87/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473ml can served cold into a pint glass. Purchase from the brewery. Canned August 15, 2025.
Appearance - Dark hazelnut brown color and capped with two plus fingers of long lived light tan head. Spidery lacing as a residual.
Smell - Earthy with some sharp pine notes, a pinch of citrus and general roastiness. Not the most intense but a nice wide range of aromas.
Taste - Some roastiness with a pinch of caramel sweetness, note of pine in the aftertaste. Medium bitterness. A touch of flowers as well, this beer truly is all over the place but in a good way.
Mouthfeel - Medium-full bodied, spritzy carbonation and mineral water like finish.
Overall - Pretty solid brown ale, not a style we see frequently so very happy that Blooming Bones is the representative to be offered.
Oct 07, 2025Appearance - Dark hazelnut brown color and capped with two plus fingers of long lived light tan head. Spidery lacing as a residual.
Smell - Earthy with some sharp pine notes, a pinch of citrus and general roastiness. Not the most intense but a nice wide range of aromas.
Taste - Some roastiness with a pinch of caramel sweetness, note of pine in the aftertaste. Medium bitterness. A touch of flowers as well, this beer truly is all over the place but in a good way.
Mouthfeel - Medium-full bodied, spritzy carbonation and mineral water like finish.
Overall - Pretty solid brown ale, not a style we see frequently so very happy that Blooming Bones is the representative to be offered.
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