The Golden Brown Dandy
The Dandy Brewing Company
- From:
- The Dandy Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 9.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 03, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 21, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A solid offering from a brewery I didn't know anything about! This definitely verges on a English Strong - lots of malt and toasting here. I will admit that this was my nightcap following an evening at Craft, so my taste buds were a bit fogged in. Definitely worth a second tasting - I love finding new beers, brewed close to home!
Mar 09, 2015
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bomber poured into a nonic. A cloudy bronze hue with three fingers of creamy, slightly sudsy foam. Aroma is strong orchard fruit preserve, apricot or peach perhaps, another sweet yet tannic note that recalls iced tea or gummy candy, gentle brown sugar, and a less gentle dry toasted nut bitterness. Rather flavorsome and I'd go so far to say bold, with an oat breakfast cereal (Cheerios) backbone somehow holding up lightly burnt brown sugar, sour fruit (green raisins? Unripe plums? Dried out limes?), sulphured molasses, and classic English "forest floor" hops. Modest carbonation and slightly thick body, slick and oiled with a tangy finish that features fruity green hops and dry biscuit in equal measure. Manages to cleave desperately to tradition while also blazing its own path. I appreciate such paradoxes. At risk of turning this review forum into a message board of sorts, I agree with the pale ale designation. It reminds me of some of the hoppier English examples such as Timothy Taylor's Landlord and falls a bit short of the malting I note in true ESBs. As the label suggests, this one defies a clean classification.
Jan 06, 2015
Reviewed by mattsander from Canada (AB)
3/5 rDev -18.3%
3/5 rDev -18.3%
First time trying this new Calgary brewery, 650ml bottle from Coop.
Pours golden brown (go fig), medium hazy, full bodied, lowish carbonation.
Aroma is cooked fruits (apple pie, apricot), toffee, herbacious, a bit papery, caramel
Tastes like lots of sweet cooked dark fruits, very toffee-caramel, with a long and kind of 'out of nowhere' bitter finish. For me this is a bit of a strange combo of herbal and fruity hops with a lot of sweet/nutty malt flavor, just a little too much going on.
Oct 20, 2014Pours golden brown (go fig), medium hazy, full bodied, lowish carbonation.
Aroma is cooked fruits (apple pie, apricot), toffee, herbacious, a bit papery, caramel
Tastes like lots of sweet cooked dark fruits, very toffee-caramel, with a long and kind of 'out of nowhere' bitter finish. For me this is a bit of a strange combo of herbal and fruity hops with a lot of sweet/nutty malt flavor, just a little too much going on.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, purchased at the sole (so far) Co-op liquor store in Edmonton - is this another one of those stupid 'Calgary-only' deals, that inevitably slips up because certain Calgary-based retailers have broader sales reaches?
This beer pours a murky, dark burnt caramel colour, with one flabby finger of wanly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent low-rising rocky shoreline lace around the glass as things readily recede.
It smells of bready, doughy caramel malt, meek oily citrus rind, oversteeped herbal tea, a touch of dead yeast, and earthy, floral hops. The taste is gritty, somewhat biscuity caramel malt, a further bit of watery toffee, understated leafy, citrusy hops, a small orchard fruitiness, and some subtle nutty, slightly boozed-up herbal notes.
The bubbles are fairly underwhelming in their outright schmoozing, but still do a bang-up support job, the body medium-light in weight, and so-so smooth, the yeast and heretofore unseen alcohol throwing some skin in the game. It finishes on a drying trend, the biscuity malt character and languishing fruity notes carrying the day.
A decent enough, if kind of innocuous English-style, well, something...yeah, I'm not grokking the EPA denomination that seems so prevalent in beer review circles - it's called 'Golden Brown', for starters, people! I'm getting much more of an ESB essence myself, the extra alcohol and heady biscuity notes going a long way in that respect. At any rate, this is a pleasant first contact for a nascent Alberta brewer - welcome!
Oct 08, 2014This beer pours a murky, dark burnt caramel colour, with one flabby finger of wanly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent low-rising rocky shoreline lace around the glass as things readily recede.
It smells of bready, doughy caramel malt, meek oily citrus rind, oversteeped herbal tea, a touch of dead yeast, and earthy, floral hops. The taste is gritty, somewhat biscuity caramel malt, a further bit of watery toffee, understated leafy, citrusy hops, a small orchard fruitiness, and some subtle nutty, slightly boozed-up herbal notes.
The bubbles are fairly underwhelming in their outright schmoozing, but still do a bang-up support job, the body medium-light in weight, and so-so smooth, the yeast and heretofore unseen alcohol throwing some skin in the game. It finishes on a drying trend, the biscuity malt character and languishing fruity notes carrying the day.
A decent enough, if kind of innocuous English-style, well, something...yeah, I'm not grokking the EPA denomination that seems so prevalent in beer review circles - it's called 'Golden Brown', for starters, people! I'm getting much more of an ESB essence myself, the extra alcohol and heady biscuity notes going a long way in that respect. At any rate, this is a pleasant first contact for a nascent Alberta brewer - welcome!
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.76/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bomber poured into tulip 29/9/14
A slight haze in a copper amber body, pin prick bubbles throughout, a finger of tan foam falls fairly quickly but even then it cakes my glass with lace, strange really how much lace gets left behind from no foam
S earthy, herbal hops, faint citrus and spice, lots of caramel and a little iced tea powder, some fruit I can't place
T more of the same, lots of English hops and toffee, leafy, herbal, not quite nutty but there's something I can't place
M leaning towards full, I can see lots of bubbles but it somehow feels a little flat, a little slick on the palate, herbal notes and a little spice linger
O I might have called this one an English Strong but lots of hops could suggest Pale I suppose. I had no idea what to expect and even though I think its a lame style of beer it was executed well and worth a try
Finally a Nano Brewery in Calgary, I don't have to drink shitty craft beer anymore, really though how did I have no idea these guys were brewing beer in my home town? I should pay attention to my surroundings more often.
Sep 30, 2014A slight haze in a copper amber body, pin prick bubbles throughout, a finger of tan foam falls fairly quickly but even then it cakes my glass with lace, strange really how much lace gets left behind from no foam
S earthy, herbal hops, faint citrus and spice, lots of caramel and a little iced tea powder, some fruit I can't place
T more of the same, lots of English hops and toffee, leafy, herbal, not quite nutty but there's something I can't place
M leaning towards full, I can see lots of bubbles but it somehow feels a little flat, a little slick on the palate, herbal notes and a little spice linger
O I might have called this one an English Strong but lots of hops could suggest Pale I suppose. I had no idea what to expect and even though I think its a lame style of beer it was executed well and worth a try
Finally a Nano Brewery in Calgary, I don't have to drink shitty craft beer anymore, really though how did I have no idea these guys were brewing beer in my home town? I should pay attention to my surroundings more often.
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