The Convert
The Virginia Beer Company
- From:
- The Virginia Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 6.6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 5.67%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 21, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 07, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The Convert is a Hoppy Brown Ale, originally brewed for VBC's grand opening in March 2016! When working on test batches before VBC was even VBC, our future Brewmaster asked our co-founders if there were any beer styles that didn't excite them. One quickly noted that "Brown Ales aren't my thing" and thus, our Brewmaster quickly came up with a plan to brew a Brown Ale that would be "his style".
As such, The Convert was born! Carrying the deep copper colors and even-roasted notes of a traditional American Brown Ale, followed by a crescendo of hop bitterness from additions of Chinook & Columbus hops...including an out-of-character Columbus dry-hop...which blends perfectly with this medium-bodied recipe meant to cross styles and convince palates of the merits of a well-brewed and modern take on a Brown Ale.
As such, The Convert was born! Carrying the deep copper colors and even-roasted notes of a traditional American Brown Ale, followed by a crescendo of hop bitterness from additions of Chinook & Columbus hops...including an out-of-character Columbus dry-hop...which blends perfectly with this medium-bodied recipe meant to cross styles and convince palates of the merits of a well-brewed and modern take on a Brown Ale.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by oldn00b from Virginia
4.19/5 rDev +8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.19/5 rDev +8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Relatively typical brown ale.
Color is a turbid rust color. I dig the unfiltered approach in terms of what it brings to flavor and feel but beers like this don't look as appealing as their filtered cousins to me.
Nose is big cramel malt and a nice fruity hop presence.
Flavor is relatively typical brown ale but with a nice big hop presence balancing out the otherwise sweet malt bill. Personally I've become less a fan of the cloying brown ales and this one has a nice hop profile to offset the malty sweetness but the hops aren't overly bitter or brash - nice contrast and balance.
Apr 21, 2016Color is a turbid rust color. I dig the unfiltered approach in terms of what it brings to flavor and feel but beers like this don't look as appealing as their filtered cousins to me.
Nose is big cramel malt and a nice fruity hop presence.
Flavor is relatively typical brown ale but with a nice big hop presence balancing out the otherwise sweet malt bill. Personally I've become less a fan of the cloying brown ales and this one has a nice hop profile to offset the malty sweetness but the hops aren't overly bitter or brash - nice contrast and balance.
Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida
3.69/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured almost black body with minimal head and lace patches down the glass. Aroma seems to be more hoppy than malty as bits of bread and sweet malts are evident but not a strong presence. Fuller-bodied beer with a bit of bready feel, beer has notes of both dry, lightly roasted malts with a bitter hoppiness so beer finishes dry. Not as sweet as other brown ales that I prefer and a tad too hoppy for my liking; not a bad brown ale but just a little off and could use a few tweaks.
Apr 19, 2016
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