Bennett's Brown
Situation Brewing

12oz sleeve at the brewpub. A 'Southern Brown Ale', which I presume refers to the old country.

This beer appears a clear, dark amber highlighted brown colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and rather creamy beige head, which leaves a splendid array of defrosting back windshield pattern lace around the glass as things slowly ebb away.

It smells of bready and doughy Alberta cereal malt, some sugary nuttiness, a hint of wispy smoke, faint black stone fruit esters, and an understated earthy, musty, and floral noble hoppiness. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, a mixed bowl of party-friendly nuts, some muddled plum and cherry aged fruitiness, and more sedate leafy, weedy, and musky floral hop bitters.

The carbonation is fairly mild in its ennui-inducing frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really making any sort of fuss at this point in the process. It finishes off-dry, the malt still large and in charge of the lingering space.

Overall - this seems to be a decent rendition of the sub-style (one with which I am admittedly less than familiar), nice and silken and all that. I know it's just a coincidence, but the smell of bacon that they're pumping out of the kitchen here works quite well with the liquid in front of me.