Coppersmith Brown Ale
Common Crown Brewing Co.

A- Love the new labelling on the can...very mid 1900's animation! The brew itself is dark brown in color, with a dark eggshell hued head that is creamy and retains fairly well, eventually settling down to a patchy film over top the brew. There is some creamy carbonation happening, with several columns popping around the top of the liquid. Lacing is modest with again, a creamy film coating the inside of the glass, before sly-ly sliding back towards its' home.

S- Subtle notes of coffee ground and dark chocolate are the primary aromas happening, with other smells of dark caramel/toffee like sweetness, some yeasty dark grainy bread and some sweet nuttiness that leans into candied almond more than anything....sweet yet with a clean robustness. Decent overall....

T- More of the same, carrying on from the aromas with more sweet caramel and/or toffee like malts, some milky yet charred chocolate, french press black coffee, even perhaps some chocolate covered coffee bean, vanilla smoothness, cooked brown sugars, some almond nuttiness and a finish that is slightly of charred Earth, black malt, and a hint of hop bitterness.

M/O- Smooth rich texture and the body would me more medium leaning, providing a robust mouthfeel overall....the carbonation is plentiful, yet velvety, allowing the flavors to fully coat the palate in full. The drinkability is high too, as I find that I would likely enjoy another one of these after the review here. I recommend this one and think it is a Canadian-ized version of a classic....perhaps a tad sweet but at the end of the day, nothing really wrong with it either....I'll have it again, especially if I visit the brewery!

 

355ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a very dark brown with half a finger of loose khaki head that leaves crumbling archway lace as it recedes.

Smells of slightly singed caramel, toasted mixed nuts, mild coffee and faint earthy hops.

Tastes of bready caramel malt, more nutty roastiness, creamy coffee and soft hoppy bitterness.

Feels soft and fluffy. Medium bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

355ml can - once again, another lazy-ass addition from so-called local 'members' here, who haven't the mere wherewithal to submit a review, or, Flying Spaghetti Monster in the Sky, a basic bitch rating in doing so. Pffff.

This beer pours a clear, very dark brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy and bubbly tan head, which leaves some old-school cascading lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.

It smells of grainy and gritty, pale and caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, bittersweet cocoa, cafe-au-lait, random bar-top nutty notes, and some rather tame earthy, leafy, and weedy green noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some still indistinct earthy nuttiness, a further untethered smokiness, wan bittersweet chocolate, and more weak leafy, earthy, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite plain in its quotidian frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with a very wee airy creaminess arising as I address my current state of inebriation. It finishes off-dry, the roasted malt taking the metaphorical reins, and the other sundry essences considering their own current states of affairs, as such.

Overall, this is a decent enough version of the English iteration of the style, wherein the various toasted malt essences assume the wheel, and don't let go of it until it's damned near too late. Especially good stuff, I would imagine, if Newcastle Brown Ale was yer starting point.