Brown Ale
Medicine Hat Brewing Company
- From:
- Medicine Hat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 1.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 04, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - the latest in their Brewmaster Series, this is apparently made in the 'northern English brown ale' style.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, and kind of meaty, bready and doughy caramel malt, some indistinct oily nuttiness, demarara sugar, musty medium chocolate, and some understated leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some subtle ashy roastiness, a still hard to identify, but heady all the same nutty character, bittersweet cocoa powder, ephemeral cafe-au-lait notes, and more tame earthy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a teensy airy creaminess peeking its nose in once the ambient temperatures become more agreeable. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, chocolate, and nutty essences winning the lingering day.
Overall - this comes across quite well in its attempt at focusing on a specific sub-region of brown ale. I can't say that I'm too familiar with this breakdown in English ales, but I have had Samuel Smith’s version, and I can say that this is very much akin to it, and that's a straight-up compliment.
Oct 24, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, and kind of meaty, bready and doughy caramel malt, some indistinct oily nuttiness, demarara sugar, musty medium chocolate, and some understated leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some subtle ashy roastiness, a still hard to identify, but heady all the same nutty character, bittersweet cocoa powder, ephemeral cafe-au-lait notes, and more tame earthy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a teensy airy creaminess peeking its nose in once the ambient temperatures become more agreeable. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, chocolate, and nutty essences winning the lingering day.
Overall - this comes across quite well in its attempt at focusing on a specific sub-region of brown ale. I can't say that I'm too familiar with this breakdown in English ales, but I have had Samuel Smith’s version, and I can say that this is very much akin to it, and that's a straight-up compliment.
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