English Brown Ale
Sea Change Brewing Co.

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From:
Sea Change Brewing Co.
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
English Brown Ale
ABV:
5%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.68 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jan 12, 2019
Added:
Jan 12, 2019
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.68/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at the brewpub in Edmonton's Argyle industrial zone.

This beer appears a mostly clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one rather skinny finger of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of dotted lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of grainy and biscuity cereal malt, some earthy nuttiness, plain pome fruity notes, and very faint leafy, weedy, and musty green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, oily bar-top nuts, a muddled dark orchard fruitiness, subtle black licorice root, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a good time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much holding all of the lingering cards.

Overall - yeah, this comes across as a dutifully rendered version of the old-school style, more sweet than bitter, and reminiscent of a craftier Newcastle. Worth checking out, especially if you are the opposite of the hophead who is currently typing this out in a busy taproom full of hipsters.
Jan 12, 2019