Urban Dark
Urban Alley Brewery
- From:
- Urban Alley Brewery
- Australia
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 04, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 26, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This refreshing malt forward ale has stunning flavours of caramel, toffee and chocolate. Reassuring with a gentle finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A pleasant purchase from the Victorian tourist token shop at Melbourne's airport. (Obviously, I'd already gotten thru Security.)
Urban Dark offers a big fluffy persistent head. Smells are more modest; mostly of sweet malt, chocolate variety and then adds a touch of butterscotch (brewer says "toffee.") Taste follows, but by the finish the hops linger nicely and still let the malt return for the final, albeit demur, say. Medium-mouthed and very soft for a soft style.
Paired excellent with a caramel chocolate biscuit served on my one hour flight to Sydney. Is it legal to bring your own beer on board.
My first from UAB, I went on their website and was impressed by how much they have grown in 7 years, a startup soon after Covid hit. UAB has three brewpubs, one helping regenerate the Docklands and the other two in the suburbs. While Urban Dark is a very good beer, UAB's focus seems to be experiential: creating good gathering spots and programming them. And for that strategy and, I presume, quality, I give them very good Overall Hugs.
Dec 04, 2025Urban Dark offers a big fluffy persistent head. Smells are more modest; mostly of sweet malt, chocolate variety and then adds a touch of butterscotch (brewer says "toffee.") Taste follows, but by the finish the hops linger nicely and still let the malt return for the final, albeit demur, say. Medium-mouthed and very soft for a soft style.
Paired excellent with a caramel chocolate biscuit served on my one hour flight to Sydney. Is it legal to bring your own beer on board.
My first from UAB, I went on their website and was impressed by how much they have grown in 7 years, a startup soon after Covid hit. UAB has three brewpubs, one helping regenerate the Docklands and the other two in the suburbs. While Urban Dark is a very good beer, UAB's focus seems to be experiential: creating good gathering spots and programming them. And for that strategy and, I presume, quality, I give them very good Overall Hugs.
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