Big Brown Kat
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 8.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 10, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
In the grand scale of things Albertan, rivalries abound. Living in Red Deer, equidistant from the big cities, I tend to lean north when it comes to spectator sports. In terms of the great outdoors, southwestern Alberta is home for me. When it comes to beer, now, that is an interesting story. Big Rock was my first taste of craft beer, way back in the late 80s when I started going into the ALCB with my own ID. Alley Kat has not been around quite as long, but have surpassed Big Rock in terms of quality. Overall, this is a tasty beer. It looks good in the glass, pounces at your nose, and nuzzles your tastebuds. It's definitely more Kat than Big, which is a good thing. The finish is slightly disappointing because it lacks the "Northwest" hopping promised on the label. Either way, when Edmonton and Calgary can collaborate, good things can happen.
Dec 25, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, a collaboration between Alley Kat and their southern brewing neighbours in Calgary, Big Rock. Apparently this was made with a split between the two companies' yeast, half and half, although I have it on good authority that the Alley Kat strain 'won out' or was more assertive. Good.
This beer pours a clear, dark mahogany brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, duly foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered and streaky lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds away.
It smells of grainy, lightly doughy caramel malt, a soft biscuity breadiness, earthy yeast, muted black stone fruit, a pithy nuttiness, twinges of day-old coffee, and laid-back leafy, earthy, and mildly piney hops. The taste is semi-sweet, doughy caramel malt, sort of biscuity toffee, still hard to pin down dark fruity esters, meek cafe-au-lait, gritty baked nuts, and a still way too gentle earthy, weedy, and leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light on the palate, what with its easy-going frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a growing airy creaminess as things warm up a bit. It finishes well off-dry, the lingering sugary and caramelized malt very much sealing the deal with its own form of gusto.
Overall, not so surprisingly like a mix between Alley Kat's Amber, and Big Rock's Traditional Ale, with the former winning (as noted earlier) the yeast battle, and the latter pulling the hops down to its own dismal level. Not particularly difficult to put back, but for a purported 'Pacific Northwest' brown ale, this is just not bloody hoppy enough.
Nov 19, 2015This beer pours a clear, dark mahogany brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, duly foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered and streaky lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds away.
It smells of grainy, lightly doughy caramel malt, a soft biscuity breadiness, earthy yeast, muted black stone fruit, a pithy nuttiness, twinges of day-old coffee, and laid-back leafy, earthy, and mildly piney hops. The taste is semi-sweet, doughy caramel malt, sort of biscuity toffee, still hard to pin down dark fruity esters, meek cafe-au-lait, gritty baked nuts, and a still way too gentle earthy, weedy, and leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light on the palate, what with its easy-going frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a growing airy creaminess as things warm up a bit. It finishes well off-dry, the lingering sugary and caramelized malt very much sealing the deal with its own form of gusto.
Overall, not so surprisingly like a mix between Alley Kat's Amber, and Big Rock's Traditional Ale, with the former winning (as noted earlier) the yeast battle, and the latter pulling the hops down to its own dismal level. Not particularly difficult to put back, but for a purported 'Pacific Northwest' brown ale, this is just not bloody hoppy enough.
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