Your Favorite Brown Ales

Caribou Slobber

 

Samuel Smith Nut Brown (The OG)
Sierra Nevada Tumbler
Cigar City Maduro Brown

 

My experience with Brown Ales is limited. But, I really liked Bold City Duke's Cold Brown Nose. I know that it did not receive rave reviews on this site but I enjoyed it and it was very drinkable. I have also had Dogfish Raison D'Extra. From what I remember was I drank it too fast because it was very drinkable. Then I remember bed. I would definitely drink them both again and because of them I will try other brown's as I see them.

 

Thanks, after I posted it I saw it was labeled black ale on the bottle. Well it looks dark brown to me and is still very good!

 

I forgot how much I enjoyed Legend Brown Ale when I had one over the weekend

 

Shorts Good Humans
Shorts Bellaire Brown
Perrin Kona Brown

 

Big Sky Moose Drool
Surly Bender

 

DHF Indian Brown
Palo Santo
GI Nut Brown
Old Brown Dog

 

1: Hill Farmstead George
2: Smutty Old Brown Dog
3: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale

 

Ithaca Nut Brown Ale, a solid english brown ale. I'll admit, it's a bit elevated in my mind because it's one of my first and my Dad's favorite.

 

Rogue Hazelnut Nectar
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron
Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown
New Glarus Fat Squirrel

 

Looking at my reviews and ratings:

DFH Indian Brown
DFH Palo Santo Marron
Pensacola Bay Brewery Banyan
Noble Aleworks New Edition
Bell's Best Brown
Cigar City Maduro
Alesmith Nut Brown

 

Bender and Coffee Bender.

 

I won't lie, I steer clear of ordering brown ales these days just because of the tendency to aggressively hop them. I enjoy a nice, malty brown ale, but when there's stuff like the Carson's Brown Cow out there, where every description waxes poetic about seven types of malt with a "moderate hop presence" and all I can smell or taste in it is perfume...I tend to skip on to other parts of the beer list.

That being said, Samuel Smith's Nut Brown is one of the beers that introduced me to craft in the first place, and I still think it's pretty good today.

Triple Digit Chickow! is darned tasty, but it's definitely on the dessert beer end of the brown ale spectrum, being all sweetness, hazelnut, and chocolate. Like Nutella in a glass, with alcohol. The maple and coconut variants are pretty darned tasty, too.

 

Whitbread Double Brown. A lovely drop. Looking forward to finally trying Doctor Brown next month.

 

Being very hoppy works more for me with brown ales than other types of beer because they're inherently balanced by the maltiness.

 

I enjoyed SmuttyNose Durty when I had it last year. But Dogfishhead Indian Brown, SN Tumbler have to be in the top. But Sam Smith's tops all as far as holding a standard.

 

I enjoyed drinking the Yards Brewing cask version of the 1933 Whitbread Double Brown:

“Yards Double Brown: A clone of an ale brewed by Whitbread Brewery in 1933. It consists of English Maris Otter Malt, American 6-row and Chocolate malt. Following an English brewing tradition, caramel is added for flavor. Fuggles, East Kent Golding and Pilgrim hops lend an earthy flavor with a hint of lemon. 5.3%”

Cheers!