Top Five American Brown Ales

I would go with:
Upslope's Brown Ale
Dogfish Head's Indian Brown Ale
Kona's Koko Brown
Tommyknocker's Maple Nut Brown Ale
Shmaltz' s He'Brew Messiah Bold

 

While I'm pretty sure there's a list on here that's a consensus of BA communities top American Brown Ales, I'll give my opinion anyways. No particular order. 1. Rogue Hazelnut Nectar 2. Big Sky Moose Drool 3. Dark Horse Boffo Brown 4. Bell's Best Brown. 5. Smuttynose Old Brown Dog. I apologize if any of these are actually categorized as "English Brown Ales."

 

Man, I feel dumb. After reading them of the previous posts I can't believe I forgot about Sierra Nevada Tumbler. Great stuff.

 

DFH Brown!
Avery Ellie's!

 

Love New English Brewer”s Special Brown. But that’s a bit of a tease since it’s only distributed in SD. The brewer is a British ex-pat though and knows what the hell he’s doing.

 

Based on what I've had so far...
New Holland's Cabin Fever tops my list
DFH Indian Brown
Bell's Best Brown
Brooklyn Brown
Sierra Nevada's Tumbler

 

Foothills brews an in house Brown aged in Bourbon barrels, and it's terrific, does that count?

 

Hill Farmstead George takes the cake for me. After that:
Weyerbacher November
Smuttynose Old Brown
DFH Indian Brown
Moose Drool


For non traditional browns:
Founders Cashew Mountain
Funky Buddha Bonita Applebaum
DFH Palo Santo
JP Maracaibo

 

American/English/whatever...

DFH Indian Brown
DFH Palo Santo
CCB Bolita Brown
Pretty Things St Botolphs
Kuhnhenns Conundrum

 

Well these are another couple of your non-traditional brown ales, but still awesome beers (just my opinion)- Terrapin Hop Karma and CCB Cubano-style Espresso Brown Ale

 

nogne o imperial brown ale

 

I really would love to get some Moose Drool, and totally love St. Botolph's...

Dark Horse Bofo!! for more Brown love...

I want a brown ale now... or a measly one

 

Founders Frangelic Mountain Brown
Founders BB Sumatra Brown
Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar
DFH Palo Santo Marron
GI Christmas Ale

 

Palo Santo
Rogue Hazlenut
Moose Drool

Those are my top 3. I don't drink brown ales enough to have a real strong opinion on 5 of them.

 

Does the More Brown Than Black IPA collaboration count?

 

Why are people dismissing Palo Santo as a brown because of abv? Doesn't the high abv simply make it an imperial version of a brown but still a brown? Kinda like how Odell's Double Pilsner at 8.1% is still a pilsner, just an imperial version of it. Or am I missing something (certainly possible)?

 

You might want to check this out:

http://beeradvocate.com/lists/style/73

 

Man this is tough, if we're including non-traditional crazy shit my list would look like this...
CCB maduro (oatmeal raisin cookie)
Founders cashew mountain brown
DFH palo santo marron
Kona koko brown
CCB cubano-style espresso

 

Here's six:

DFH Palo Santo
DFH Indian Brown
Bear Republic Pete's Brown (Tribute Ale)
Lonerider Sweet Josie
People's Mr. Brown
Terrapin Hop Karma

 

Surly Coffee Bender
DFH Palo Santo
Smuttynose Old Brown Dog
Cigar City Maduro Brown
Rogue Hazlenut