Superb head and deep chocolate flavours. A decent american brown ale. Tasty smooth and enjoyable.

Can't think of any other brown ale than Newcastle Brown, but I am sure I've had at least one other. I used to like Newkie brown back in my teenage English ale days, good malt so I'm hoping this craft brown will be somewhat nostalgic and an improvement on Newkie brown. Guess what colour it is...🤭 But to be fair it is a little red and yeh it's murky pretty close to a Flanders Red actually in appearance. On the nose it's both sweet and dry, sweet Demerara sugar and then dry stout like malt. In the mouth it's thin and fairly carbonated, the malt is alot stronger than the aroma, imperial stout level of malt I'd say, very dark. The sweetness is even shorter lived, if there at all. As for the "light dry hop" I'm not really picking up much in the way of hops. I guess compared to a TDH TIPA there is nowt! Maybe a hint of hops in the very start of the tongue splash and very end of the finish, but there dark malts are so mega that it could be a placebo taste. Malt is something we miss with endless IPA and sours, only getting it from stouts on occasion or the odd malty west coast, so it's nice to have this for a change. No vanilla and chocolate of a stout and no cream of a milk stout. This was canned 15th of November so over a month ago and it's fine, can't imagine I'm missing out of anything, I doubt the hops would be shining much brighter behind a wall of malt.